Doc Rowe’s film of ‘Fenrir’s Fetter and the Power of Stories,’ by Katherine Langrish, the 2022 Katharine Briggs Lecture, can be watched on YouTube. Katherine Langrish, author of historical fantasies and essays on folklore and fairy tales, gave the lecture on Tuesday 8 November at 18:30 at Conway Hall, London ‘Fenrir’s Fetter and the Power...
Prof. Owen Davies, Folklore Society Presidential Address, 2022: ‘The Witch of Endor: A Study in History and Folklore’. Lecture delivered online and to a live audience at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT, Tuesday 28 June 2022, 17:30-18:30. Click here for the audio recording on YouTube. The Old Testament account, in 1 Samuel 28, of...
The Katharine Briggs Lecture 2021, given online on Tuesday 16 November 2021, 18:00-19:00 by Prof. Ian Russell (The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen) ‘Peace o’er the World’: Christmas Carolling in the Hope Valley For well over two and a half centuries the performance of distinctive carols has been a feature of the seasonal holiday of...
The Roy Palmer Lecture 2021, hosted online by The Folklore Society, Tuesday 2 November 2021, 19:00-20:00. ‘Brother Workmen: Solidarity in Trade Folklore,’ by Jeremy Harte (Curator, Bourne Hall Museum), on traditions and customs of solidarity among workers. Introduced by Martin Graebe, for The Roy Palmer Lecture. Click here for the Audio recording They worked in...
Prof. Owen Davies, Folklore Society Presidential Address, 2021 ‘Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry’. Lecture delivered online and to a live audience at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT, Tuesday 12 October 2021, 17:30-18:30. Click here for the audio recording on soundcloud.com