Featured Pageants
Throughout our project, we have regularly published a closer look at one of the many pageants we have been researching under the title Featured Pageants. Each of these provides more information, including images and related ephemera, and builds upon the information in our Pageants Database.
To discover some of the stories behind the pageants, and to view some wonderful and evocative images of this incredibly popular phenomenon, explore the links to our Featured Pageants below. We will continue to add to this page, so do keep an eye on our Twitter feed for new Featured Pageants.
- The St Albans Pageant (1907)
- St Albans Pageant 1953: A Masque of the Queens (1953)
- Noel Streatfeild’s Historical Pageants
- Pooh at the Pageant. The Ashdown Forest Pageant (1929)
- Chilham Castle Pageant 1946
- Arundel Historical Pageant 1923
- The Pageant of Birmingham 1938
- The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Historical Pageant of 1935
- A Festival of Border History: the Carlisle Pageant, 1951.
- A Grand Celebration of Border History: The Carlisle Great Historical Pageant.
- The Historic Pageant of Mount Grace Priory (1927)
- Stepney Children’s Pageant, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 4th-20th May 1909 – The first of its kind
- Edmund of Anglia, 1970
- The Bury St Edmunds Magna Carta Pageant 1959
- The Pageant of Bury St Edmunds 1907
- Scarborough Historical Pageant and Play 1912
- ‘Not for Glory, Nor for Wealth…For Freedom!’: The Arbroath Abbey Pageant, 1949… and a few other Arbroath pageants…
- The Aberystwyth and Cardiganshire Peace Pageant of 1935
- Helmsley Festival Play 1951
- The Story of the West: A Pageant of the Britons, the Vikings, the Traders and the Clans (Glasgow 1928)
- The Scottish Historical Pageant 1927
- The Greenwich Night Pageant 1933
- ‘Essentially an historical play’: Berkhamsted pageant play, 1922
- The Pageant of Ayrshire 1934
- The Thirsk Historical Play of 1907
- The Hertford Pageant of 1914
- The Bradford Pageant of 1931
- The Leicester Pageant of June 1932
- The Warwick Pageant of 1906
- The Sherborne Pageant 1905
- St Albans 1948: an austerity pageant
- The Chelsea Historical Pageant 1908