In Northwold at a lovely low-key event for their annual blessing of the plough. We processed behind the plough following Morris dancers and music to arrive at the church ready for its blessing. God Speed the Plough ! #ploughmonday #tradition #backtowork #folklore #morrisdancing
January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
In Northwold at a lovely low-key event for their annual blessing of the plough. We processed behind the plough following Morris dancers and music to arrive at the church ready for its blessing. God Speed the Plough ! #ploughmonday #tradition #backtowork #folklore #morrisdancing
It was #ploughmonday yesterday & I forgot to tell you all that I wrote a piece for the January issue of BBC Countryfile magazine all about it, with recipe for #ploughpudding
January 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM
It was #ploughmonday yesterday & I forgot to tell you all that I wrote a piece for the January issue of BBC Countryfile magazine all about it, with recipe for #ploughpudding
January 13, 2026 at 5:10 PM
I was busy editing yesterday and forgot about Plough Monday! The start of the agricultural year when everyone got back to work after the Christmas festivities. This window is at St Mary’s Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
January 13, 2026 at 7:55 AM
I was busy editing yesterday and forgot about Plough Monday! The start of the agricultural year when everyone got back to work after the Christmas festivities. This window is at St Mary’s Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
Stained Glass, 1903 by Arthur Joseph Dix (1861-1917) at St Michael Penkridge.
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
January 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Stained Glass, 1903 by Arthur Joseph Dix (1861-1917) at St Michael Penkridge.
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
Miss Julia White learnt to plough with horses, aged 40, from Jack Tucker in wartime, in the fields I know & love. I learnt (in theory) from her words, & as I recreated & reanimated them, & walked those furrows. Here’s an extract & a song for #PloughMonday from #GhostsoftheFarm, & a photo of Jack 1/4
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Miss Julia White learnt to plough with horses, aged 40, from Jack Tucker in wartime, in the fields I know & love. I learnt (in theory) from her words, & as I recreated & reanimated them, & walked those furrows. Here’s an extract & a song for #PloughMonday from #GhostsoftheFarm, & a photo of Jack 1/4
Today is #PloughMonday and here are Molly Dancers outside Holy Trinity Church in #Cambridge.
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Today is #PloughMonday and here are Molly Dancers outside Holy Trinity Church in #Cambridge.
Plough Witches and Mumpers in Peterborough. Peterborough Advertiser 1899. #PloughMonday
January 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Plough Witches and Mumpers in Peterborough. Peterborough Advertiser 1899. #PloughMonday
From the Peterborough Advertiser, 1911. This memory came from an interview with Mrs Lemmon of Whittlesey. She was born in 1820! #PloughMonday
January 12, 2026 at 6:08 PM
From the Peterborough Advertiser, 1911. This memory came from an interview with Mrs Lemmon of Whittlesey. She was born in 1820! #PloughMonday
Today is the first Monday after epiphany and marks the traditional start of the agricultural year and known as #PloughMonday. Our favourite Hilda Zigomala depicts ploughing in Lombardy from 1909
January 12, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Today is the first Monday after epiphany and marks the traditional start of the agricultural year and known as #PloughMonday. Our favourite Hilda Zigomala depicts ploughing in Lombardy from 1909
Today is #PloughMonday. Thomas Tusser called it one of the feasts 'belonging to the plough' that employers in #earlymodern England should never forget.
Here I explore these holidays where work & play mingled: how the festive shaped #labour relations.
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Here I explore these holidays where work & play mingled: how the festive shaped #labour relations.
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‘The Ploughman’s Feasting Days’: Festive Work Relations in Thomas Tusser
Originally posted on the University of Exeter’s History of Economy Research Blog on 23 February 2021. This blog post explores the relationship between work and festivity (and play more genera…
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January 12, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Today is #PloughMonday. Thomas Tusser called it one of the feasts 'belonging to the plough' that employers in #earlymodern England should never forget.
Here I explore these holidays where work & play mingled: how the festive shaped #labour relations.
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/f...
Here I explore these holidays where work & play mingled: how the festive shaped #labour relations.
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/f...
'God Speed the Plough!' it's #PloughMonday today, when the ploughmen, having had their ploughs blessed on the Sunday, would go out a-visiting round the houses - but here's a ploughman at work at Ebrington, #Gloucestershire, by Christopher Webb, 1964.
January 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
'God Speed the Plough!' it's #PloughMonday today, when the ploughmen, having had their ploughs blessed on the Sunday, would go out a-visiting round the houses - but here's a ploughman at work at Ebrington, #Gloucestershire, by Christopher Webb, 1964.
Some old plough drawings I did a while ago for #PloughMonday. All are early tractor-drawn ploughs. The first one was at Carreg Cennen castle in Wales, t'others at the east Kent Museum of Farming. All drawn with Rotring pens.
#PenArt #drawing
#ArtYear
#PenArt #drawing
#ArtYear
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Some old plough drawings I did a while ago for #PloughMonday. All are early tractor-drawn ploughs. The first one was at Carreg Cennen castle in Wales, t'others at the east Kent Museum of Farming. All drawn with Rotring pens.
#PenArt #drawing
#ArtYear
#PenArt #drawing
#ArtYear
Today is #PloughMonday - the traditional day when our rural ancestors would celebrate going back into the fields after the end of the Christmas celebrations. Find out more about how Plough Monday is celebrated with our guide:
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Today is #PloughMonday - the traditional day when our rural ancestors would celebrate going back into the fields after the end of the Christmas celebrations. Find out more about how Plough Monday is celebrated with our guide:
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
Today's the day - back to the fields/the concrete jungle. At this rate, we'll need to have a lie down 😴
#PloughMonday #January
#PloughMonday #January
#LegendaryWednesday the first Monday after Twelfth Day was Plough Monday, the start of the agricultural year. An old rhyme urged tenant farmers to return to the fields to prepare spring crops: "Plough Monday, next after that Twelfth tide is past/Bids out with the plough, the worst husband is last"
January 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Today's the day - back to the fields/the concrete jungle. At this rate, we'll need to have a lie down 😴
#PloughMonday #January
#PloughMonday #January
#PloughMonday is upon us once more as another agricultural year begins.
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Let us hope the weather is kind and the harvests are bountiful.
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Let us hope the weather is kind and the harvests are bountiful.
January 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
#PloughMonday is upon us once more as another agricultural year begins.
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Let us hope the weather is kind and the harvests are bountiful.
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Let us hope the weather is kind and the harvests are bountiful.
January 12, 2026 at 1:28 PM
The Blessing of the Plough
With dances and songs by Handsome Molly
Plough Monday
12 January 2026
6:30 pm
Trinity Church
33 Mercer Street
Princeton, New Jersey
@karanslade.bsky.social, Officiant
#PloughMonday
With dances and songs by Handsome Molly
Plough Monday
12 January 2026
6:30 pm
Trinity Church
33 Mercer Street
Princeton, New Jersey
@karanslade.bsky.social, Officiant
#PloughMonday
January 12, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The Blessing of the Plough
With dances and songs by Handsome Molly
Plough Monday
12 January 2026
6:30 pm
Trinity Church
33 Mercer Street
Princeton, New Jersey
@karanslade.bsky.social, Officiant
#PloughMonday
With dances and songs by Handsome Molly
Plough Monday
12 January 2026
6:30 pm
Trinity Church
33 Mercer Street
Princeton, New Jersey
@karanslade.bsky.social, Officiant
#PloughMonday
Today is Plough Monday, a traditional day of farm workers parading to be given extra money, and also of blessings of ploughs and Morris dancing
#ploughMonday
#ploughMonday
January 12, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Today is Plough Monday, a traditional day of farm workers parading to be given extra money, and also of blessings of ploughs and Morris dancing
#ploughMonday
#ploughMonday
I love this time of year! Wassailing, Plough Monday and the Straw Bear all fantastic traditions from the old agricultural calendar. #PloughMonday #StrawBear
January 12, 2026 at 11:24 AM
I love this time of year! Wassailing, Plough Monday and the Straw Bear all fantastic traditions from the old agricultural calendar. #PloughMonday #StrawBear
It was a bright and frosty Plough Monday and the air was sweet with birdsong. The farmers, old and bark-worn, young and bright-eyed, from every farm and gainery around the village and the hamlet had paid their visits to Old Fox's cottage.
They bade Old Fox a solemn good morning & winked at Wolf,
They bade Old Fox a solemn good morning & winked at Wolf,
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 AM
It’s #PloughMonday & here is Julia White’s 1st plough. She pioneered farming 1941-1955, & with her farmer-partner Doris, pulled the plough up the church aisle to be blessed each year. I’m grateful I got to tell their story, & laugh with, listen to, & interrogate their ghosts. #GhostsoftheFarm
January 12, 2026 at 9:01 AM
It’s #PloughMonday & here is Julia White’s 1st plough. She pioneered farming 1941-1955, & with her farmer-partner Doris, pulled the plough up the church aisle to be blessed each year. I’m grateful I got to tell their story, & laugh with, listen to, & interrogate their ghosts. #GhostsoftheFarm
January 12, 2026 at 8:57 AM
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM