Maypole dancing and May Day fairs still occur in towns and villages across the UK — some more elaborate than others. An old tradition you might like to revive is the anonymous May basket drop ...

These traditions famously provided inspiration ... Different European countries have very different May Day celebrations, but the best known in the UK are dancing around a Maypole, gathering ...

Mark Stoyle, a professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton, told the BBC why he thinks the tradition has "faded away". He said the exact origins of May Day were not known.

May 1, known as May Day, has long been celebrated as the midway ... Going back hundreds of years, communities in what is now the United Kingdom and Ireland celebrated the height of spring with ...

OLD traditions were re-lived in Burnley when children ... maypole dances while the boys pretended to be dancing bears -- a May Day custom from the first part of the 20th century which is believed ...

May Day is finally here — or, for the Neopagans and the Celts ... The festival is also sometimes known as Latha Bealltainn, or, in ancient Scottish, Bealltuinn. In ancient traditions, Beltane was ...