Festivals and seasons

The year's feasts and festivals through the buildings, monuments and places of the isles: where Christmas was kept and banned, the tombs that catch the midwinter sunrise, the churches of each saint, the hills of the old quarter-day fires, the ghosts of Halloween and the cellars of the Gunpowder Plot. Each festival has its history, customs, legends and food with their sources quoted and checked, the places to visit, and what the catalogue holds for it: churches, stories, sky alignments, what happened on the day.