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After the Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire in 1834, a Royal Commission was set up in 1841 to deal with the question of how to decorate the new palace (by then already under construction). A series of competitions and exhibitions of…

Following Mayflower events at the Wesleyan Chapel for the 300th anniversary, a “Mayflower sale of work” was held at the Newland Congregational Church with the aim of raising £500; £273 8s 5d was raised on the opening day alone. The opening of the…

Kenilworth was one of the great many towns that celebrated the Mayflower tercentenary in 1920 by holding a lecture. A lecture hardly seems like a celebratory event, but in fact a lecture on the story of the Pilgrim Fathers and their journey on the…

Tercentenary events took many forms, ranging from large-scale public entertainments, like pageants, to small-scale lectures held at chapels and churches. The latter events tended to be aimed at members of non-conformist communions, often under the…

Unlike its neighbours to the east and west, Southampton and Plymouth, Bournemouth could claim no special relationship to the Mayflower story. Nevertheless, the wide reach of the Free Church Council meant that Bournemouth too had an opportunity to…