Events
The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2026
10 November 2026 18:30 - 20:30
Speaker: Yinka Olusoga
The Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2026 will take place on Tuesday...Online Talk: Living Heritage
17 November 2026 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Matthew Cheeseman
Living Heritage A Folklore Society Online Talk by Matthew Cheeseman and Kay Dunn Tues 17 November,...The Fishermen’s Luck: The Maritime Clavie & its Variants
15 December 2026 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Fiona-Jane Brown
The annual 'Burning of the Clavie' New Year fire ceremony takes place in the fishing town of Burghead...Online Talk: Pageants and Revels: Spectacle, Dance and the Folkloresque Past
12 January 2027 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Juliette Wood
Pageants and Revels: Spectacle, Dance and the Folkloresque Past A Folklore Society Online Talk by Juliette...CALL FOR PAPERS: 'Folklore and the Natural World' The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference 2027
11 June 2027 - 13 June 2027
Our relationship with the natural world is central to our understanding of ourselves, our lives, and...Non-Folklore Society events, notices and calls for papers
Call for submissions: Wonder Tales: Critical and Creative Approaches
15 May 2026 - 31 December 2026
Wonder Tales: Critical and Creative Approaches Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa), Veronica Schanoes (Queens College, City University of New York), Elena Sottilotta (University... Read moreMelvyn Robinson: Hill Drawings — Landscape, Poetry and Folk Tradition
15 September 2026 - 11 January 2027, Cecil Sharp House, London NW1 7AY
A major exhibition of Melvyn Robinson’s Hill Drawings, inspired by the South Yorkshire landscape of his childhood. Bringing together paintings, poetry and folk songs, the exhibition explores landscape,... Read more'Plantlore' Exhibition
27 September 2026 - 15 November 2026, Chelsea Physic Garden, 66 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3 4HS
The exhibition explores early modern medicine and folklore through the lens of the pioneering female Victorian botanist Anne Pratt whose accessible publications helped introduce the study of plants to... Read more