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  1. Bruce Sex-Centenary Pageant: Masque of Edinburgh
    When plans were discussed by Edinburgh's city council for celebration of the six-hundredth anniversary of the granting of Edinburgh's royal charter, there was every intention to make sure that a la...

  2. The Masque of Ancient Learning and Its Many Meanings
    Despite the publicity which attended this pageant and the high profile of its chief proponent— Patrick Geddes—there is a great deal about it which remains stubbornly opaque. For example, although i...

  3. Sir Walter Scott Centenary
    There were so many events taking place in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Sir Walter Scott that it is not surprising that most passed without much fanfare. However, this part...

  4. The Scottish People: A Masque of Sir Walter Scott's Characters
    Across Scotland in 1932, all major cities and many towns, particularly those in the Borders, held some form of occasion to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Walter Scott. Ho...

  5. Dean Village Pageant
    The pageant took place alongside a fete.

  6. Pageant of Newhaven
    This was a small-scale wartime pageant, staged sometime in 1944. It was held to coincide with the centenary of the Victoria Primary School. Its focus was the history of the port and fishing village...