It's as English as warm beer and fish and chips...but maypole dancing is becoming a dying art. Now residents on a Bradford estate are rallying round to bring the tradition back to life. But there's ...

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 ...

Maypole dancing might seem like a thing of the past, but the tradition is being kept alive in villages across England and in Oxfordshire - here are some of the best pictures of it in the archive.

While I had vaguely heard of the Maypole dance over the years, the first one I experienced in person involved schoolchildren in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. My son had enrolled as a fifth grader in ...

You may have seen images or videos of people dancing around maypoles on May Day. Perhaps you've even found yourself twirling around one, clad in flowers, breathing in the fresh late spring air. It ...

A social media image purporting to be an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper, opens new tab, in which a British folk dance is labelled racist, is fake. The screenshot, which mimics the British ...

Benjamin Hitch-Bramley is urging people to get in touch if they can help their appeal For more than 150 years Gawthorpe's maypole has anchored the village's May Day celebrations. But, with the pole ...

About 250 people gathered on the grounds at the Berks County 4-H Center in Bern Township to watch a traditional English maypole dance Saturday and celebrate the coming of warmer weather. The May Faire ...