In Northwold at a lovely low-key event for their annual blessing of the plough. We processed behind the plough following Morris dancers and music to arrive at the church ready for its blessing. God Speed the Plough ! #ploughmonday #tradition #backtowork #folklore #morrisdancing
It was #ploughmonday yesterday & I forgot to tell you all that I wrote a piece for the January issue of BBC Countryfile magazine all about it, with recipe for #ploughpudding
I was busy editing yesterday and forgot about Plough Monday! The start of the agricultural year when everyone got back to work after the Christmas festivities. This window is at St Mary’s Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
Stained Glass, 1903 by Arthur Joseph Dix (1861-1917) at St Michael Penkridge.
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
Miss Julia White learnt to plough with horses, aged 40, from Jack Tucker in wartime, in the fields I know & love. I learnt (in theory) from her words, & as I recreated & reanimated them, & walked those furrows. Here’s an extract & a song for #PloughMonday from #GhostsoftheFarm, & a photo of Jack 1/4
Today is #PloughMonday and here are Molly Dancers outside Holy Trinity Church in #Cambridge.
From the Peterborough Advertiser, 1911. This memory came from an interview with Mrs Lemmon of Whittlesey. She was born in 1820! #PloughMonday
Today is the first Monday after epiphany and marks the traditional start of the agricultural year and known as #PloughMonday. Our favourite Hilda Zigomala depicts ploughing in Lombardy from 1909
Today is #PloughMonday. Thomas Tusser called it one of the feasts 'belonging to the plough' that employers in #earlymodern England should never forget.
Here I explore these holidays where work & play mingled: how the festive shaped #labour relations.
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Stained glass image of a ploughman driving a plough pulled by two white oxen, caught in a roundel of feathery foliage, a detail of a larger design.
'God Speed the Plough!' it's #PloughMonday today, when the ploughmen, having had their ploughs blessed on the Sunday, would go out a-visiting round the houses - but here's a ploughman at work at Ebrington, #Gloucestershire, by Christopher Webb, 1964.
Two blade tractor drawn plough in front of a stone wall.
Two blade tractor-drawn plough.
Three bladed plough for use on lighter soils with a tractor.
Some old plough drawings I did a while ago for #PloughMonday. All are early tractor-drawn ploughs. The first one was at Carreg Cennen castle in Wales, t'others at the east Kent Museum of Farming. All drawn with Rotring pens.
#PenArt #drawing
#ArtYear
Today is #PloughMonday - the traditional day when our rural ancestors would celebrate going back into the fields after the end of the Christmas celebrations. Find out more about how Plough Monday is celebrated with our guide:
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Today's the day - back to the fields/the concrete jungle. At this rate, we'll need to have a lie down 😴
#PloughMonday #January
In a stubble field backed by woodland, a pair of farm workers are tilting a traditional blue and red balance plough on its centre axle. A black steam ploughing engine sits behind the plough and connected to it, with two people on the footplate. Further away, a very similar ploughing engine that is black with orange wheels is releasing excess steam through its safety valves.
#PloughMonday is upon us once more as another agricultural year begins.
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Let us hope the weather is kind and the harvests are bountiful.
Today is Jan 12:
#CleanOffYourDeskDay
#KissAGingerDay
#PharmacistDay
#HotTeaDay
#KettlebellDay
#FourthGradersDay
#MarzipanDay
#GlutenFreeDay
#FeastOfFabulousWildMenDay
#WorkHarderDay
#ShapeTapeDay
#ComingOfAgeDay
#ZDay
#PloughMonday
The Blessing of the Plough
With dances and songs by Handsome Molly
Plough Monday
12 January 2026
6:30 pm
Trinity Church
33 Mercer Street
Princeton, New Jersey
@karanslade.bsky.social, Officiant
#PloughMonday
Cartoon of Plough Monday from 1814. People dance around a plough with thatched cottages in background
Today is Plough Monday, a traditional day of farm workers parading to be given extra money, and also of blessings of ploughs and Morris dancing
#ploughMonday
I love this time of year! Wassailing, Plough Monday and the Straw Bear all fantastic traditions from the old agricultural calendar. #PloughMonday #StrawBear
#PloughMonday #OldFox'sCottage
A single furrow horse drawn plough, set alongside a flint village church wall as a tribute to those men & women that worked the land.
Me in the downland fields Julia White farmed, leaning on a log with my book.
Julia White with her dogs Jo and Dina, in the 1940s
Harvest gang on the farm. An assortment of villagers posed with various pitchforks and rakes, below a rick
It’s #PloughMonday & here is Julia White’s 1st plough. She pioneered farming 1941-1955, & with her farmer-partner Doris, pulled the plough up the church aisle to be blessed each year. I’m grateful I got to tell their story, & laugh with, listen to, & interrogate their ghosts. #GhostsoftheFarm
A poster showing a woman driving a horse plough, originally produced for the Women'sLand Army
"God speed the plough...and the woman who drives it"
#PloughMonday #Women'sLandArmy #TheArchers
A tweed jacket with tatters sewn on, a load of pheasant feathers in the pocket and a collection of badges, most of which are Fen related.
And so it begins...
#PloughMonday
#MepalMolly
#MollyDancing
#FenLife
We'll be in the centre of Cambridge this afternoon, if you dare... (King's Parade, the market, St Andrew's Street)
For those wanting to catch #MepalMolly tomorrow, they will be at Sutton at 1025, Mepal 1045, Witchford at 1110, then around central Cambridge for the afternoon. Keep an ear out for the singing or the music (these are not always the same...)
#PloughMonday
#MollyDancing
Here's a thought - it is #PloughMonday on Monday...
#MepalMolly
#MollyDancing
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a video poem for plough monday
The first part of the poem dates from the 14th century, and was taken from a verse carved into the gallery of St. Agnes' Church at Cawston in Norfolk.
#SpedeThePlow
#PloughMonday
#Cawston
