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Papers relating to the arrangements for the production and performance of the Latin Play. Includes cast lists, sketches and drawings for scenery, Epilogues and Prologues spoken at performances of the play and samples of programmes and tickets for the play. Also includes lists of names and addresses of individuals to receive tickets, production notes covering all aspects of rehearsal and performance and draft seating plans and arrangements for individual performances.

Includes designs and drafts of programme, draft text for programme, programme from Irish Georgian Society's 'Emerald and Gold Ball Celebrating 50 years', invoices and advertisements for programme.

Bound volume containing handwritten Prologues and Epilogues for productions of Latin Plays 1801-1808. Some entries also contain cast lists.

The sub-series contains indexes of names of those protesting against the discontinuation of the Latin Play, as well as correspondence on this subject. Some material has been taken from the A series. Where this is the case the previous reference number is given.

As part of the celebrations for the 450th Anniversary of Westminster School, a statue of Queen Elizabeth I was commissioned and unveiled by The Queen on 21st May 2010. Includes images, correspondence, press cuttings and notices about the development, assembling and unveiling of the statue.

Records and correspondence relating to research on the history of the Latin Play, and to the issue of its continuation. Includes articles and correspondence, and correspondence and records relating to protests made by parents and former pupils against the abolition of the tradition of the Latin Play.

This collection contains a variety of material relating to the School’s religious services, primarily focused on Westminster Abbey. There are orders of service from the annual School services held at the Abbey, as well as further material from Abbey events that were often attended by the School, although did not feature it in any prominent way. Finally there is a subsection for Funerals and Memorials, containing orders of service for people related to the School or the Abbey. Many, but not all, of these services were held in Westminster Abbey.

Research articles and correspondence concerning the history and background to the Latin Play.