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St. Albans Pageant, 1907: Queen Elizabeth at Gorhambury.

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The York Pageant
Louis Napoleon Parker, the acknowledged inventor of modern historical pageantry, chose to end his career as a pageant master in 1909. His final performance as a director of a large-scale pageant wa...
Historical Pageant at Drum Castle
Drum Castle was described as being 'the Glydebourne of the North' when a pageant was staged there in August 1951.52 With only two performances—a matinee and a repeat showing in the evening—the page...
Pageant of Inverness
There have been few historical pageants in the Parkerian tradition staged in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and the pageant of Inverness held in 1951 is by far the most significant of this sma...
Pageant of Angus History
Pageants, though they outwardly celebrated the importance of the past, nevertheless did sometimes take place because of an underlying worry that memories and knowledge of history and traditions wer...

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1 York, Yorkshire, West Riding, England
1 Inverness, Highland, Scotland
1 Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland
1 Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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2 town
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1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Mitchell, H.L.
1 Groves, John F.
1 Babington, Mrs

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Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Wilkinson, K.E.T.
1 Terry, J.E. Harold
1 Rhoades, James
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 MacDougall, Margaret O.
1 Bruce, George

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 Composer

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1 Tendall, G.F.
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Noble, T. Tertius
1 Gray, Alan

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 Historical Figure

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4 Robert I [Robert Bruce]
4 Graham, James, first marquess of Montrose
2 Mary [Mary Stewart]
2 James VI and I
2 Douglas, Sir James [called the Black Douglas]
1 Ívarr [Ívarr inn Beinlausi, Ingwaer, Imhar]
1 Æthelstan [Athelstan]
1 Æthelred I in Oswulf
1 Ælfflæd [St Ælfflæd, Elfleda]
1 Áedán [St Áedán, Aidan]
1 Wulfstan
1 Wortley, Sir Francis, first baronet and royalist army officer
1 William of York [St William of York, William fitz Herbert]
1 William le Gros, count of Aumale and earl of York
1 William I [known as William the Lion]
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror] of England and duke of Normandy
1 William Herbert, second earl of Pembroke
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Wenlock, John, first Baron Wenlock
1 Wemyss, David, styled sixth earl of Wemyss [known as Lord Elcho]
1 Waltheof, earl of Northumbria
1 Wallace, Sir William
1 Victoria
1 Venutius
1 Valence, Aymer de, eleventh earl of Pembroke
1 Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert and diplomat
1 Tostig, earl of Northumbria
1 Thurstan York
1 Thornborough, John
1 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
1 Thomas [Thomas of Bayeux, Thomas York]
1 Sutton, John diplomat
1 Stuart, James, fourth duke of Lennox and first duke of Richmond
1 Stuart [Stewart], Ludovick, second duke of Lennox and duke of Richmond
1 Stewart, James, first earl of Moray
1 Stewart, Alexander, duke of Albany and rebel
1 Stephen
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir John
1 Siward, earl of Northumbria
1 Sir William Sinclair
1 Sir Richard Tempest
1 Shipton, Mother
1 Sheridan, Thomas [Jacobite Sir Thomas Sheridan, baronet]
1 Seton, Sir Alexander
1 Septimius Severus, Lucius
1 Seagrave [Segrave], Nicholas
1 Scrope, Richard
1 Scrope, John, fifth Baron Scrope of Bolton
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Rotherham [Scot], Thomas York
1 Ros, Thomas, ninth Baron Ros
1 Richard [Richard
1 Richard III and lord of Ireland
1 Richard II and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Queen Æthelburh
1 Pole, John de la, earl of Lincoln and rebel
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Percy, Henry, ninth earl of Northumberland
1 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
1 Percy, Henry Algernon, sixth earl of Northumberland
1 Paulinus [St Paulinus] of York and of Rochester Paulinus
1 Parr, William, marquess of Northampton
1 Oswiu [Oswy] Northumbria
1 Ostorius Scapula, Publius
1 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Neville, John, Marquess Montagu
1 Nechtan mac Derile
1 Mylne, Walter
1 Murray, Sir John, of Broughton, baronet [called Secretary Murray, Mr Evidence Murray]
1 Murray, James, Jacobite first earl of Dunbar
1 Murray, Andrew
1 Murdac, Henry archbishop of York
1 Mowbray, Thomas first duke of Norfolk
1 Mowbray, Sir Roger de
1 Morcar, earl of Northumbria
1 Montagu, Edward, second earl of Manchester
1 Monro, Robert
1 Melville, Andrew
1 Melton, William
1 Maule, James, fourth earl of Panmure
1 Maudeleyn, Richard
1 Mary Seton
1 Mary Livingston
1 Mary Fleming
1 Mary Beaton
1 Margaret [St Margaret]
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Malet, William
1 Malebisse [Malebysse], Richard
1 Malcolm III [Mael Coluim Ceann Mór, Malcolm Canmore]
1 Lindsay, David, Lord Edzell
1 Lindsay, Alexander, fourth earl of Crawford
1 Lee, Edward York
1 Knox, John
1 Ker, Robert, first earl of Roxburghe
1 Keith, Sir Robert
1 Katherine [Catherine; née Katherine Howard] Henry VIII
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola] of Britain
1 Johnstone, James [known as Chevalier de Johnstone]
1 John [John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 John [John de Balliol]
1 John Harrington, fourth Baron Harrington
1 James VI and I England, and Ireland
1 James IV
1 James II and VII
1 James II
1 James Francis Edward [James Francis Edward Stuart; styled James VIII and III; known as Chevalier de St George, Pretender, Old Pretender]
1 Jaffray, Alexander
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Howard, Thomas, third duke of Norfolk
1 Howard, Thomas, second duke of Norfolk
1 Hotham, John
1 Home, Alexander, first earl of Home
1 Hild [St Hild, Hilda]
1 Henry VIII and Ireland
1 Henry VI and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke] of Aquitaine
1 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France] Charles I
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Hadrian [Traianus Hadrianus]
1 Graham, John, first viscount of Dundee [known as Bonnie Dundee]
1 Gospatric, earl of Northumbria
1 Glemham, Sir Thomas
1 Fitzwilliam, William, earl of Southampton administrator
1 Fitzalan, Thomas, fifth earl of Arundel and tenth earl of Surrey administrator
1 Fitzalan, Richard fourth earl of Arundel and ninth earl of Surrey
1 Fairfax, Thomas, third Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Fairfax, Ferdinando, second Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Erskine, John, seventeenth or first earl of Mar
1 Erskine, John, of Dun
1 Erik Bloodaxe [Eiríkr Blóðöx, Eiríkr Haraldsson]
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart] electress palatine, consort of Frederick V
1 Edward, styled earl of Warwick
1 Edward [Edward of Westminster], prince of Wales
1 Edward [Edward of Middleham], prince of Wales
1 Edward IV
1 Edward III and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon] of Aquitaine
1 Edmund I
1 Edgar, James
1 Edgar Ætheling or after 1125)
1 Ecgfrith
1 Ecgberht [Egbert]
1 Eborius
1 Eanflæd [St Eanflæd] Northumbria, consort of King Oswiu
1 Ealdred [Aldred]
1 Ealdgyth [Aldgyth]
1 Eadwine [St Eadwine, Edwin]
1 Eadberht [Eadbert]
1 Dormer, Robert, first earl of Carnarvon
1 Devereux, John, Baron Devereux and royal councillor
1 Despenser, Hugh, the younger, first Lord Despenser
1 Darcy, Thomas, Baron Darcy of Darcy rebel
1 Darcy, Sir John administrator
1 Curll, Walter
1 Courtenay, Thomas, fourteenth earl of Devon
1 Cope, Sir John [Jonathan]
1 Constantius I [Flavius Valerius Constantius; called Constantius Chlorus]
1 Constantine I [Flavius Valerius Constantinus; known as Constantine the Great]
1 Constable, Sir William, baronet
1 Constable, Sir Robert
1 Comyn, Sir John, lord of Badenoch
1 Comyn, Sir John [called Sir John Comyn the Competitor, Red Comyn], lord of Badenoch
1 Comgall mac Sétnai
1 Columba [St Columba, Colum Cille]
1 Colmán [St Colmán]
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig] of the Rhine
1 Charles II Scotland, and Ireland
1 Charles I Scotland, and Ireland
1 Charles Edward [Charles Edward Stuart; styled Charles III; known as the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie]
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne royalist army officer
1 Cartimandua [Claudia Cartimandua, Julia Cartimandua] of the Brigantes
1 Carnegie, David, first earl of Southesk
1 Carausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Caracalla [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus]
1 Campbell, Katherine, countess of Crawford
1 Campbell, Archibald, seventh earl of Argyll
1 Butler, James, first earl of Wiltshire and fifth earl of Ormond
1 Brus [Bruce], Robert
1 Brude mac Bile [Bridei son of Beli]
1 Brude [Bridei] mac Maelchon
1 Brown, John
1 Brittany, John of, earl of Richmond and administrator
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk and soldier
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk
1 Bowes, Sir Robert
1 Booth [Bothe], William
1 Boniface [St Boniface]
1 Bohun, Humphrey de, fourth earl of Hereford and ninth earl of Essex
1 Bohun, Humphrey
1 Bertie, Robert, first earl of Lindsey
1 Bek, Antony
1 Beaufort, Thomas, duke of Exeter
1 Beaufort, John, marquess of Dorset and marquess of Somerset and administrator
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, twelfth earl of Warwick
1 Beauchamp, John, first Baron Beauchamp of Powick
1 Beaton [Betoun], David
1 Bardolf, Thomas, fifth Baron Bardolf
1 Aske, Robert
1 Arundel [Fitzalan], Thomas archbishop of Canterbury
1 Anne [née Anne Neville]
1 Anne [Anne of Bohemia]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark] of James VI and I
1 Allectus
1 Alexander III
1 Alexander II
1 Alcuin [Albinus, Flaccus]
1 Agilbert Saxon

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