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...
The Royal Anthropological Institute, Research Seminar. 24 September 2014, 5.30-7.30 pm, Dr Juliette Wood: “The Mari Llwyd in Wales: Celebration as National Identity https://www.therai.org.uk/events-calendar/eventdetail/208/-/rai-research-seminar-juliette-wood
Malcolm Taylor, OBE, now retired from his post as Director of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, received The Folklore Society’s Coote Lake Medal at his leaving party at Cecil Sharp House on Sunday 27 July 2014 from Folklore Society Vice-President Prof. Will Ryan. Congratulations Malcolm. Gallery
Newer Researchers in Folklore Studies Conference
Folklore Studies has a long history of scholarship that often goes unrecognised outside the ranks of Folklore scholars. It remains a minority discipline, even in countries where it has had a stronger academic recognition than it has in Britain. Despite its wide popular appeal, Folklore remains marginalised. The Folklore Society has been concerned for some...