This article explores the employment and adaptation of imperial ideas and imagery in the civic performance and presentation of Hull, the East Yorkshire port city, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing, in particular, on the opening ceremony of a new dock in June 1914 - organised around the procession of King George V and the Queen-consort Mary - the article contests that imperial discourses were adapted for use in the local context during this period. At a time when the British empire was widely seen to require renewal, following military mistakes in South Africa and growing economic and naval competition with Germany and North America, civic performances such as dock openings provided a means for the presentation of the provincial city to a national and, potentially, international audience. They were also an opportunity to present an image of a still robust and powerful empire. Opening ceremonies provided local political and business elites with a stage for situating the city within the broader structures of empire, conferring, in concert with the approval of the Crown, an association with imperial grandeur and socioeconomic innovation.

本文探讨了帝国思想和意象在 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初东约克郡港口城市赫尔的市民表演和展示中的运用和改编。特别关注 1914 年 6 月新码头的开幕仪式——围绕国王乔治五世和王后玛丽的游行组织——文章争辩说，帝国话语在这一时期适用于当地情况。在人们普遍认为大英帝国需要重建的时候，继南非的军事失误以及与德国和北美日益激烈的经济和海军竞争之后，码头开放等公民表演提供了一种手段，可以将这座省级城市展示给公众。国内和潜在的国际观众。它们也是展示一个仍然强大而强大的帝国形象的机会。开幕式为当地的政治和商业精英提供了一个舞台，让他们在更广泛的帝国结构中定位这座城市，在皇室的批准下，赋予与帝国宏伟和社会经济创新的联系。