April 8, 2025
Echoes of Padstow project website now live
The Echoes of Padstow project is inspired by the incredible audio-visual collection of Doc Rowe, who first visited Padstow in 1963. It has become Doc’s life-long work dedicated to recording, collecting and preserving traditions such as Padstow’s May Day. The Echoes of Padstow website celebrates Padstow, its people and their Obby Oss May Day tradition....
March 25, 2025
The Folklore Society’s Doc Rowe Award 2025
We have renamed, revised and relaunched our biennial non-print media award’ as ‘The Doc Rowe Award’ in honour of his six decades of recording, filming and photographing seasonal events throughout the UK. Submissions are invited for the 2025 Doc Rowe Award, to be presented in November after this year’s Katharine Briggs Lecture. For more details...
February 24, 2025
Folklore Reimagined LATE
Folklore Reimagined: 2025 events at The British Academy April-May 2025 British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AH How have global folklore traditions, stories, and customs shaped our identities? And what does contemporary folklore look like? Delve into fascinating topics like the lore of our landscapes, the importance of sung history, and how crafting...