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

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 ...

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

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

There's a call for help to preserve the future of Gawthorpe's maypole tradition.

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 ...

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 ...

Schoolgirls dance around a maypole in the schoolyard of Wilmington's Gregory School, 1960, as other children watch.

I suppose you could dance around a maypole but on May 1, 1926, there was dancing at Ocean Echo featuring Benny Resh and his Arcadians Dance Orchestra. On Plum Island, ...

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