Katharine Briggs Award 2013

Date 6 November 2013 20:00

Location The Folklore Society, c / o The Warburg Institute

We are delighted to announce that The Katharine Briggs Award 2013 was won by Karl Bell for his book The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures, published by The Boydell Press.

Congratulations Karl.

The joint runners up were:

Julia Bishop and Steve Roud, The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Penguin)

and

Catherine Rider, Magic and Religion in Medieval England (Reaktion)