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Connecting the Mayflower to popular history and literature, Marcus Huish, writing in 1907, provides an extract from George Elliot’s Mill on the Floss and a brief narrative of events relating to The Old Hall, Gainsborough: "'All down the middle ages…

Historical pageants, a form of largescale amateur historical re-enactment, had seen their heyday in the 1920s - some, such as Southampton's John Alden's Choice, had focused especially on the Mayflower. After the Second World War, with the rise of the…

Southampton’s most elaborate monument to the Mayflower voyage was erected in 1913. Standing on the Western Esplanade, chosen to be as near as possible to the point of departure, it consists of a Portland stone square column that rises fifty feet from…

The town of Romford to the east of London tried very hard indeed to find connections between itself and the Mayflower. It had its own Mayflower Tercentenary Committee, an affiliate of the Essex committee, whose job it was to organise tercentenary…

Marcus Huish, writing in 1907, provides a rather discerning appraisal of the state of Boston Town Hall which he laments is rented ‘to a dealer in second-hand furniture, the whole place being in consequence squalid and dirty’. Nonetheless, Elizabeth…

In a brief article entitled 'The Mayflower and All That' the Torbay Express and South Devon Echo reported on the festivities held in one of Devon's small boroughs, Totnes. There, the local townspeople dressed 'in Elizabethan rig' as part of the…

Bredon’s Norton was the site of an old Tudor manor house which became the setting for a highly successful and popular Mayflower celebration during the tercentenary year of the voyage in 1920. One of the primary reasons for its success was the…

Laurence Washington, who died in Maldon, Essex in 1652, was the great-great grandfather of George Washington. In 1924, Malden, Massachusetts was celebrating its 275th anniversary. Isaac Lothian Seymour, vicar of Maldon back in the ‘Old World’, was…

Well-attended meetings were held in the afternoon and evening at Clasketgate Wesley Chapel in Lincoln to mark the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage. Upbeat talks were given by the Revs. Walter H. Armstrong, F.J. Harvey, and F. Luke Wiseman,…

The World Evangelical Alliance’s Mayflower celebration in 1920 took place at London’s Queen’s Hall (no longer extant). The World Evangelical Alliance marked the sailing of the Mayflower as “a new epoch in the progress of religious liberty, which was…