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The English Year

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141021065

  • Length: 688  Pages

  • Dimensions: 200mm x 32mm x 135mm

  • Weight: 464g

  • RRP: £14.99

The English Year

This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year’s Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow Hobby Horse procession, cheese rolling in Gloucestershire and Easter Monday bottle kicking in Leeds, it explains how they originated, what they mean and when they occur.

A fascinating guide to the richness of our heritage and the sometimes eccentric nature of life in England, The English Year offers a unique chronological view of our social customs and attitudes

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141021065

  • Length: 688  Pages

  • Dimensions: 200mm x 32mm x 135mm

  • Weight: 464g

  • RRP: £14.99

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About the Author

Steve Roud

Steve Roud recently retired from his position as Local Studies Librarian for the London Borough of Croydon and has served as Honorary Librarian of the Folklore Society for over fifteen years. He has been researching British folklore for over thirty years and is the joint author of the Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore. His other books include the Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland, which won the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award in 2004, Monday's Child is Fair of Face ... and other traditional beliefs about babies and motherhood and The English Year, a month-by-month guide to festivals. He also compiles the Folk Song Index and the Broadside Index, two internationally acclaimed computer databases of traditional folk and popular song.

Steve Roud

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