A re-enactment of the speech by Queen Elizabeth I at Tilbury before the Spanish Armada. Postcard, ca. 1929.

Date:
[between 1925 and 1929?]
Reference:
2042947i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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A re-enactment of the speech by Queen Elizabeth I at Tilbury before the Spanish Armada. Postcard, ca. 1929. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A re-enactment of Queen Elizabeth's speech to the English land forces assembled at Tilbury in preparation for repelling the expected invasion by the Spanish Armada, showing a man in drag as the Queen on horseback in a procession of men. This is a commercial postcard printed for the Aldershot Tattoo in the late 1920s.

Publication/Creation

Aldershot ; London ; Portsmouth : Gale & Polden Ltd, [between 1925 and 1929?]

Physical description

1 postcard : offset-lithographic print ; 8.7 x 13.8 cm

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Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "As all roles in the tableaux were performed by service personnel, (and women had no recognised permanent role in the British Army until as late as 1949), the role of Queen Elizabeth in this particular tableau had to be taken by a man."
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Wellcome Collection 2042947i

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  • Military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag

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