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Thomas Fairman Ordish

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...

H-Folk: H-Net Network on Folklore

H-Net proudly announces its newest addition to its family of over 180 discussion networks—H-Folk—in cooperation with The American Folklore Society, The Folklore Society of Great Britain, The Folklore Studies Association of Canada, the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, the National Folklore Support Centre [India], and the Société internationale d’ethnologie et de folklore. H-Folk has...

Book Notice: The Folklore of Discworld

Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson are joint authors of The Folklore of Discworld, which was published by Doubleday in September 2008 (ISBN 978-0-385-61100-8). Pratchett has had a lifelong interest in folklore and myth, and has often drawn on this in his fantasy novels about the Discworld, sometimes for major plot motifs, sometimes for passing allusions. He...