Previous Folklore Society Events

• 24th — 25th June 2010
• Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

International conference at the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

• 26th — 28th March 2010
• The Warburg Institute

This year’s subject was ‘The Supernatural.’ Attachments  Abstracts (pdf)  Flyer (pdf)  Provisional programme (pdf)

• 10th November 2009
• The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

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...

• 5th — 6th September 2009
• Time & Tide, the maritime museum at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk

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...

• 8th July 2009

“The Songs and the Singer” A Folklore Society Summer Event, with film and music at The Warburg Institute. Attachments  See the flyer (pdf)

• 29th January — 25th April 2009

English Folk Dance and Song Society in association with The Folklore Society

• 25th April 2009
• Bishopsgate Institute, London

Organised by The South East London Folklore Society and Bishopsgate Institute Library, in association with The Folklore Society

• 24th April 2009
• The Bishopsgate Institute, Bishopsgate London EC2M 4QH

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)

• 11th November 2008
• The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

This year’s lecture is “Giving Folk back to the Folk”, by Malcolm Taylor, OBE, Librarian of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. From 7.30 p.m., there will be a wine reception and buffet supper for Folklore Society members and invited guests, during which we will announce the winner of this year’s Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.

• 20th — 21st September 2008
• Bishop's Palace at Wells

Speakers include: Janet Dowling on Giants in Churches; David Phelps and Valerie Dean on The Martyrdom of St. Ethelbert; Mark Lewis on The Sacred Threshold; David Hunt on Church Legends of Georgia; John Clark on London Churches and their Foundation Legends; Bob Trubshaw on The Minds of Medieval Masons; Chloe Cockerill on Unicorns in Churches;...