Next week: join us for our online talk: Rosalind Kerven, ''Green' myths, legends and folk tales.' A journey through global folk narratives and wisdom about the world’s environmental problems. Tue 23 June 7-8:30pm BST. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.com/e/green-myth...

'Trade in Legend & Tradition: The Twentieth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society'. 5-6 September 2026 in Exeter at Tuckers Hall, home of the Guild of Tuckers, Weavers and Shearmen. ⏰Deadline for proposals & registration: 1 July 2026⏰ folklore-society.com/event/-legen...

📣Two weeks left to get your proposals in for ‘When Loud Rumour Speaks’: Informal communication in the modern online world. The Tenth Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar. Thursday 15 October 2026. ⏰ Proposal deadline 30 Jun 2026 ⏰ www.folklore-society.com/event/call-f...

A huge thank you to all who participated in our conference 'Folklore on the Move' in Aberdeen last weekend & online on Wednesday. It was amazing to hear so many excellent presentations and to meet so many great people. Special thanks to Nicolas Le Bigre & everyone at the Elphinstone Institute.

📣In-person registration closes this Friday, 15th May!📣 'Folklore on the Move': The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference 2026, in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute. 5 - 7 June at the University of Aberdeen and 10 June online. Register here: www.folklore-society.com/event/folklo...

📣Call for Papers📣 'Trade in Legend and Tradition: The Twentieth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society'. 5-6 September 2026 in Exeter at Tuckers Hall, home of the Guild of Tuckers, Weavers and Shearmen. Deadline for proposals and registration: 1 July 2026 www.folklore-society.com/event/-legen...

To mark the opening of entries to the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Prize 2026 we are able to offer the chance to win a copy of last year's winner, 'The Brothers Grimm: A Biography' by Ann Schmiesing. Enter by Monday 9 March. Details: www.folklore-society.com/blog/post/co...

The Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Prize 2026 has opened for entries! Open to books in English having their initial publication in the UK & Ireland in the period from 1 June 2025 to 31 May 2026. Deadline for entries 31 May 2026. More info and rules: www.folklore-society.com/awards/the-k...

Next week: join us for our next online talk: George Monger, 'Folklore in the Computer Age'. Tuesday 24 February, 19:00-20:30 GMT on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-i...

We are very sad to learn of the death of Dr Neil Philip, folklorist, writer, poet, & long-standing member of The Folklore Society. Jack Zipes says: ‘He was one of the most kind and helpful people I ever knew. … He was a superb scholar and devoted to the study of folklore.’

📢Call for Papers📢 ‘When Loud Rumour Speaks’: Informal communication in the modern online world. The Tenth Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar. Thursday 15 October 2026. Proposal deadline 30 Jun 2026 www.folklore-society.com/event/call-f...

Next week: join us for our next online talk: Niamh Lawlor, 'How Early Twentieth-Century Modernity Gave Avebury Its Folklore'. Tuesday 10 February, 19:00-20:30 GMT on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-early-...

Due to high demand, extra tickets for tonight's online talk are now available! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-myster...

Next week: join us for our last online talk of 2025: James Frost, 'The Hooden Horse of Kent'. Tuesday 16 December, 19:00-20:30 GMT on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hooden...

The Estella Canziani Post-Graduate Bursary for Research: the deadline for applications to this year's bursary is Friday 5 December 2025. For details on how to apply, see www.folklore-society.com/awards/the-e...

Doc Rowe took this lovely photo of Barbara yesterday evening—using my phone :-)

Our Katharine Briggs Lecture, last night @swedenborghouse.bsky.social, was given by Professor Terry Gunnell, Professor Emeritus in Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. Thank you, Terry, for your fantastic lecture! It was a wonderful evening, thanks to all who came!

We are also delighted to announce the winner of the Doc Rowe Award (formally the Non-Print Media Award): King for a Day by Barbara Santi (dir.) Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that the winner of The Katharine Briggs Award 2025 is Ann Schmiesing, for her book ‘The Brothers Grimm: A Biography,’ published by Yale University Press. Congratulations! yale-university-press-uk.imgix.net/covers/97803...

The Open University awards Steve Roud the honorary degree of Doctor of the University in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the study of folk song and vernacular culture. Congratulations Steve, our former Folklore Society Hon Librarian

@nfsengland.bsky.social's released their first tranche of results at The Folklore Society HQ on Monday. Here are some of their findings about how people celebrate Halloween in England. Happy Halloween, however and wherever you're celebrating! 👻🎃🐈‍⬛ Image illustration: Jonny Ford

Show us yer neeps (and other assorted veg/fruit lanterns)

Thurs 23 October, 10:00-17:00 BST: 'Folklore & Anthropology in Conversation: Revisiting Oral Narrative'--joint symposium of @folkloresociety.bsky.social and The RAI. Tickets are free. In-person attendance is fully booked but places still available to attend online: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A new edition of Katharine Briggs's Dictionary of Fairies was published last month, illustrated by Fee Greening. In tomorrow's online talk, Fee will be in conversation about her illustrations for the book, as well as her other work and influences. 7 Oct, 7pm BST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fee-greeni...

📢The Folklore Society President’s Prize 2025: deadline 30 Sept 2025📢 The Prize is awarded to a folklore studies essay by a student on a relevant undergraduate or post-graduate or equivalent course at a university/institution of HE or FE in the UK or Republic of Ireland. tinyurl.com/423xwexv

This year's Newer Researchers in Folklore Day is on 26 Sept 2025, 10:00–16:00 @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social. Experts will run informative & interactive sessions on material culture of folklore, fieldwork, ethics, & more. More info & booking a free place: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

The Folklore and the Senses conference has come to an end 🥲 Thank you to everyone for making it so fantastic: the speakers, attendees, and in particular to Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie for organising and keeping things running smoothly and hosting us at your beautiful campus!

‘The Mountain who Stumbled, and the Lake who Eats Girls’—join us on 3 June at 19:00 BST for Eric Hoenes del Pinal’s talk about ‘other-than-human beings’ in the Guatemalan landscape. Tickets £6.00 from: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mounta...?

Join us next week for our next online talk: Dr Karl Bell on 'Seafarers and Sea-Fearing: Nineteenth-Century Maritime Folklore'. Tuesday 20 May 2025, 19:00-20:30 BST. Tickets £6 (£4 for FLS Members with the Promo Code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seafarers-...

Folklore and the Senses: check out our amazing line-up of speakers for our forthcoming hybrid conference, 20-22 June, online and at University College Cork. View the programme, and download the booking form, here: folklore-society.com/event/folklo...