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New Year Fire Customs

New Year Events

Twelfth Night / Plough Monday

Easter Monday & Tuesday / Hocktide

May Day or thereabouts

Oak Apple Day, 29 May

Spring Bank Holiday (Last Monday in May)

Customs that happen to be in May

Guy Fawkes Night / Bonfire Night

New Year’s Eve

Midsummer Fires

Christmas Decorations

Father Christmas / Santa Claus

Religion at Christmas

Christmas Music

Longsword Dancing on Boxing Day

Christmas & Boxing Day Games

Mummers / Nativity Plays

Christmas Trees and Greenery

Religious Customs

Remembrance / Memorials

Weddings & Funerals

Harvest Festivals

A Religious Miscellany

Love & Marriage

Luck & Superstition

Holy Wells / Clootie Wells

Religious Processions

Processional Dances

‘Cotswold’ Morris Dancing

North West Morris / ‘Clog’ Morris

Misc-morris Dancing

Longsword & Rapper Sword Dancing

Highland Dancing

An Assortment of Dances

Maypole Dancing

Processional Dances

Cries of London

Foodish Customs

Giving Thanks for Food

Doling out Food

Jack-in-the-Green, Green Men & Relations

Jack-in-the-Green

Relations of the Green Man

Imported Customs

Notting Hill Carnival

Chinese New Year

Other Imported Customs

The Tower of London

London Processions & Parades

London’s Fairs

London Sports & Games

Cries of London

London’s Imported Customs

A Miscellany of London Customs

The Pearly Kings & Queens

Beating the Bounds

Legal Processions

A Legal Miscellany

Mumming Plays at Christmas

Pace Egg Plays / Souling Plays

Pageants / Carnivals / Mystery Plays