Pancake Day: history and folk traditions

Описание: Join me as I make pancakes and chat about the history and folklore of Pancake Day in Britain.

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Books and sources:

Thomas Thiselton-Dyer, British Popular Customs Past and Present

Ronald Hutton, Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain

Ben Gazur, A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food

Steve Roud, The English Year

Buckton, Henry. Yesterday's Country Customs: A History of Traditional English Folklore

The Olney Pancake Race: http://olneypancakerace.org/and-the-w...

The Atherstone Ball Game: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c...

Image credits:

Olney Pancake Race 2009: Robin Myerscough, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Atherstone Ball Game 2012: Adrian Roebuck at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Pancake Bell, Church of St Crux, York: Malcolmxl5, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Football match on Shrove Tuesday 1846 in Kingston on Thames, Surrey, England, from 100 years of Football - The FIFA Centennial Book, author unknown: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Pancake Bakery: Pieter Aertsen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Float at the Rio Carnival: Agência Brasil Fotografias, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Children from Caernarfon collecting for the Guy in 1962 – “Ceiniog I’r Hen Guy” means “Penny for the Guy”: Geoff Charles, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

The George Wassail 2013: The George Wassail by Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Tossing the pancake: Charles Keene, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Oswestry Wesley Guild’s pancake special: Geoff Charles, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Annual Ledgemoor Pancake Race by Philip Pankhurst, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Ledgemoor Pancake Race 2019 - 3 by Philip Pankhurst, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Screenshot from 1988 Jif Lemon advert via    • Jif Lemon Juice Pancake Day Advert Woman 1988  

Other photos author’s own