Traditions Collection (page 6)

Popular Healer
Madeleine, born in 1827, employed in a French chateau near Amiens, acquires a wide reputation for her healing skills based on old wives tales and traditions Date: circa 1880

Auld Lang Syne by Charles Robinson
Children sing Auld Lang Syne 1906

Hanging stockings by Charles Robinson
Children hang up Christmas stockings. Date: 1906

The yule log by Charles Robinson
A group of children pull in the yule log Date: 1906

Bringing Home Mistletoe by Charles Robinson
Bringing home bundles of mistletoe and holly. Date: 1906

Lord Mayors Show / Iln
The Lord Mayors procession entering New Palace-Yard Date: 1868

ST PAULs CATHEDRAL 1804
St Pauls Cathedral with the Lord Mayors Show on the water Date: 1804

Transporting the obelisk: procession for Cleopatras needle
The procession, on Lord Mayors Day, with Cleopatras Needle passing down Gracechurch Street, London. Date: August 1878

Butler & Boars Head
The butler bears in the Boars Head Date: circa 1900

A Lady Visitor
A lady comes visiting with packets and a bouquet of flowers Date: 1896

Midsummer customs in Sweden
Swedish countryfolk dance on Midsummers Eve by the light of the Midnight Sun. Date: 1901

Girl dressed for her first communion Date: late 19th century

Father Christmas for animals
The animals also have their Father Christmas Date: 1902

Father Christmas delivering Xmas presents
Father Christmas seems to have hidden his presents in the trees, but he hands them out to eager children Date: 1905

Swearing an Oath of Fealty to a young Lord
Oath of Fealty to a young Lord

Handing round the 12th cake by Charles Robinson
Handing round slices of the Twelfth-cake, for the twelfth day of Christmas. Date: 1906

Firing at the apple-tree in Devonshire
On the Twelfth Eve in Devonshire, it was custom for the farmer to leave his warm fireside accompanied by a band of rustics with guns and blunderbusses, goto the orchard

The coaching club drive from Hyde Park to Ranelagh
A traditional sight of the London summer Season, the Coaching Club (and often the Four-in-Hand club) setting off horse-drawn carriages from Hyde Park, destined for exclusive sporting club, Ranelagh

Making the Christmas plum-pudding 1850
Mother making Christmas plum-pudding, with her children trying to get a taste. Date: 1850

The Royal Robing Room Reintated
The Royal Robing-Room in the Palace of Westminster restored to its use as the room in which the Sovereign prepares for ceremonial occasions at the Houses of Parliament

LORD MAYORs / HARPER S
The Lord Mayors Show processes along the Thames

Cornish Gorsedd, Sword of Arthur, St Just, Cornwall
The Cornish Gorsedd, a community of modern-day bards, taking part in the Sword of Arthur ceremony at St Just in Cornwall. The Gorseth Kernow (Gorsedd of Cornwall)

Crying the Neck at Gulval, Cornwall
A man in the village of Gulval near Penzance, Cornwall, in September 1984, following the harvest tradition of Crying the Neck

Cornish Gorsedd, Sword of Arthur, Cornwall
The Cornish Gorsedd, a community of modern-day bards, taking part in the Sword of Arthur ceremony at St Just in Cornwall. The Gorseth Kernow (Gorsedd of Cornwall)

Buddhist Monk at Wat Phan Tao Temple holding candle during Loy Krathong in Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: 2014

Cartoon, In the trench, WW1
Cartoon, In the trench, showing four French soldiers in a trench on the Western Front at night, sharing pieces of a New Year cake, or Galette. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Epiphany cakes, WW1
Cartoon, This year its our turn to give out Epiphany cakes. French soldiers offer traditional galette cakes or other appropriate items to friends, enemies and neutrals. Date: 1916

The Lord Mayor of Londons Banquet
The Lord Mayor of Londons banquet at the Guildhall showing the procession of the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress with the chief guests and the Lady Mayoresss maids of honour. Date: 1904

Crowds gather to watch the annual Lord Mayors show, London
Boys clamber on Cleopatras needle in order to get a better view of the Lord Mayors Show procession as it passes down the Embankment. Date: 1900

Seals relating to the City of London
In honour of the 700th anniversary of the London Mayoralty, a page dedicated to the various seals of the City of London including the first seal of the Mayoralty of the City of London with St

The making of the Lord Mayor
Scenes relating to the Lord Mayors Show in London, showing the dragon emblem of the City of London, the Lord Mayors chair

Elephants at The Lord Mayors Show, passing Temple Bar
A procession of elephants pass Temple Bar during the Lord Mayors Show in London. Date: 1876

The Lord Mayors Show
Marking the territorial army jubilee at the Lord Mayors Show in London. Among other scenes: a tableaux depicting the history of the territorial army

The Lord Mayors Show during the First World War
The Lord Mayors Show during World War I showing captured German guns, an aeroplane of the RFC, and contingents representing Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies

Guildhall banquet on the evening of the Lord Mayors Show
The Guildhall banquet on the evening of the Lord Mayors Show in London: the Lord Mayor and cabinet ministers speaking at the high table. 1913

Dragon procession, China
Dragon procession in a rural area, China, on a Church Missionary Society postcard. Date: circa 1910s

Illustration depicting a fandango (traditional music and dance). France. Romanticism. Engraving. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Theatre Museum

Carlos Juliao (1740-1814). Coronation of a king in the celebrations of Kings, Brazil, 18th c. Costumbrism. Watercolour

ALLARD L OLIVIER, Fernand (1883-1933). Colonial Africa. Belgian Congo (1908-1960). Kabinda village orchestra. 1926. Watercolour

The Flying Pole. 2nd half 17 c. Viceroyalty of New Spain. Panel screen with genre scenes. Lower detail with pulque drinkers and fight. Mexican School. Oil on canvas. SPAIN

BARAHONA, Mateo de (second half 17th century). Tarasca, mythological monster, during the festival of Corpus in Madrid, 1663. Gothic art. Mixed technic. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid

CHERET, Jules (1836-1932). Advertising of restaurant Taverne Olympia in Paris. Printed in 1899. Poster (119 x 81 cm.). Contemporary Art. Litography

Painted page from Torah, 18th century. Jewish Traditions and Rituals. Textiles. ISRAEL. JERUSALEM. Jerusalem. Israel Museum

Marriage contract (ketubbah) between Abraham, son of Mussa and Yahya Salem al-Cohen al- Araqi, and Rumiyyeh, daughter of Abraham Salem al-Sheikh al-Levi. Sana a, Yemen, 1794

ROMERO, Jos頍ar�Women from Cadiz
ROMERO, Jos頍 aric (1815-1880). Women from Cadiz on the balcony. mid. 19th c. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. Private Collection

DORɬGustave. L Espagne
Dore, Paul Gustave (1832-1883). L Espagne. 1874. Majos and Majas returing the from the Feria del Rocio. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

Jewish Torah scroll
A Jewish Torah scroll. Date: 1920s

People at the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem. Date: 1920s

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