Abstract
The article examines several South Yorkshire mining townships' customary feast celebrations and reveals how local calendar customs can be used to uncover information about social relations and contemporary perceptions of community belonging. The contests fought to gain temporal control of the feast celebrations are considered. By the late I870S, the South Yorkshire feasts were under attack from rational recreationalists who were intent on replacing the bawdy, bacchanalian aspects of the celebrations with more ‘respectable’ temperate activities. The article reveals the threats made to the continuing existence of the feasts at the end of the I9th century and examines how far popular customary resistance succeeded in defending the feasts. The study also demonstrates how such local calendar customs played a significant part in developing local allegiances in rapidly growing industrial settlements with a high migrant population.
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