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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Dover Pageant
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Pageant of a Thousand Years of the Church of Barton, 669 to 1672
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Pageant of Runnymede
In 1921 there had been outcry when the government attempted to sell Runnymeade Meadow for development, the proposal only being averted when the civil engineer Urban Broughton bought the land. His w...
Time and the City: A Pageant Play
St Albans had staged three historical pageants, in 1907, 1948 and 1953. In 1968 an indoor ‘pageant play’ was staged, with three performances on the stage of the recently built City Hall, which coul...
Chilham Castle Pageant
The pageants that were held immediately after 1945 were suffused with the weight of the war just past. Chilham Castle is a large Tudor-style manor house that lies between Ashford and Canterbury in ...

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1 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
1 Egham, Surrey, England
1 Dover, Kent, England
1 Chilham, Kent, England
1 Barton-Upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, England

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5 town
1 national
1 church

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1 Swinson, Arthur
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Mobbs, Miss
1 Lally, Gwen
1 Craig, Edith

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 de Chair, Somerset
1 Varah, William E.
1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Swinson, Arthur
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Rhoades, James
1 Radice, Fulke
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Malory, Thomas
1 Lally, Gwen
1 Home, Gordon
1 Geddes, H.R.
1 Drinkwater, John

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1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Tidnam, J. Edis
1 Taylor, H.J.
1 Swinson, Arthur
1 Gibbons, Orlando
1 Darewski, Hermann

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Includes any figure with listing in ODNB, important foreigners (eg. Julius Caesar), mythological and fictional characters

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5 Langton, Stephen
5 Henry VIII
3 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
3 Marshal, William
3 John
3 Fitzwalter, Robert
2 Wells, Hugh of
2 Mary I
2 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
2 Charles V
2 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
2 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Wulfhere
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Warenne, William
1 Vespasian [Titus Flavius Vespasianus]
1 Vescy [Vesci], Eustace de
1 Vere, Robert de, third earl of Oxford
1 Tyrwhitt [Tirwhit], Sir Robert
1 Tresilian, Sir Robert
1 Theodore of Tarsus [St Theodore of Tarsus]
1 Temple, Sir Richard, third baronet
1 Stigand
1 Stafford, Ralph, first earl of Stafford
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 Seymour, Charles, sixth duke of Somerset
1 Seymour [née Percy], Elizabeth, duchess of Somerset
1 Scott [Scot], Thomas
1 Robinson, Luke
1 Richard II
1 Rich, Henry, first earl of Holland
1 Pole, Michael de la, first earl of Suffolk
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Peter [Peters], Hugh
1 Pencester [Penchester, Penshurst], Sir Stephen of
1 Pagham, John of
1 Offa
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Mowbray, William de
1 Mortimer, Roger
1 Montgomery, Bernard Law [known as Monty], first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Monck [Monk], George, first duke of Albemarle
1 Mogg, Mary [Molly]
1 Mare, Thomas de la
1 Longespée [Lungespée], William
1 London, Henry of [Henry de Loundres]
1 Lacy, John de, third earl of Lincoln
1 Kéroualle, Louise Renée de Penancoët de, suo jure duchess of Portsmouth and suo jure duchess of Aubigny in the French nobility
1 Katherine [Catherine; née Katherine Howard]
1 Jones, Inigo
1 John II
1 Joan [Joan of the Tower]
1 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
1 Jeune, Francis Henry, Baron St Helier
1 Hilary
1 Henry V
1 Henry II
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Gwyn, Eleanor [Nell]
1 Gumble, Thomas
1 Grimston, Sir Harbottle, second baronet
1 Gray, Walter de
1 Grant, Anthony
1 Godwine [Godwin], earl of Wessex
1 Godolphin, Sidney, first earl of Godolphin
1 Giffard, Walter
1 Geoffrey fitz Peter, fourth earl of Essex
1 Gay, John
1 Gant, Gilbert de, earl of Lincoln
1 Forz [Fortibus], William de, count of Aumale
1 Fordham, John
1 Fairfax, Thomas, third Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Eustace
1 Erasmus, Desiderius
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince]
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
1 Digges, Sir Dudley
1 David II
1 Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex
1 Cowper, Francis Thomas de Grey, seventh Earl Cowper
1 Courtenay, William
1 Coppock, James
1 Clarke, Sir William
1 Clarges, Sir Thomas
1 Clare, Richard de, sixth earl of Gloucester and fifth earl of Hertford
1 Clare, Gilbert de, fifth earl of Gloucester and fourth earl of Hertford
1 Clare, Gilbert de [called Gilbert the Red], seventh earl of Gloucester and sixth earl of Hertford
1 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Cheyne, Sir Thomas
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charles VI
1 Charles II
1 Charles I
1 Ceadda [St Ceadda, Chad]
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Bohun, Jocelin de
1 Bohun, Henry de, first earl of Hereford
1 Bell, Jacob
1 Beckett, Edmund [formerly Edmund Beckett Denison], first Baron Grimthorpe
1 Beaumont, Sir Henry de
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, eleventh earl of Warwick
1 Austen, Jane
1 Aubigny, William d' [William de Albini], third earl of Arundel
1 Arthur
1 Anne [Anne of Bohemia]
1 Anne

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