This year’s lecturer is Professor Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol) “How Pagan were Medieval English Peasants?” Followed by a wine reception and buffet supper. We are delighted to announce that the Katharine Briggs Award 2010 was presented on 10 November to Arthur Taylor for his book “Played in Britain: The Pub Games of Britain” published by...
Death in Legend & Tradition: – a Folklore Society Legendary Weekend. 4-5 September 2010, Brompton Cemetery, London SW10.
International conference at the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
This year’s subject was ‘The Supernatural.’ Attachments Abstracts (pdf) Flyer (pdf) Provisional programme (pdf)
We are delighted to announce that this year’s Katharine Briggs Lecture will be given by Professor John Widdowson, former president of The Folklore Society: Folklore Studies in English Higher Education: Lost Cause or New Opportunity? The lecture is from 6.30-7.30 p.m., followed by a wine reception and buffet supper during which the judges’ decisions on...
This two-day conference at the Time & Tide, the maritime museum at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, will be held on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September 2009 as the fourth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society. We’d like to hear from anyone who can attend and present a paper – folklorists, performers, historians, singers and...
“The Songs and the Singer” A Folklore Society Summer Event, with film and music at The Warburg Institute. Attachments See the flyer (pdf)
English Folk Dance and Song Society in association with The Folklore Society
Organised by The South East London Folklore Society and Bishopsgate Institute Library, in association with The Folklore Society
There will be talks on: early folklorists’ collections of artefacts; photographing and filming seasonal customs; Korean folktale collectors; folk song collecting; and many other topics; as well as the Presidential Address by Eddie Cass. Attachments Download the programme (pdf) Download the booking form/flier (pdf)