Special Blog Series: We Herts Folklorists
This is the first post of a special weekly blog series we’ll be running over the next few weeks, showcasing some of the wonderful talent of people who have recently completed the MA in Folklore Studies at the University of Hertfordshire. Throughout this series you will see some great folklore-inspired work, ranging from blogs to...
Virtual Special Issue: Dragons
Our latest Folklore Virtual Special Issue is on Dragons With an introduction by Dr Juliette Wood and a selection of articles from Folklore on this theme. From Fafnir to Smaug, to the pearl-chasing Chinese long and the dragons that stalk the world of Internet games, these mythical creatures, whether traditional or literary, carry great symbolic value. The mound-dwelling,...
More from Whitby Folk Week at Home
John Hall’s Horngarth film, about the Whitby Penny Hedge, was due to be screened at Whitby Folk Week this year. The film can be downloaded from here: https://vimeo.com/439517043
Doc Rowe’s Locked-Down Freed-Up – Whitby@Home 2020
Doc Rowe has published this lovely video on YouTube for Whitby Folk Week 2020 under lockdown. Enjoy! Doc Rowe’s Locked-Down Freed-Up – Whitby@Home 2020
CANCELLED: Folklore, Learning and Literacies Conference 24-26 April 2020
The Folklore Society regrets to announce the cancellation of our Folklore, Learning and Literacies conference, 24-26 April 2020. This because the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) situation is only likely to get worse in the medium term, and there is considerable uncertainty about what its consequences will be. The Society’s trustees have decided that it is necessary, in...
Folklore Society Library: new accessions 2019
Click here for a list of our library accessions for 2019 most of these books will be added to our collections at University College London library and will be available for loan to FLS members and UCL students as soon as they have been added to UCL’s online library catalogue. A few of these books...
The Katharine Briggs Award 2019
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Katharine Briggs Award 2019 is Guy Beiner for his book Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (published by Oxford University Press). Congratu;ations Guy Beiner and OUP
Katharine Briggs Award 2019–Short List
We are very pleased to announce the short list for this year’s Katharine Briggs Award. The short listed entries are (in alphabetical order): Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography in Ulster (Oxford University Press) Ronald James, The Folklore of Cornwall: The Oral Tradition of a Celtic Nation (University of Exeter Press) Nigel...