Country pursuits.
The oldest leisure of the landed families: a moor in August, a salmon river in spring, a waxed jacket that outlives its owner.
The oldest leisure of the landed families: a moor in August, a salmon river in spring, a waxed jacket that outlives its owner.
August 12Red grouse shooting opens
Red grouse shooting opens on August 12 across Great Britain, the day called the Glorious Twelfth. In England and Wales the Game Act 1831 fixed the date, and when the 12th falls on a Sunday the season opens on the 13th, as game birds are not shot on a Sunday. Most other game seasons open on September 1, and pheasant on October 1.
10 monthsThe salmon season on the Tweed, February to November
The River Tweed, in the Scottish Borders, has one of the longest salmon seasons in the United Kingdom: from February 1 to November 30. The River Tweed Commission manages the fishing from the hills to the sea, in 4 stretches: the Upper, Middle, Lower and Bottom Tweed.
1894John Barbour opens his shop
John Barbour opened J. Barbour & Sons on the Market Place of South Shields, in the northeast of England, in 1894. The Duke of Edinburgh granted the first Royal Warrant in 1974, Queen Elizabeth II the second in 1982 and the Prince of Wales the third in 1987. The company is still a family business, in its fifth generation, in the northeast.
71,393Who's Who entrants whose recreations were studied
In 2020 the sociologists Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves, of the London School of Economics, read 120 years of the recreations that 71,393 entrants listed in Who's Who. The earliest generations described their leisure through aristocratic pursuits such as shooting, hunting, fishing, riding and sailing, and later ones through highbrow culture and then ordinary pastimes. Nearly 40% of current entrants still list aristocratic recreations.
The sailing, the polo and the opera that fill the rest of their year are in Sailing, Polo and Opera and music.
Sources. Glorious Twelfth · River Tweed Commission, salmon fishing · Barbour, our history · Friedman and Reeves, From Aristocratic to Ordinary, American Sociological Review, 2020 · LSE, Keeping up appearances. Read October 2026. A record of places, houses and dates, published as research. Patrician.ch has no commercial relationship with any house named here. Photographs from Unsplash and Pexels, used under their licenses.
August 12, the day red grouse shooting opens in Great Britain.
The Game Act 1831 fixed the date in England and Wales.
From February 1 to November 30.
In 1894, when John Barbour opened his shop in South Shields.
It holds Royal Warrants from 1974, 1982 and 1987.
Nearly 40% of current Who's Who entrants list aristocratic recreations such as shooting, fishing, riding and sailing, by the 2020 study of Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves.
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