Includes index.

Introduction: persistence and change in nineteenth-century popular culture / Robert D. Storch -- The decline of the oral tradition in popular culture / David Vincent -- Methodism, popular beliefs and village culture in Cornwall, 1800-50 / John Rule -- 'Please to remember the fifth of November': conflict, solidarity and public order in southern England, 1815-1900 / Robert D. Stoch -- The Lancashire wakes in the nineteenth century / John K. Walton and Robert Poole -- Interpreting the festival calendar: wakes and fairs as carnivals / Douglas A. Reid --Secrecy, ritual and folk violence: the opacity of the workplace in the first half of the nineteenth century / Clive Behagg -- Custom, capital and culture in the Victorian music hall / Peter Bailey