Daft Yorkshire Customs: A Collection of Curious Customs, Weird Traditions and Barely Believable Pastimes - Couverture rigide

McMillan, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1855682834 ISBN 13 : 9781855682832

Editeur : Dalesman Publishing Co Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Yorkshire is a county crammed full of curious customs, each more bizarre and barely believable than the last. Ian McMillan, the `Bard of Barnsley', has scoured the county to bring together this collection of Daft Yorkshire Customs, creating what folklore researchers have hailed as the definitive Yorkshire Map of Strangeness; all illustrated by award-winning cartoonist Tony Husband.

Discover the joys of being `bottyout' on Hebden Bridge Naked Monday; learn about the controversies surrounding Settle Whitewash Wednesday; sample the secret recipe for Elland Wellington Pie; marvel at the endurance needed to take part in Doncaster Sludge-Drinking Day; and find out the true identity of Warty Whipley, possessor of the Lucky Buttocks.

"A cornucopia of weird days and daft afternoons and evenings so odd you can hardly believe them yourself." Professor Walt Blenkinsop, Folklore Dept, Cleckheaton University.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ian McMillan hosts weekly hit radio show The Verb on Radio 3. He's Yorkshire Planetarium's Poet in Space, poet-in-residence for the Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC, Humberside Police's Beat Poet, Yorkshire TV's Investigative Poet and has been a regular on Newsnight Review, The Mark Radcliffe Show, The Today Programme, You & Yours, Any Questions, Quote Unquote, Just A Minute and Have I Got News For You? His rip-roaring poetry shows are legendary. Cats make him sneeze.
"One of my all-time heroes -- he's such a talented bloke, I could kill him." Mike Harding

Tony Husband, "legendary Private Eye cartoonist" (PR Weekly), has been awarded Strip, Gag & Sports Cartoonist of the Year no fewer than ten times by the Cartoon Arts
Trust. For his depiction of British life, he won the 2005 Pont Award given in memory of the great 1930s cartoonist. His new book is The World's Worst Joke. His cartoons appear regularly in The Times, Sunday Express, Golf International, the Oldie, Private Eye, the Spectator, Nursing Standard, TES, the Prescriber, Playboy and Punch. He has a weekly strip in his local paper, the Tameside Advertiser. He can also be found in Who's Who. Ian makes him sneeze.
"Tony Husband is even funnier than me." Griff Rhys Jones

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dalesman Publishing Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1855682834
• ISBN 13: 9781855682832
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Husband Tony
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible