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Previous winners of the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award

• 2009 Kathryn Marsh, The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children's Songs and Games, (Oxford University Press).

• 2008 Richard Bebb, Welsh Furniture 1250-1950: a Cultural History of Craftsmanship and Design (Saer Books)

• 2007 Jack Zipes, Why Fairy Tales Stick (Routledge)

• 2006 Catherine Rider, Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press)

• 2005 Jeremy Harte, Explore Fairy Traditions (Heart of Albion Press)

• 2004 Steve Roud, The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland (Penguin)

• 2003 Malcolm JONES, The Secret Middle Ages (Sutton)

• 2002 Elizabeth HALLAM and Jenny HOCKEY, Death, Memory and Material Culture (Berg)

• 2001 Adam FOX, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 (Clarendon Press)

• 2000 Diarmuid O'GIOLLAIN, Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (Cork University Press)

• 1999 Marina WARNER, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Chatto and Windus)

• 1998 Joseph Falaky NAGY, Conversing with Angels and Ancients The Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (Four Courts)

• 1997 Neil JARMAN, Parading Culture: Parades and Visual Displays in Northern Ireland (Berg)

• 1996 Mary-Ann CONSTANTINE, Breton Ballads (CMCS Publications)

• 1995 Timothy MITCHELL, Flamenco Deep Song (Yale University Press)

• 1994 Claudia KINMONTH, Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950 (Yale University Press)

• 1993 Georgina BOYES, The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology, and the English Folk Revival (Manchester University Press)

• 1992 E.P. THOMPSON, Customs in Common (Merlin Press)

• 1991 Simon CHARSLEY, Rites of Marrying: The Wedding Industry in Scotland (Manchester University Press)

• 1990 Paul OLIVER, Blues Fell This Morning (Cambridge University Press)

• 1989 J.P. MALLORY, In Search of the Indo-Europeans Language, Archaeology and Myth (Thames & Hudson)

• 1988 Hilda Ellis DAVIDSON, Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe (Manchester University Press)

• 1987 Amy SHUMAN, Storytelling Rights (Cambridge University Press)

• 1986 lona and Peter OPIE, The Singing Game (Oxford University Press)

• 1985 Vladimir PROPP, Theory and History of Folklore, edited by Anatoly Liberman (Manchester University Press)

• 1984 Sandra BILLINGTON, A Social History of the Fool (Harvester Press)

• 1983 Michael PICKERING, Village Song and Culture (Croom Helm)

• 1982 Samuel Pyeatt MENEFEE, Wives for Sale: an Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce (Basil Blackwell)