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,...
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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...
Jacqueline Simpson appointed Visiting Professor at Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy
Congratulations to Professor Jacqueline Simpson, former editor of our journal Folklore and current editor of our newslettter FLS news, on her appointment as Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester’s Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy.
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...