Poole, Robert
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9613-6401
(1983)
Oldham wakes.
In: Walton, John K. and Walvin, James, (eds.)
Leisure in Britain 1780-1939.
Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, pp. 71-98.
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Abstract
The wakes holiday was in origin a religious festival, probably grafted on to earlier pagan observances by the early Christian missionaries. Taking place on the anniversary of the dedication day of a church, which was usually also the day of its patron saint, this essentially lower-class festival survived attacks by the puritans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to become part of the eighteenth century's flourishing calendar of customary leisure.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| ISBN: | 071900912X |
| Departments: | Academic Departments > Institute of Arts (IOA) > Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Insight Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2010 16:18 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2024 17:15 |
| URI: | https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/714 |
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