Katharine Briggs Lecture and Awards Shortlists
Tonight, 16 November 2021, at 6 pm, The Katharine Briggs Lecture, online:
Prof. Ian Russell: “‘Peace o’er the World:’ Christmas Carolling in the Hope Valley.”
Tickets are free; book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peace-oer-the-world-christmas-carolling-in-the-hope-valley-tickets-180436750177
After the lecture, we will announce the winners of this year’s Katharine Briggs Award and our Non-Print Media Award.
The Katharine Briggs Award 2021 Shortlist (alphabetically):
- Lesley Coote, Storyworlds of Robin Hood: The Origins of a Medieval Outlaw (Reaktion Books)
- Julian Goodare and Martha McGill (eds.), The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (Manchester University Press)
- Jonathan Y. H. Hui, Vilmundar saga viðutan. The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider (Viking Society for Northern Research)
- Raphael Chijioke Njoku, West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism (Boydell and Brewer)
- Donna Schatt and Patrick Ryan, Story Listening and Experience in Early Childhood (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Vaughn Scribner, Merpeople: A Human History (Reaktion Books)
- Marek Tuszewicki, A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe, translated by Jessica Taylor-Kucia (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
And here is the Non-Print Media Award Shortlist:
- Leafield Lass, sung by Freda Palmer (Musical Traditions)
- Won’t You Buy My Pretty Flowers? sung by Charlie Bridger (Musical Traditions)
- Margaret Fay Shaw’s Hebridean Odyssey, presented by Fiona Mackenzie (Yamal Productions/BBC Radio 3)
- Henry Glassie, Fieldwork, documentary by Pat Collins (Southwind Blows/Harvest Films)
- Iorram [Boat Song], documentary by Alastair Cole (Tongue Tied Films)