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- Town Hall event: FLS Membership Survey 2023 update and next steps
- The Soldier’s Tale: Folklore Society Presidential Address 2025 and AGM
- A History of Folklore: Online Course, 2025-26
- President’s Prize 2025
- Book launch for Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies
- EFDSS Online Course: Folk Song in England
- Lying in Legend and Tradition: The Nineteenth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society
- Invitation to apply for membership of The Folklore Society Council 2025
- Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees, Boggarts & Other Folklore Creatures
- Newer Researchers in Folklore Day
- Echoes of Padstow project website now live
- The Folklore Society’s Doc Rowe Award 2025
- Folklore Reimagined: 2025 events at The British Academy
- Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research 2025
- Call for Papers: ‘Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History’
- Director for The Folklore Centre, Todmorden: Funding Lead
- The Folklore Society Advent Calendar 2024, Part 4
- Andrew Bennett
- The Folklore Society’s Advent Calendar 2024 Part 3
- The Folklore Society’s Advent Calendar 2024, Part 2
- The Folklore Society President’s Prize 2024
- The Folklore Society’s Advent Calendar 2024
- Ronald Hutton awarded the Coote Lake Medal
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2024
- Folklore and the Senses: Call for Papers
- Liz Overs in Performance
- The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2024
- Dracula Returns: A Conference and Celebration. Call for Papers
- Folklore Without Borders: November Meeting
- Announcing the National Folklore Survey
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2024: Short List
- Call for papers: Transnational Folklore: Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century History of Folklore Studies
- Being Human Festival: Fangs and Folklore
- Mermaids: Fish, Flesh or Fowl?
- A History of Folklore: Online Course
- Alice Gomme: Game Collector
- President's Prize 2024
- The Sailor's Tale: Folklore Society Presidential Address 2024 and AGM
- Water in Legend and Tradition - Saturday 31 August and Sunday 1 September 2024
- The Folklore, Superstitions and Customs of Sussex
- The Wishing Tree of Loch Maree
- Coote Lake Medal awarded to Steve Roud
- Digital Folklore: hybrid conference Programme
- Folklore Fellows Communications on Open Access
- ...featuring Doc Rowe, and the Merry Month of May
- Soundscapes and Folklore in East Asia
- Water in Legend and Tradition
- Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research 2024
- Exhibition at The National Library of Scotland: Sgeul / Story : Folktales from the Scottish Highlands
- UK Government Consultation on Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Folklore Society President's Prize 2023
- Dr Gillian Bennett (1939-2023)
- Tolkien letter to Katharine Briggs in Folklore Society Archives
- Doc Rowe in the News
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2023
- William Francis Ryan (1937-2023)
- Halloween 2023
- Digitising Doc Rowe: Crowdfunder and New Film about his Work
- Folk Dance: Grappling with Tradition conference
- RAI Research Seminar on Alfred Cort Haddon
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2023: Short List
- Healthy Folk: new fully funded PhD: Applications now open
- Bodylore
- Brian McConnell Book Award 2023
- Report from Claire Slack re Estella Canziani Bursary 2023
- Katharine Briggs Lecture 2022: recording
- Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain: Exhibition Review
- Lincolnshire Folklore: Ethel Rudkin and Mabel Peacock
- 100 Years of Morris Dancing on May Morning in Oxford
- Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research 2023
- Report from Jessica Lloyd re Estella Canziani Bursary 2022
- Report from Georgina Rowe re Estella Canziani Bursary 2022
- Season's Greetings
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2022
- ISFNR Interim Conference 2022
- Marking the Death of the Queen
- Princess: BBC Sounds podcast with Juliette Wood
- A Message in Support of the People of Ukraine
- Wiki Loves Folklore competition 2022
- Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research 2022
- Winner of our Non-Print Media Award 2021
- Jonathan Hui Wins the Katharine Briggs Award 2021
- Indexes to Folklore, 1878-1957 and 1958-1967
- Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research
- FLS Library New Accessions Jan 2020-Sept 2021
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2021 Shortlist
- All FLS News back issues now available in the Members' area
- 'Henry Glassie: Field Work'
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2020
- Past Presidents of The Folklore Society
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2020
- Non-Print Media Award 2021
- Extract from FLS News no.92, Nov 2020
- Anatoly Liberman responds to John Hines's Review
- We Herts Folklorists 4!
- We Herts Folklorists 3!
- Free Downloads of Owen Davies' Articles in Folklore from 23 Oct to 31 Dec 2020
- We Herts Folklorists 2
- Special Blog Series: We Herts Folklorists
- Virtual Special Issue: Dragons
- More from Whitby Folk Week at Home
- Doc Rowe's Locked-Down Freed-Up - Whitby@Home 2020
- CANCELLED: Folklore, Learning and Literacies Conference 24-26 April 2020
- Folklore Society Library: new accessions 2019
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2019
- Katharine Briggs Award 2019--Short List
- The Folklore Society office at 50 Fitzroy St, London W1T 5BT
- Folklore Society office new address
- Last Chance: £1 book sale Weds 17 July, 5-7:30 pm
- Gillian Bennett receiving her Coote Lake medal
- The Folklore Society office is moving
- Prof. William Gray
- MA in Folklore Studies at the University of Hertfordshire
- Book Sale 27 February
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2018
- FLS News, the newsletter of the Folklore Society: Call for Contributions
- Estella Canziani Bursary for Post-graduate Research
- Book Sale: second hand folklore books and back issues of 'Folklore'
- Katharine Briggs Award 2017
- Iona Opie (1923-2017)
- Katharine Briggs Award 2017 - Short List
- Venetia Newall
- Special award to Robert McDowall
- 'New Beginnings in Folklore', by J.D.A. Widdowson
- Non-print Media Award
- Katharine Briggs Award
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2016: Short List
- Stewart Sanderson
- Food and Drink in Legend and Tradition
- Reflected Shadows: Folklore and the Gothic
- David Buchan Lecture 2015
- W.F.H. 'Bill' Nicolaisen (1927-2016)
- The Texts of Charms, The Contexts of Charming
- December issue of Folklore now out
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2015
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2015: Shortlisted entries
- The Concealed Revealed
- Francis Young on St Edmund
- Norman Peacock
- Folklore vol.126, no.2, 2015
- William John Thoms
- Calendar Customs and Seasonal Events conference
- Jacqueline Simpson and Sir Terry Pratchett
- The Katharine Briggs Lecture 2014
- Newer Researchers in Folklore 20 Nov 2014
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2014
- Non-Print Media Award 2014
- Folklore Society President's Prize 2014
- Eddie Cass
- Don Yoder Graduate and William A. Wilson Undergraduate Paper Prizes - Call for Submissions
- The Mari Llwyd in Wales
- Newer Researchers in Folklore Studies Conference
- Malcolm Taylor
- Jacqueline Simpson on The Folklore of Discworld at the London Fortean Society
- Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research 2014
- New: Folklore Society Non-Print Media Award
- 2013 President's Prize
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2013
- Canziani Bursary 2013
- The Full English
- The Coote Lake Medal for Research
- New Book: Alliteration In Culture
- Folklore Society Library News
- The Katharine Briggs Book Award 2011 Winner
- Memorial Offerings
- Folklore and Legends of Lincolnshire
- Thomas Fairman Ordish
- A Tribute to William John Thoms (1803-1885), Creator of Folklore
- Jacqueline Simpson appointed Visiting Professor at Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy
- H-Folk: H-Net Network on Folklore
- Book Notice: The Folklore of Discworld
