It's described as one of the earliest forms of soccer with one ancient rule telling players not to murder each other.

Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day ... Another ancient annual event is the Shrovetide football game in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Locals are split into two teams, the Up'ards and the Down ...

This is the Atherstone Ball Game, an 826-year-old tradition in this Warwickshire town, and one of a dwindling number of ancient football games played across Britain on Shrove Tuesday, known as Fat ...

On their website, Historic UK explains: “Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast ... “Lent is a period of 40 days where Christians remember the events leading up to and including the death ...

Children in Scarborough continue the town's 122-year-old Shrove Tuesday tradition. Last year's runner-up goes one better in a tradition that dates from 1445. Liverpool's traditional Pancake Day ...

A woman picked to start a traditional Shrove Tuesday ball game which dates to ... was plagued with serious injuries At last year's event, Atherstone-born comedian Josh Pugh threw the special ...

Norwich Cathedral held a day of pancake flipping fun as it celebrated its annual Shrove Tuesday tradition. Multiple events were held within the garden and cloisters of the cathedral, with choristers ...

The event begins at 12.30pm. Inter Livery Pancake Race at Guildhall Yard It all happens in Guildhall Yard. Photo: Matt Brown Every Shrove Tuesday, members of City Livery Companies — plus City ...

The event, in Alnwick, Northumberland ... About 80 players took part last year when Shrove Tuesday fell in the school holidays. Organiser Archie Jenkins said: "We do get a few less when the ...

Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day ... when a lone runner kept the streak alive despite Covid restrictions. Another ancient annual event is the Shrovetide football game in Ashbourne, Derbyshire ...