The Coote Lake Medal for Research
photo C. Oates Prof Patricia Lysaght, who edited our journal ‘Folklore’ from 2004-2012, was awarded The Coote Lake Medal for Research during our Urban Folklore conference at Cardiff University on 20 April. Congratulations!
New Book: Alliteration In Culture
Papers from The Folklore Society’s Alliteration conference of 2007: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=361599
2011 was a very busy year for the FLS Library and Archives. We are very grateful to all the volunteers, part-timers and temporary staff who helped out, listed here in order of appearance: Sietske Fransen, Peter Kiernan, Katie Reid, Cassie Gonzales, Cathy Hull, Tom Goodman, Angharad Gwylim, Kieran Turner, Tabitha Cadbury, Jeremy Harte, Matteo Favaretto,...
The Katharine Briggs Book Award 2011 Winner
Folk Tales, Tall Tales, Trickster Tales, and Legends of the Supernatural from the Pinelands of New Jersey: Recorded and Annotated by Herbert Halpert between 1936 and 1951, by the late Herbert Halpert and J.D.A Widdowson, published by The Edwin Mellen Press. The prize was awarded to Professor Widdowson and Dr William Marcy IV of The Edwin...
Floral Tributes to Steve Jobs outside the Apple store in Bath, 6 October 2011.
Folklore and Legends of Lincolnshire
By Mabel Peacock and Wilhelmine Fowler, Edited by Gillian Bennett [2010], available on CD, price £5.00 UK pounds. Contact us to place an order.
Thanks to the efforts of Andrew Bennett and his team of eager volunteers, The Folklore Society’s collection of Ordish papers has now been transcribed. Although it is still very much work in progress, we now have available a DVD of boxes 1-5, price £10.00 UK pounds. Contact us to place an order.
A Tribute to William John Thoms (1803-1885), Creator of Folklore
5 September 2010, at the close of our fifth annual Legendary Weekend “Death in Legend and Tradition,” at Brompton Cemetery, London, Dr Roper gave a short eulogy and laid a wreath on behalf of The Folklore Society on the grave of William J. Thoms, who first coined the term “folk-lore” in 1846. Read Jonathan Roper’s...