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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Kingston Church Pageant
The author of the Kingston Pageant, W.E. St Lawrence Finny, went even further than the great Pageant Master, Louis Napoleon Parker, who famously avoided the Civil War so as not to offend political ...
The Pickering Pageant (or Historical Play)
Pageants were very popular in the North Riding of Yorkshire, as in other parts of the country, before the First World War. Thirsk staged a ‘historical play’ in 1907; York in 1909; and Scarborough ...

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 Place

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

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1 Pickering, Yorkshire, North Riding, England
1 Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England

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 Pageant Type

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

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1 town
1 london
1 church

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Hudson, Gilbert
1 Finny, W.E. St Lawrence

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Whitehead, James D.
1 Wells, M.E.U.
1 Waring, George
1 Manners, Mary E.
1 Loy, Eva E.
1 Kitching, Mrs R.
1 Jones, David E.
1 Hudson, Gilbert
1 Goldsbrough, Albert
1 Finny, W.E. St Lawrence
1 Cooper, Wilhelmina

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 Composer

Includes names of composers at time of pageants, original composers, and those who did arrangements

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2 German, Edward
1 Parry, Hubert
1 Jones, David E.
1 Huntley, G.F.
1 Dussek, Ronald
1 Alderson, Percy

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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 John
2 Isabella [Isabella of France]
2 Henry I
1 Æthelwulf
1 Ælfgifu [Ælfgifu of Northampton]
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
1 St Christopher
1 St Catherine of Alexandria
1 Richard II
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Matilda [Matilda of Flanders]
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Leland, John
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola]
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 Henry of Lancaster, third earl of Lancaster and third earl of Leicester
1 Henry of Lancaster [Henry of Grosmont], first duke of Lancaster
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry II
1 Giffard, William
1 Gerard
1 George [St George]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince] prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback]
1 Edmund [St Edmund]
1 Ecgberht [Egbert]
1 Eadwig [Edwy]
1 Dunstan
1 Despenser, Hugh, the younger, first Lord Despenser
1 Despenser, Hugh, the elder, earl of Winchester
1 Clifford, Rosamund [called Fair Rosamund]
1 Cedd [St Cedd]
1 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
1 Baldock, Robert

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