Month by month and day by day, The English Year guides you through the full calendar of English festivity, custom and celebration. Alongside national occasions such as New Year’s Eve, you’ll find the wonderfully eccentric particulars of regional life: the Padstow Hobby Horse procession, cheese rolling in Gloucestershire, Easter Monday bottle kicking in Leeds and much more besides — each explained in terms of its origins, meaning and place in the year.
Enthralling and richly detailed, this unique chronological portrait of English social customs and attitudes reveals just how deep — and how delightfully strange — our shared heritage truly is.
ISBN 13: 9780141021065
Author: Steve Roud
