Jacqueline Simpson and Sir Terry Pratchett
Ron Payne Dr Jacqueline Simpson’s obituary for Sir Terry Pratchett, who died 12 March 2015, will appear in the August issue of our journal Folklore. A conversation about folklore between Sir Terry and Jacqueline was recorded in 2010. listen again to the podcast and read the transcript.
The Katharine Briggs Lecture 2014
Diane Goldstein, ‘“Cry, Lady, Cry!” Maternal Infanticide Narratives and the Vernacular Construction of Blame’, 19 November 2014 at The Warburg Institute. Many thanks Diane for a wonderful lecture
Newer Researchers in Folklore 20 Nov 2014
Many thanks to Diane Goldstein and all the participants in our Newer Researchers’ one-day conference. Lots of new ideas were shared, contacts made and plans begun for further ventures. Let’s do it again next year!
The Katharine Briggs Award 2014
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2014 Katharine Briggs Award is David Atkinson, for his book The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts, published by OpenBook Publishers. Congratulations David. Runners-up: Jackie Marsh and Julia C. Bishop, Changing Play: Play, Media and Commercial Culture from the 1950s to the Present Day, Open University Press. Here are...
Doc Rowe We’re very happy to announce that the winner of our inaugural Non-Print Media Award 2014 was presented to Rod Stradling for Old Fashioned Songs: Cecilia Costello; Musical Traditions [Double CD ] Here are the judges’ comments: This recent venture by the Folklore Society is to reward newer forms of publication on folklore and allied subjects. As this...
Folklore Society President’s Prize 2014
Doc Rowe Congratulations to Ben Kehoe, winner of the Folklore Society President’s Prize 2014, for his entry: ‘“He appeared to us like a God”: Popular Perceptions and Memories of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Revolution of 1860 in Sicily in the Later Nineteenth Century’ (MPhil thesis, Oxford University).
Andrew Bennett We are very sad to report the death, on 17 September, of Dr Eddie Cass, our vice-president and former president, and author of The Lancashire Pace-Egg Plays and The Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder Valley. He will be very much missed.
Don Yoder Graduate and William A. Wilson Undergraduate Paper Prizes—Call for Submissions
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for TWO student prizes:The Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife, with an honorarium of $500; and NOW a second prize, the William A. Wilson Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Undergraduate Paper Prize; with an honorarium...