"The English Year" is a lavishly illustrated month-by-month, day-by-day guide to all the customs and festivals of England, from the national celebrations to herald the new year down to small local traditions such as the Minehead Hobby Horse or Duck Racing in Oxfordshire. If you want to know where you can get free bread and beer on any day of the year; if you want to know where Mayday comes from or why you should protect yourself on Mischief Night; or why the English go in for all kinds of arcane celebrations but can't be bothered with St George's Day - this the book for you.
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Steve Roud has been researching British folklore for over thirty years. He is the joint author of the Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore and the author of The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland, winner of the 2004 Katharine Briggs Folklore. He lives in Sussex.
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New Year's Day has always been rife with meaning for the superstitious person, and the potential problems start the moment the clock has struck midnight. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scrambling customs, tourney horse, garland custom, penny hedge, candle auctions, mock mayors, ashen faggot, straw bear, plough play, bonfire boys, hare pie, visiting customs, dumb cake, blazing tar barrels, horn fair, hiring fairs, mumming plays, horn dance, oyster fishery, calendar customs, penny loaves, direct survival, rough music, sword dancers, beating the bounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
May Day, Good Friday, Shrove Tuesday, Twelfth Night, Christmas Day, Easter Monday, Lord Mayor, Christmas Eve, Palm Sunday, Second World War, Plough Monday, Father Christmas, Mischief Night, William Hone, Ascension Day, Royal Oak Day, All Souls, Guy Fawkes Night, May Queen, Spring Bank Holiday, Merrie England, Mothering Sunday, Samuel Pepys, Santa Claus, Ash Wednesday New!
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New Year's Day has always been rife with meaning for the superstitious person, and the potential problems start the moment the clock has struck midnight. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scrambling customs, tourney horse, garland custom, penny hedge, candle auctions, mock mayors, ashen faggot, straw bear, plough play, bonfire boys, hare pie, visiting customs, dumb cake, blazing tar barrels, horn fair, hiring fairs, mumming plays, horn dance, oyster fishery, calendar customs, penny loaves, direct survival, rough music, sword dancers, beating the bounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
May Day, Good Friday, Shrove Tuesday, Twelfth Night, Christmas Day, Easter Monday, Lord Mayor, Christmas Eve, Palm Sunday, Second World War, Plough Monday, Father Christmas, Mischief Night, William Hone, Ascension Day, Royal Oak Day, All Souls, Guy Fawkes Night, May Queen, Spring Bank Holiday, Merrie England, Mothering Sunday, Samuel Pepys, Santa Claus, Ash Wednesday New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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