Exploring the imagined life story of a seventeenth-century witch bottle through animation. An online talk for The Folklore Society. In the summer of 2020 Nigel Jeffries (Museum of London Archaeology), Owen Davies (President of the Folklore Society), and animator Laura-Beth Cowley (University of the West of England) teamed up to explore the imagined life story...
Traditions of Death and Burial: Exploring English death and burial customs from the medieval era to the present day. an online talk by Dr Helen Frisby Tuesday 9 March 2021 18:00–19:30 GMT Death has been a source of grief and uncertainty for humanity throughout history, but it has also been the inspiration for a plethora...
The Katharine Briggs Lecture, which was postponed from November 2020, will take place as an online lecture via Zoom on Tuesday 23 February 2021 from 17:00. The lecture will be given by Dr Juliette Wood (University of Cardiff): ‘“I Cannot Find the Hanged Man”: Tarot Cards in Fantastic Fiction’. This will be followed by the...
CANCELLED: The Annual Conference of the Folklore Society, and Annual General Meeting 2020. Due to the uncertainties arising from the spread of COVID-19 virus we have decided to cancel this year’s conference. We hope to be able to reschedule the conference at a later date Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Rosen: “‘Don’t say that!’ –...
The Katharine Briggs Lecture 2019 This year’s Katharine Briggs Lecture will be given by Prof. Dr Ulrika Wolf-Knuts (Åbo Akademi University): “What Can We Do With Old Records of Folk Belief? On the Example of Devil Lore” Tuesday 29 October, from 17:30, at The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB. After the lecture, we...
Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation: The Fifth Joint Seminar of The Folklore Society and The Royal Anthropological Institute Thursday 24 October 2019, at The Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT This year’s joint seminar will be on the theme of “AFRICA” This one-day symposium will explore ethnographic and folkloric issues, modern and...
Costume in Legend and Tradition: 31st August– 1st September 2019 at Blackburn Museum, BB1 7AJ, UK “What have we here, hempen hampen? St. Martin has cut the feather cloak of the swanwife into an ale-conner’s breeches. Tell her to buy me a cambric shirt and tie a knot in the handkerchief. We will stitch...
We are holding a final book sale at The Warburg Institute, selling off at £1 per copy/issue our remaining stocks of FLS Books and Mistletoe series as well as back numbers of our journal Folklore 1976-2013, plus assorted second hand books, on Wednesday 17 July from 5 to 7.30 pm in the Common Room at The...