The Folklore Society office at 50 Fitzroy St, London W1T 5BT
We’ve unpacked and moved in now, huge thanks to Tina Paphitis and Ewan Wallace
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Folklore Society office new address
We are moving our Folklore Society office to 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT. Our new telephone number is +44 (0) 203 915 3034. We’re still at The Warburg Institute until 31 July, preparing papers to add to our Folklore Society Archives at UCL Special Collections.
Last Chance: £1 book sale Weds 17 July, 5-7:30 pm
We are holding our final £1 sale of stocks of Folklore Society publications and back issues of our journal Folklore today, Weds 17 July, from 5-7:30 pm at The Warburg Institute. We also have numerous second hand books at very reasonable prices. And we are emptying the wine cupboard too, so come and join us...
Gillian Bennett receiving her Coote Lake medal
She said ‘Thank you very much’ and ‘Can I get a hole drilled through it so that I can wear it as a pendant?’
The Folklore Society office is moving
As of August 2019, The Folklore Society Office will be at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT. We’ll still have a reference collection of books for visitors to come and look at and a librarian to offer information about resources for folklore enquiries.
We are very sad to hear of the death on 8 April of Professor Bill Gray, founder of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction (formerly Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy), University of Chichester, and send our condolences to his family and former colleagues.
MA in Folklore Studies at the University of Hertfordshire
Exciting news for anyone wanting to turn their interest in folklore into an academic qualification: the University of Hertfordshire are now offering a Folklore Studies MA, which will run both part-time and full-time. For further details on the programme of study and how to apply, please see: https://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/ma-folklore-studies
We’re having another sale of second hand books, at very cheap prices, plus back issues of our journal Folklore from 1976 to 2013 (with some gaps) and remaining back stocks of FLS Books @£1.00 each. Wednesday 27 February, 17:00–19:45 at The Warburg Institute, in the Common Room. Email us at thefolkloresociety @gmail.com to let us know you’re...