Previous Folklore Society Events
The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2025
11 November 2025 18:00
The Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2025 will take place on Tuesday...CANCELLED Online Talk: Sally the Seal, Roboto, and Other Traditional Helper Figures in Family Life
4 November 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Simon Gall
Sally the Seal, Roboto, and Other Traditional Helper Figures in Family Life A Folklore Society online...Online Talk: The Legend, Lore and Spirit of the Water Horse: From Ancient Myth to Celtic Folklore
4 November 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Stephen Miller
The Legend, Lore and Spirit of the Water Horse: From Ancient Myth to Celtic Folklore A Folklore Society...Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History
23 October 2025 10:00 - 17:00
‘Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History’ Ninth ‘Folklore and...Online Talk: From a Cornfield to the Gothic: an Appreciation of the Scarecrow
21 October 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Juliette Wood
From a Cornfield to the Gothic: An Appreciation of the Scarecrow A Folklore Society online talk by Juliette...Online Talk: Artist Fee Greening in conversation: Katharine Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies
7 October 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Fee Greening
Artist Fee Greening in conversation: Katharine Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies A Folklore Society...CANCELLED Online Talk: Underground Folklore of Britain and Ireland–Sacred Sites
7 October 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Joanne McFall
Underground Folklore of Britain and Ireland–Sacred Sites A Folklore Society online talk, by Joanne...Newer Researchers in Folklore Day
26 September 2025 10:00 - 16:00
The Folklore Society’s Newer Researchers Day is a biennial event welcoming all researchers with...Online Talk: 50 Years of Plant-Lore Collecting
23 September 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Roy Vickery
50 Years of Plant-Lore Collecting A Folklore Society online talk by Roy Vickery Tuesday 23 September...