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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Chester Historical Pageant
In the foreword to the Official Souvenir Book of the pageant, the Master of the Pageant, George Hawtrey, claimed that: ‘Of all the cities in England there is none that binds the life of to-day so c...
The Pageant of Empire
The Pageant of Empire took place over the course of a wet six weeks in July and August 1924 in the huge newly-constructed concrete Wembley Stadium. It was just one attraction of the monumental Brit...
Preston Historical Pageant
In the north of England in September 1922, all roads led to Preston as it welcomed visitors in their hundreds of thousands to its historic 'Gild [Guild] Festival', held over the second week of the ...

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 Place

Names of locations of pageants; doesn't include specific locales such as town square

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1 Wembley, Middlesex, England
1 Preston, Lancashire, England
1 Chester, Cheshire, England

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 Pageant Type

Type of social collective or organization a pageant was intended to celebrate

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2 town
1 london
1 empire

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Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Berry, A.J.

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Wrey, Sir Bourchier
1 Wade, F.C.
1 Stuart, J.
1 Struben, A.
1 Spurling, Claribel
1 Scott, Walter
1 Ross, E. Denison
1 Oman, Charles
1 Morris, Rupert
1 Milton, John
1 Macdonald, S.F.
1 Luffman, Captain
1 Lovell, A.E.
1 Kirwan, Patrick
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Hammersley-Heenan, Mr
1 Foster, William
1 Darbyshire, T.
1 Clay, Beatrice
1 Blankenberg, Lady
1 Berry, A.J.

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 Historical Figure

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

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2 Elizabeth I
2 Edward I
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Ælfthryth
1 Wykeham, William
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Wodelarke, Robert
1 Wilson, Allan
1 Wilfrid [St Wilfrid]
1 White, Sir Thomas
1 Waynflete [Wainfleet, Patten], William
1 Wakefield, William Hayward
1 Sutton, Sir Richard
1 Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
1 Stanley, Henry, fourth earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Edward, third earl of Derby
1 St Pol, Mary de, countess of Pembroke
1 Speke, John Hanning
1 Smythe [Smith], Sir Thomas
1 Smith [Smyth], William
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Shaka
1 Scott, Robert Falcon [known as Scott of the Antarctic]
1 Scoresby, William, junior
1 Roger the Poitevin
1 Roe, Sir Thomas
1 Rodney, George Bridges, first Baron Rodney
1 Richard II
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Rhodes, Cecil John
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Raffles, Sir
1 Radcliffe [née Sidney], Frances, countess of Sussex
1 Pope, Sir Thomas
1 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
1 Park, Mungo
1 Oswald [St Oswald]
1 Newland [Nailheart], John
1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
1 Morgan, Sir Henry
1 Mildmay, Sir Walter
1 Merton, Walter of
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Marconi, Guglielmo
1 Livingstone, David
1 Lancaster, Sir James
1 King James I
1 Kenneth II [Cináed mac Maíl Choluim]
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola]
1 Johnson, Samuel
1 Jervis, John, earl of St Vincent
1 James VI and I
1 Jahangir
1 Hudson, Henry
1 Howe, Richard, Earl Howe
1 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry VII
1 Henry VI
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Hawke, Edward, first Baron Hawke
1 Guy, John
1 Grosvenor, Sir Richard, first baronet
1 Grenville, Sir Richard
1 Grant, James Augustus
1 Gonville [Gonvile], Edmund
1 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
1 Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald de Barry]
1 George III
1 Fynn, Henry Francis
1 Franklin, Sir John
1 Flemming [Fleming], Richard
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eglesfield [Egilsfeld], Robert [Robert de Eglesfeld]
1 Edward [St Edward; called Edward the Martyr]
1 Edward IV
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Durham, William of
1 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
1 Dampier, William
1 Cromwell, Oliver
1 Cook, James
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Charles I
1 Cecil, Robert, first earl of Salisbury
1 Caxton, William
1 Cavendish, Thomas
1 Cameron, Sir Duncan Alexander
1 Caius [Kay, Key], Thomas
1 Cabot, Sebastian
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Byron, John, first Baron Byron
1 Brome, Adam
1 Boniface [St Boniface]
1 Blake, Robert
1 Bingham [Byngham], William
1 Beaufort, Margaret [known as Lady Margaret Beaufort], countess of Richmond and Derby
1 Bateman [Norwich], William
1 Balsham, Hugh of
1 Balliol, Dervorguilla de, lady of Galloway
1 Balliol [Baliol], John de
1 Baldwin [Baldwin of Forde]
1 Baffin, William
1 Avranches, Hugh d', first earl of Chester
1 Ascham, Roger
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Anselm [St Anselm]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alcock, John

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