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William Mullins was a Mayflower passenger who died in the first harsh winter in the new colony; his daughter, Priscilla, went on to marry John Alden (now immortalised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s fantastically popular poem The Courtship of Miles…

Duxbury Hall was thought to be built on the same site as the birthplace of Miles Standish, whose imagined unrequited affection for Patricia Mullins was invented and immortalised by Longfellow. Duxbury Hall itself was to be the site of a visit by the…

Chatham, on the Medway in North Kent, was one of several towns and cities to undertake performances of the Mayflower Pageant written by the Rev. Hugh Parry (which you can learn more about here). Like many early twentieth-century pageants, Parry’s…