The Katharine Briggs Award 2023: Short List
We are very pleased to announce the short list for this year’s Katharine Briggs Award Short List (in alphabetical order) Catherine Bannister, Scouting and Guiding in Britain: The Ritual Socialisation of Young People (Palgrave Macmillan) Marion Gibson, The Witches of St Osyth: Persecution, Betrayal and Murder in Elizabethan England (Cambridge University Press) Michael Heaney, The Ancient English Morris...
Healthy Folk: new fully funded PhD: Applications now open
Healthy Folk – The role of vernacular knowledge in health-related decision-making Applications are invited for an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award at The Open University, in partnership with The Folklore Society. This fully-funded studentship is available from October 2024. Further details about the value of an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP award are available on the...
Bodylore – The role of shared stories in making contraceptive choices 3rd – 8th Oct 2023 Pop-up Exhibition, at the Truman Brewery, 11 Dray Walk, London, E1 6QL Opening hours: Tues 3rd – Fri 6th Oct: 11-6pm Sat 7th & Sunday 8th Oct: 11-5pm From gossip in the school corridors, to a sitcom storyline, or...
Brian McConnell Book Award 2023
Congratulations to Simon Young, winner of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research‘s Brian McConnell Book Award 2023, for his book ‘The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends’ https://upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Nail-in-the-Skull-and-Other-Victorian-Urban-Legends…
Report from Claire Slack re Estella Canziani Bursary 2023
A Week in Glastonbury Thanks to the Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research 2023, I was able to undertake my first fieldwork trip to Glastonbury in April/May 2023 as part of my Professional Doctorate in Heritage with the University of Hertfordshire. I came home a week later with over 19,000 words of fieldwork notes and...
Katharine Briggs Lecture 2022: recording
Doc Rowe very kindly filmed the 2022 Katharine Briggs Lecture, given at Conway Hall, London, on Tuesday 8 November at 18:30, by Katherine Langrish: ‘Fenrir’s Fetter and the Power of Stories.’ Doc’s film can be watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID3KbgJiimw
Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain: Exhibition Review
Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain: Exhibition 11 February to 11 June 2023, at Compton Verney Review by Sophia Kinsghill This exhibition displays costumes from around Britain and across the seasons, from historic relics to modern creations, from nostalgic evocation of rural community to the glamour of carnival. Curators Simon Costin, Mellany Robinson, and Amy...
Lincolnshire Folklore: Ethel Rudkin and Mabel Peacock
North Lincolnshire Museum at Scunthorpe holds important collections of materials of interest to scholars of Lincolnshire folklore: The Ethel Rudkin Collection, with all her publications, her library of folklore and history books, plus photographs, notes and ephemera: https://northlincolnshiremuseum.co.uk/discover/ethel-rudkin-1893-1984/ The Peacock family archive, with diaries, photographs, correspondence, notes relating to folklorist Mabel Peacock, and to her...