Oldham wakes

Robert Poole

Oldham wakes

Robert Poole

University of Cumbria

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Leisure in Britain 1780-1939
Editors	John K. Walton, James Walvin
Place of Publication	Manchester, UK
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Pages	71-98
ISBN (Print)	071900912X
Publication status	Published - 1983

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Oldham wakes

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