{"id":5836,"date":"2022-02-09T19:58:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T18:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2022-02-09T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:08:11","slug":"speaker-meeting-7th-february-2022-valentines-day-and-other-spring-festivals-professor-ronald-hutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/2022\/02\/09\/speaker-meeting-7th-february-2022-valentines-day-and-other-spring-festivals-professor-ronald-hutton\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Meeting 7th February 2022: Valentine\u2019s Day and Other Spring Festivals &#8211; Professor Ronald Hutton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2020\/05\/hearts-2020-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4914\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2020\/05\/hearts-2020-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2020\/05\/hearts-2020-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2020\/05\/hearts-2020-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The talk reviewed a number of festivals, revealing that prehistorically they were based on survival, farming and nature. Later they were based on religion and Christianity and more recently focused on community, human life and family, of which Valentine\u2019s Day and Mother\u2019s Day were given as examples.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the origin of \u2018Valentine\u2019 is not known, Chaucer recorded that 14<sup>th<\/sup> February was the day birds chose their mate. Initially, recipients were loved ones but also could be by pulling a name or even the first person they met on that morning! By the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century the favoured token was a letter or card.\u00a0 In the 1840s, commercial cards became available. By 1914, after cards had become increasingly rude, the practice nearly faded out. In the 1950s, the sending of cards to a loved one on Valentine\u2019s Day was reintroduced by the USA. \u00a0Interestingly 15<sup>th<\/sup> of February was also a noticeable date as it was celebrated as \u201cThe Feast of the Wolves\u201d and the men, wearing nothing but a jockstrap, ran around creating havoc!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mother\u2019s Day first started in the north and west of the UK, with Bristol being in the centre. On the second Sunday of Lent servants were given the day off work to visit their mothers, often taking a simnel cake. By the 1930\u2019s when servants were less common, the tradition faded. It was revived in the USA (on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Sunday in May) and in the 1950\u2019s was resurrected in the UK (2<sup>nd<\/sup> Sunday of Lent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The talk reviewed a number of festivals, revealing that prehistorically they were based on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":4914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supper-meetings-read-what-our-speakers-have-to-say"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Speaker Meeting 7th February 2022: Valentine\u2019s Day and Other Spring Festivals - Professor Ronald Hutton | News | Blog | Events | SI Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bristol : Blog &amp; News : Speaker Meeting 7th February 2022: Valentine\u2019s Day and Other Spring Festivals - Professor Ronald Hutton : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bristol . 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