A Podcast discussing the social history of the Pageants in Arbroath and how the Festival drew on this history in 2020 and 2021. Featuring speakers including Dr Linda Fleming, Dr Angela Bartie & Mark Freeman from The ReDress of the Past project with Dorothy Howarth and artist Mandy McIntosh.
In the conversation the speakers trace and discuss the social history of the Pageants in Arbroath and how the Festival drew on this history in 2020 and 2021.
To learn more about the history of Pageantry in the UK and a thorough history of each Pageant in Arbroath, visit The Redress of the Past website www.historicalpageants.ac.uk
The Podcast was recorded in July 2021 and was directed and edited by Cicely Farrer at Hospitalfield and presented by Kirsten Wilson at Hospitalfield.
This podcast is part of an online series titled The Making of a Pageant: 1947-2005 which has been made possible with funding from the National Heritage Lottery Fund. The partner on this Podcast is The AHRC funded Project The Redress of the Past
The materials gathered for this online series were gather with support of members of the Arbroath local community and the AngusALIVE Archives.
While listening to the podcast, we invite you to browse some of the photos from the historic Pageants in Arbroath and the 2021 Festival to.
Agnes Muir McKenzie dmiring the costumes from the Pageants in the 1950s 
A display of the costumes in the 1950s 
A newspaper clipping from the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath Pageant performance in 1951 from Picture Post 
A float from the Arbroath Pageant Street Parade showing a scene of the Crowning of Robert the Bruce 
The Women’s Institute Float at the 1951 Arbroath Abbey Pageant Street Parade 
Jim McGugan as Robert The Bruce on Horse Back, 1981. Courtesy of Ian Lamb. 
A horse in the 1990s by Lesley OThomas 
1999, Robert the Bruce, Proclamation, 1999. Courtesy of Ian Lamb. 
2021: A photograph by Neil Hanna of the Clattering Cavalry made by Mandy McIntosh 
For the Pageant for Gallivants Town Trail, the Woolly Workers have created a fantastic large-scale knitted outdoor public sculpture: Abrinca the Unicorn. Neil Hanna Photography 
Arbroath Festival Flags on the High Street designed by Dundee Print Collective. Photo by Neil Hanna Photography