Photograpy, Folklore and Some Confusions A talk by Sara Hannant and Doc Rowe, 6.00 pm at The Warburg Institute. To book, contact thefolkloresociety@gmail.com
“Calendar Customs and Seasonal Events” Conference, 26-28 June 2015, at the University of Exeter, Students Guild From New Year’s mummers to Xmas carol singing, wassailing to well dressing, Easter eggs to Halloween lanterns, calendar customs and seasonal events mark the rhythm of the year and celebrate festive occasions in many different ways—some old, some new,...
In Britain, as elsewhere, folklore is currently in a peculiar position. Popular interest has rarely been greater. Scholarly research and publication continue. Given its foundation in comparative methodologies, folklore is ideally placed to be at the centre of the interdisciplinary research approaches being championed across academia. However, declining academic funding has marginalised folklore in regard...
Folklore Studies has a long history of scholarship that often goes unrecognised outside the ranks of Folklore scholars. It remains a minority discipline, even in countries where it has had a stronger academic recognition than it has in Britain. Despite its wide popular appeal, Folklore remains marginalised. The Folklore Society has been concerned for some...
“Cry, Lady, Cry”: Maternal Infanticide Narratives and the Vernacular Construction of Blame by Professor Diane Goldstein, Director of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University. After the lecture, there will be a wine reception and buffet supper during which we will announce the winners of this year’s Katharine Briggs Award, our inaugural Non-Print Media Award, and the FLS President’s Prize 2014
A Public Lecture by Simon Heywood (Storyteller, Songwriter, Folklorist) and Shonaleigh Cumbers (Drut’syla: Storyteller) The lecture is free and open to all. To book, call 0207 862 8564 or email enquiries@folklore-society.com Shonaleigh Cumbers is a drut’syla, a storyteller in a Jewish tradition inherited from her late grandmother, Edith Marks (d.1988), by whom she was trained...
War in Legend and Tradition 6-7 Sept 2014 With guns and drums and drums and guns, hurrah! Humming barrack-room ballads they march, flanked by the Comrade in White and the regimental goat. St.George descends on a winged horse to lead the faithful as the Russians advance with snow on their boots. Can this really be...
Following the great success of last year’s Sing, Say, Play evening at the pub, we’re hosting another get together for singing, playing and storytelling on Weds 18 June at the Duke [of York], Roger St, WC1N 2PB.
A joint conference of the Folklore Society and the Thomas Hardy Society together with the AGM of the Folklore Society 2014 at The Corn Exchange, Dorchester Attachments Booking form (word) programme and abstracts (pdf) Dorset County Museum Bible and Key exhibit. Photo Mark North (image) Dorset County Museum folklore exhibition 11-13 April 2014. Photo Mark North (image) Folklore & Hardy...
The female servant storyteller is a literary commonplace that runs from classical times via Mother Goose to Charles Dickens and beyond. So familiar is this figure that some recent critics have argued that she obscures the true history of folktales and storytelling. However, in nineteenth-century France, almost all future folklorists first heard folktales from servant...