Trends in the commercialization of English calender customs : a preliminary survey / J. D. A. Widdowson -- It's an ancient custom but how ancient? / E. C. Cawte -- Up helly-aa : a Shetland fire festival / Venetia Newall -- Bulls ballads minstrels and manors : some observations on the defence of custom in eighteenth-century England / Bob Bushaway -- Tales my mother told me : the relevance of oral history / Gillian Bennett -- Dressing the part : the role of costume as an indicator of social dynamics in the Castleton Garland ceremony / Georgina Boyes -- The Abingdon morris and the election of the mayor of Ock street / Keith Chandler -- Annual well dressing : another brilliant success : finest work for many years (by our own correspondent) / Charlotte A. Morgan -- Guy Fawkes : who celebrated what? A closer look at 5th November in the light of Captain Swing / Robert Gifford -- Dorset garland days on the Chesil coast / Peter Robson -- Fact and fiction in Tennyson's May queen and in Flora Thompson's May Day / Roy Judge

"papers .. are drawn from the Calendar Customs Conference organized by the Folklore Society and English Folk Dance and Song Society in September 1984"--p. [7]