British Popular Customs, Present and Past / Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People. Arranged According to the Calendar of the Year.

A month-by-month compendium of British popular customs, recording seasonal, religious, and domestic practices from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Entries provide concise descriptions of rituals—festivals, gift-giving, agricultural rites, and local amusements—alongside historical origins, folklore explanations, and regional variants, often supported by archival examples and contemporary anecdotes. The arrangement follows the calendar, noting movable feasts at their earliest dates, and aims to preserve vanished or fading observances through citations and transcribed accounts. Occasional editorial notes and sources accompany entries to contextualize practices and trace their development over time.