{"id":458,"date":"2016-06-01T09:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.dur.ac.uk\/theatrum.mundi\/?page_id=458"},"modified":"2017-11-02T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:43:36","slug":"top-ten-north-east-traditions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/?page_id=458","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Forgotten North East Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Durham Miner’s Gala, by paul-simpson.org [CC BY 2.0<\/a>], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p><\/div>From the annual Durham miner’s gala to egg jarping in Peterlee, the North East has several\u00a0old customs and festivals\u00a0that are celebrated to this day. However, many other regional traditions are now forgotten. Here is a list of the top ten North East traditions and events<\/a> from the past that you may not have heard of before, as\u00a0uncovered by the project:<\/p>\n

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  1. Dancing with Oxen<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Durham’s Boy Bishops<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Mother Naked<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Rotten Ridiculous Robes<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Slaying the Sockburn Worm<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. The Big Minstrel Gig<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. The Dance of Death<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. The Hell Mouth<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. The Man-Eating Dragon of Durham<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. The Oldest Play from Britain<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From the annual Durham miner’s gala to egg jarping in Peterlee, the North East has several\u00a0old customs and festivals\u00a0that are celebrated to this day. However, many other regional traditions are now forgotten. Here is a list of the top ten North East traditions and events from the past that you may not have heard of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P67HiV-7o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}