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News Clipping: Plough Monday making a comeback
According to local tradition we should all be enjoying a public holiday today. Plough Monday once marked the end of the Christmas period and was
often the only holiday of the year for Dorset farm labourers apart from
the odd celebrations such as May Day or Harvest Home. Active from the Middle Ages until the late 1800s, Plough Monday was
the day field labourers could have fun at the expense of their wealthier
neighbours.
READ MORE - Source: Bournemouth Daily Echo Monday 9th January 2012
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