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The Sailor’s Tale: Folklore Society Presidential Address 2024 and AGM

  • 17/09/2024
  • 17:00
  • Online and at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT

Image: LC-USZ62-60248: "Spinning a Yarn". Seven "Old Salts" engaged in telling tall tales aboard USS Enterprise (1877-1909), circa spring 1890. Photographed by E.H. Hart, Detroit Publishing, New York. Also at NHHC as NH 47029-A. (6/5/2015), via Wikimedia Commons.

The Sailor’s Tale

The Folklore Society Presidential Address 2024

By Prof. David Hopkin (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 September 2024, 17:00 BST

at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT and online

David Hopkin is a social and cultural historian of modern Western Europe (c.1760-c.1914). He works with oral and popular cultural sources – the kind of material left by people who are otherwise underrepresented in the archive. His first monograph Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture 1766-1870 (Gladstone Prize 2002) concentrated on popular prints; his second, Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France (Katharine Briggs Award 2012) used sources such as ballads, folktales and riddles to reconstruct social interactions. He is currently working on a book about European lacemakers: for more on this project visit the website Lace in Context.

Register to attend the lecture in person: Seats at 50 Fitzroy Street are limited, so priority will be given to Folklore Society members intending to stay for The Folklore Society’s Annual General Meeting from 18:30-19:30: email us via https://folklore-society.com/contact to book a seat (first come, first served). There will be drinks and nibbles.

Register to attend the lecture online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sailors-tale-tickets-840160652127?

The lecture is open to all, and tickets are free (but we welcome donations to help support the work of The Folklore Society. To make a donation, please select the option ‘Free Admission and Voluntary donation’: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/manage/events/840160652127/tickets/1410441899

The Folklore Society Annual General Meeting 2024

The AGM will take place after the lecture, from 18:30-19:30: Folklore Society members only.

Folklore Society members may attend in person at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT or online via Zoom, and all members are now entitled to vote, whether participating in person or online.

To attend the AGM in person: please email via https://folklore-society.com/contact to let us know you’re coming. Seats are limited, so first come, first served.

To attend the AGM online: the AGM Zoom meeting link, agenda, minutes of 2023 AGM, and the Accounts & Trustee Report 2023, will be emailed to all Folklore Society members.

If you haven’t received these by 24 August, please contact us via https://folklore-society.com/contact

Image: LC-USZ62-60248: “Spinning a Yarn”. Seven “Old Salts” engaged in telling tall tales aboard USS Enterprise (1877-1909), circa spring 1890. Photographed by E.H. Hart, Detroit Publishing, New York. Also at NHHC as NH 47029-A. (6/5/2015), via Wikimedia Commons.