You may have seen images or videos of people dancing around maypoles on May Day. Perhaps you've even found yourself twirling ...

May Day is celebrated annually on May 1. It is an ancient spring festival in many European cultures and a widely observed ...

Hemswell May Day celebrations date back to at least 1660, the village's committee says.

UK artist Linett Kamala was astonished to see a maypole in a Jamaican hamlet – a colonial relic, but one bringing joy. So she reinvented the tradition by ditching English folk tunes and adding bass ...

In a nod to the past — the very old past — the village of Orland Park hosted a May Day celebration Saturday. The spring celebration can be traced back to Roman times, but the village’s historical ...

With spring in full flow, we look back at how people in Bolton traditionally marked this time of year – from maypole dancing to ...

For more than 150 years Gawthorpe's maypole has anchored the village's May Day celebrations. But, with the pole showing its ...

Our resident investigator of Nottingham's weird history, Matthew Blaney, delves into the story of the Wellow Maypole...

Youngsters at an Oswaldtwistle primary school brought back a village tradition by dancing around the maypole. Pupils from Moor End Primary School, in White Ash Lane, had been learning how to work the ...

Today is Wednesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2025. There are 217 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed ...