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The Pageant of London was a gigantic and spectacular historical re-enactment in four parts, staged 120 times over the summer of 1911. Linked to the Festival of Empire and Coronation of King George V, it was the biggest and boldest of the pageants of…

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…

The 88th annual assembly of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1920 occasioned a talk given by Rev. A.E. Garvie, Principal of New College, London (later part of the University of London’s theology faculty). Garvie reflected on 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…