Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse: An Exhibition at Maidstone Museum

Hoodening is an ancient calendar custom unique to East Kent, involving a wooden horse's head on a pole, carried by a man concealed by a sack. The earliest reliable record is from 1735, but little serious research had gone into the tradition between Percy Maylam's seminal work "The Hooden Horse", published in 1909, and George Frampton's 2018 update, "Discordant Comicals". The current book,...