2021 REF

This site is a snapshot edition of The Redress of the Past - Historical Pageants in Britain taken on 02.12.2020 for the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission - implemented by King’s Digital Lab.

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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Pageant of Thornhill
The Pageant of Thornhill was an elaborate example of a post-war village pageant. It was one of the last pageants performed in West Yorkshire after the fiasco of the Bradford Centenary Pageant (1947...

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Pageant Type: Village

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1 Dewsbury, Yorkshire, West Riding, England

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1 Village

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1 Nutall, B.H.
1 Coney, H.R.H.

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1 Pobjoy, H.N.

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1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Sullivan, Arthur
1 Pobjoy, Rev. H.N.
1 Parry, Hubert
1 Morley, Thomas
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Gilbert, W.S.
1 German, Edward
1 Gay, John

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1 Savile, Sir William, third baronet
1 Savile, Sir George, eighth baronet
1 Savile, George, first marquess of Halifax
1 Rotherham [Scot], Thomas of York
1 Priestley, Joseph and natural philosopher
1 Paulden, Thomas army officer
1 Osberht
1 How, William Walsham of Wakefield
1 Herschel, William and astronomer
1 Fairfax, Ferdinando, second Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Cavendish, Henry philosopher

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