#52 Folk Festivals (Part 2)

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday!This week we’re darting around folk festivals from history to learn their strange traditions; we’ll be heading to Lincolnshire to learn about the Haxey Hood, to Gloucester for the Cheese Rolling and finally off to America to learn of the once enormously popular phenomenon of Horse Diving.And was telly better when it ended around midnight and signed off with the national anthem? The answer is yes, so don’t add to that debate. But if you’ve got anything else you can email: hello@ohwhatatime.comIf you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to part two this is folk festivals part one was yesterday let's crack on with it Now there was some footage that came out a few years ago. I mean it's
0:18.0	now there was some footage that came out a few years ago. I mean it
0:22.2	it shocked it shocked everyone who saw it. It was of the
0:25.1	royal Shrove tide football which is a game of medieval football played in Ashbourne in
0:30.5	Derbyshire. Now I've been aware of medieval football for a quite long time.
0:35.6	There was that the BBC did a documentary called Kickin and Screaming, which is about the history
0:39.8	of football, but it didn't start with like you know the formation of the FAA and
0:43.7	football being codified in the 18 in 1863 it was it they started with the sort of
0:48.4	medieval versions of the sport and they showed a version of medieval football that was being played in Scotland I think it was like the yuppies and the duneys and they do an encumbria
0:59.2	There's a Westwalian version called krapan that I remember seeing on the news in the 1980s I don't know if it's
1:05.9	still happening I wouldn't be surprised if it still was but the one I'm going to be talking about is the
1:09.8	one that happens in the Lincolnshire Village of Haxie because it comes alive in Johnny Re each year.
1:15.1	Normally on 12th night, Haxie is in Lincolnshire and they play Haxie Hood.
1:20.1	Now it's essentially a variant of folk football and it's... When say 12th night you mean the 12th night of Christmas? Yes, yeah yeah
1:26.8	So they reckon it's been going for about 700 years there are newspaper accounts from at least the 1830s and those
1:34.6	describe it as a custom of some age. There's a description published in 1815 which
1:39.0	marks on the prize the first person who can convey it, that's the hood, into the cellar of any public house receives
1:46.2	a reward of one shilling.
1:48.9	Now all these games, they all vary in their own sort of unique ways. Now I think the difference with the one that happened in Ashbourne in Darbyshire was that it was so violent.
1:59.0	So I will never forget seeing a bloke in a high-vis jacket wearing work boots kicking
2:04.5	someone's head in outside super-drug it is an absolutely incredible thing to
2:09.2	see yeah yeah yeah they're just stomping on some poor blood.
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