Ronald Hutton awarded the Coote Lake Medal
Following the Katharine Briggs Lecture at Cecil Sharp House on 12 November, Prof. Ronald Hutton was presented with The Folklore Society’s Coote Lake Medal for his long-standing contribution to folklore scholarship. Jeremy Harte delivered a compelling citation, which will be published in FLS News.
The Katharine Briggs Award 2024
We are delighted to announce that Tabitha Stanmore is the winner of this year’s Katharine Briggs Award for her book Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, published by The Bodley Head. Cunning Folk offers a rich and engaging exploration of the lives and practices of magical practitioners in England from the medieval...
Folklore and the Senses: Call for Papers
Folklore and the Senses The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference, in collaboration with the Department of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork, Ireland. Friday 20 June to Sunday 22 June 2025 Hybrid conference, online and at University College Cork We know the world through our senses, but how we sense is inflected by symbolism, tradition and...
Liz Overs in Performance Hosted by The Folklore Society at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Friday 13 December 2024, 19:30 Liz Overs performs songs from her first solo album, Nightjar, joined by guitarist David Tomlins. A mix of traditional and original songs, Nightjar is fully acoustic, recorded mostly live in the studio with Neill MacColl...
The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2024
Dr Doc Rowe, ‘Transmission, Transformation and Trends: Historic and Contemporary Approaches to our Cultural Traditions’ Tuesday 12 Nov 2024, 6:00pm – 10:00pm Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY The Folklore Society’s annual Katharine Briggs evening is jointly hosted this year by The Folklore Society and The English Folk Dance and Song...
Folklore Without Borders: November Meeting
Folklore Without Borders: November Meeting 14-15 November 2024 Online and at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT The Folklore Society are hosting a two-day symposium for the Folklore Without Borders research network on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 November. The symposium will be blended and take place online and in person at the Royal Anthropological...
Dracula Returns: A Conference and Celebration. Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS Dracula Returns: a conference and celebration Derby Museums 15–18 May 2025 In 1924, at the world premiere in Derby, Dracula stepped onto the stage. He was charming and suave, a different vampire to the monster of Bram Stoker’s novel. When the curtain rose, Hamilton Deane’s adaptation debuted Dracula in evening dress and...
Announcing the National Folklore Survey
In Charlie Cooper’s new series Myth Country (streaming on BBC I-player) the actor and writer reveals his passion for folklore and how the peculiar rituals and traditions of this country ‘bring people together’. Far from being outdated and trivial, folklore is, he says, ‘very much alive and thriving on social media’. The National Folklore Survey...