Older Than deck / Events and discoveries
First Edinburgh Fringe shows
First performances
1947
Uninvited groups put on their own shows beside the new Edinburgh festival.
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Checked 2026-10-21: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“1947”Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
“1947”National Library of Scotland: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; server could not read it (0); not found by Codex
“1947”Equity: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
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