Oldham wakes

Poole, Robert ORCID logo 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. Full text not available from this repository.

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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
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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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