The Inlendish Folk Project
A year of keeping the English year as it was kept — the feasts and fasts, the seasonal work, the rites of the parish and the household — from Hallowtide 2026 to Hallowtide 2027. Twenty-six pieces, one a fortnight, published to the calendar rather than to a schedule of my own devising.
The kalendar of the year
Hallowtide
- 31 Oct
- All Hallows' Eve
- 1 Nov
- All Saints
- 2 Nov
- All Souls
- 11 Nov
- Martinmas
Advent
- 22 Nov
- Stir-up Sunday
- 29 Nov
- Advent Sunday
- 13 Dec
- St Lucy
Christmastide
- 25 Dec
- Christmas Day
- 6 Jan
- Epiphany
- 11 Jan
- Plough Monday
- 17 Jan
- Old Twelfth Night
Candlemas to Lent
- 2 Feb
- Candlemas
- 9 Feb
- Shrove Tuesday
- 10 Feb
- Ash Wednesday
Lent and Easter
- 7 Mar
- Mothering Sunday
- 25 Mar
- Lady Day
- 26 Mar
- Good Friday
- 28 Mar
- Easter Day
Summer
- 1 May
- May Day
- 6 May
- Ascension
- 16 May
- Whitsunday
- 24 Jun
- Midsummer
Harvest
- 1 Aug
- Lammas
- 14 Sep
- Holy Rood Day
- 29 Sep
- Michaelmas
- 31 Oct
- Hallowtide again
Feasts in red are red-letter days; the rest are black-letter. The distinction is the Prayer Book's own, and this site keeps it. Dates are given New Style unless marked Old.