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Historical pageants, a sort of amateur re-enactment, were incredibly popular forms of engagement with the past in the early to mid 20th century. They usually took the form of a series of chronological episodes, often starting as far back as the…

The Liberty department store on Great Marlborough Street, today Grade II* listed, opened in 1924. After the First World War there was often a desire, despite a growing enthusiasm for Modernism in some quarters, to return to the stability of…

Written by Canon Leville Lovett and his daughter Myra, ‘John Alden’s Choice’ was the crowning glory of Southampton’s 1920 celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower. Staged four times by a large cast of 444 amateur…