Devoted to the Study of Folklore and Tradition

• Date: 23rd Feb 2019
• University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

"The Broadside Day is our annual one-day conference covering street literature in all its fascinating aspects – broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, woodcuts, engravings, last-dying speeches, catchpennies, wonder-tales, almanacs, fortune-tellers, and all kinds of cheap printed material sold to ordinary people in city streets, at country fairs, and from pedlar’s packs up and down th...

• Date: 20th Mar 2019
• Cecil Sharp House

"It is a surprisingly little-known fact that the novelist Angela Carter was a folk singer in the 1960s second-wave folk revival. A newly unearthed archive reveals that she not only co-founded a folk club in the 1960s with her first husband, folk producer Paul Carter, but that she also sang there fortnightly for several years. This lecture will firstly collate some of the evidence...

• Date: 9th Apr 2019
• Kensington Central Library Lecture Theatre

In this illustrated talk Antony Clayton, author of Secret Tunnels of England: Folklore & Fact and The Folklore of London will uncover various examples of unusual underground folklore across England, including the mysterious Green Children of Woolpit, the Knockers of Cornish mining folklore, fiddlers vanishing underground, buried treasure, fabled secret tunnels and treacle mines....

• Date: 17th Apr 2019
• Cecil Sharp House

"The Gill brothers, W.H. Gill (1839–1923) and Deemster J.F. Gill (1842–99) have remained marginalised and neglected figures in the collecting of Manx folk song, overshadowed by A.W. Moore (1853–1909), whose own Manx Ballads and Music appeared in 1896, and by Dr John Clague (1842–1908), whose collection was published in large part in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society betwe...

• Start date: 24th Apr 2019
• End date: 24th Apr 2019
• Reed Hall, University of Exeter, Streatham Drive, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4QR

10am-5pm At: Reed Hall, University of Exeter, Streatham Drive, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4QR Tickets: £35 (£25 concession) Organised by Devon Guild of Craftsmen, with support from University of Exeter Arts and Culture team, this day long event will bring academics and artists together to shed further light on the history of witchcraft in Exeter, Devon and beyond, and on the symbolism,...

• Start date: 24th Aug 2019
• End date: 25th Aug 2019
• Björnunda, Sweden

Kulning is an old voice technique used in Swedish and Norwegian summer farms long ago. It was a way for calling the cattle and communicating with other people over long distances. You use a very high, strong and powerful voice when you Kular, and in a quiet forest it can be heard for kilometers. Everyone can find their own powerful voice, so no special singing voice is needed in lea...

• Start date: 26th Aug 2019
• End date: 27th Aug 2019
• Dubai, UAE

We stretch out to warm welcome to our 6th International Conference on Medicinal Practices: Herbal, Holistic and Traditional to be held from August 26-27, 2019 Dubai, UAE. Medicinal Practices 2019 pursuits to acquire leading educational scientists, researchers, and research college students to exchange & proportion their reports and research results about all components of Me...

• Start date: 16th Nov 2019
• End date: 17th Nov 2019
• Cecil Sharp House

"The British Isles have a rich history of step dancing of many forms and in many contexts some of which are relatively well known and others largely lost. It is a history which goes back many centuries and links with traditions in other parts of the world. The aim of the conference is to further our knowledge and understanding, and to stimulate debate. The conference will be of inte...