Water in Legend and Tradition – Saturday 31 August and Sunday 1 September 2024
Water in Legend and Tradition: the 18th Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society Saturday 31 August and Sunday 1 September 2024 St Peter’s by the Waterfront, College Street, Ipswich IP4 1BF, UK Cry me a river! The tears of the Virgin would fill a bottomless pool, down to the sunless dragons of the deep. Exorcise thee,...
The Folklore, Superstitions and Customs of Sussex
What did people believe in the past and why? How much of the old folk culture survives till our own day? This talk by local historian Chris Hare will include folk medicine, rituals of the seasons and the Moon, and how the lives of country people translated into town life as Sussex became more urbanised....
The Wishing Tree of Loch Maree
Our editor of FLS News, Dr Ceri Houlbrook, has written a very nice piece about the Wishing-tree of Loch Maree for The Wellcome Collection website: you can read it here: https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/ZpoyNhAAAFyEjk4- Image: The wishing-tree of Loch Maree. © Cat O’Neil / Killington Arts for Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Coote Lake Medal awarded to Steve Roud
Congratulations to Steve Roud, who has been awarded The Folklore Society’s Coote Lake Medal for outstanding research and scholarship. Here you can see him being presented with the medal by FLS President David Hopkin on 28th June 2024 at our Digital Folklore conference, with Caroline Oates, FLS Librarian, looking on.
Digital Folklore: hybrid conference Programme
We have a terrific line-up of speakers on the programme for our Digital Folklore hybrid conference, 28-30 June 2024, online and in-person at Kings College London, Strand, London WC2B 4BG, UK For more information, and to download the programme and booking form, please visit: https://folklore-society.com/event/digital-folklore-conference/ Programme Friday 28 June 13:00: Registration, Kings College London, Strand...
Folklore Fellows Communications on Open Access
Exciting news from Folklore Fellows Communications: ‘This is a quick note to inform you that we have launched our long-planned Open Access site for Folklore Fellows Communications volumes that are beyond the embargo period. ‘Since 2021, the publisher of the FFC series is the Kalevala Society Foundation (est. 1911), a highly esteemed institution of research...
…featuring Doc Rowe, and the Merry Month of May
The March 2024 issue of Country Living magazine has a feature on Doc Rowe’s recording and archiving of seasonal events: read a summary here, or subscribe for the whole article Also, the May 2024 issue of BBC Countryfile Magazine has a piece on Doc’s ’60 years documenting the strange rituals of Britain’: the magazine is available in newsagents...
Soundscapes and Folklore in East Asia
Soundscapes and Folklore in East Asia ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ The Eighth Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar Date: Thursday 24 October, 2024 Time: 10.00am to 5.00pm Location: 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Call for Papers The seminar series ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ encourages empirical and conceptual dialogue between the two related disciplines of folklore...