Don’t miss this wonderful talk with Roy Vickery looking at queer plant lore, can’t wait as this is such a new and unique topic! 🌸 Plus support the Centre while in hibernation. 💚 Ticket holders will be sent a replay link to watch at your leisure. Tickets: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

Tickets still available for our Katharine Briggs Lecture & Book Award 2025. Terry Gunnell, you say? Live in London? At the wonderful @swedenborghouse.bsky.social? With wine and snacks? And a load of folklorists? It's going to be a great evening! Tues 11 Nov, 6pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...

Next week! I'm so looking forward to seeing the great Terry Gunnell speak, and to the whole evening! Tickets are still available if you're going to be in London next Tuesday evening and fancy it www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...

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

Good news!

Hey look! Some of our Folklore Society Library & Archive material is included in this digital collection

Call for applications! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝 1/3

Really looking forward to chairing next week's online talk - Roy Vickery on five decades of collecting and studying plant folklore. Get your tickets at the link below! 🍀🍂🌿

Not too late to pick up a ticket for this tonight. Sounds amazing, and Peter's a terrific scholar (and lovely bloke), so it'll be well worth your time.

Folklore. FREE - my 3 Folklore Society Presidential Lectures on: Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

Bears repeating: the noise comes from a tiny minority. But a loud minority with influence, money, privilege and reach. Most of us have only love and support for our trans siblings chng.it/kP42RRHM95

Jonathan Gullis "I'm sick of seeing the Palestine flag all over the place" Lets make him sick.

Be the fairest of them all. Depend on the hero, he knows best. Marry the prince & live happily ever after. But folklore doesn't only reinforce gender stereotypes; it also promotes female empowerment. I'm talking on this in Birmingham 28 Aug -NEARLY SOLD OUT! booking.glee.co.uk/22547

Places are still available for the Newer Researchers in Folklore Day next month, Friday 26 September, at ​The Folklore Centre in Todmorden. This is a free event but places do need to be booked www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

I will be asking to remove 'Queer As Folklore' from the long list for the Polari Prize 2025.

Marina's new book, Sanctuary, is extraordinary, and I'm looking forward to this talk next Tuesday.

For the last online talk before our summer break we're delighted to be welcoming Professor Dame Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social for her talk 'How to Create Sanctuary Now?’ Tuesday 15 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-cre...

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!

Today, UK MPs are voting on substantial reform to abortion law. Abortion is currently permitted under certain circumstances. Outside of these circumstances, abortion care is regulated by a Victorian law. The reform would protect people from arrest and imprisonment for ending their own pregnancy.

This time next week I'll be heading to Cork for our conference @ucc.ie 'Folklore and the Senses'. I'm so looking forward to it! Online tickets are still available if you'd like to join us virtually

Looking forward to MERL's Romany and Traveller Heritage Day on Saturday! merl.reading.ac.uk/event/romany...

📣The deadline for in-person registration for our hybrid conference Folklore and the Senses is tomorrow, Thursday 5 June, 17:00 BST.📣 Booking for online participants will remain open until 21 June. Day rates are available folklore-society.com/event/folklo...

Looking forward to tomorrow's @folkloresociety.bsky.social online talk from Eric Hoenes del Pinal on the other-than-human beings of Guatemala's Verapaz. Tickets are still available, see the link below

Calendars at the ready: it's just over a month until our Romany and Traveller History Day on 14 June! Come for a special day celebrating the stories of our Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities + music, blacksmithing, talks, our new GRT gallery launch, & more. merl.reading.ac.uk/event/romany...

Good morning, and some witches to deal with the vile ones.

there's a lot we can learn from animals. such as: wearing sunscreen, sunbathing in compost, and generally being a pig

our café has been ranked one of the top 50 museum cafés in the UK! thank you, @theguardian.com! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

I'm so excited to announce that mine & @odavies9.bsky.social book 'Folklore: A journey through the past & present' will be out this September! 'The book's key message is that folklore...is and always has been ubiquitous, dynamic and political' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180384/

Folklore and the Digital online conference: following our ‘Digital Folklore’ conference in June 2024, we're holding a one-day online conference on ‘Folklore and the Digital’ on Saturday 29 March, 09:30-17:30 GMT. Tickets £30 (£20 for FLS members with Promo Code) folklore-society.com/event/folklo...

Our new website is live! Please visit and learn all about the project, the team and what we hope to achieve: www.nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk

Call for Papers: Lying in Legend and Tradition: The Nineteenth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society will be held on Saturday 6th - Sunday 7th September 2025 at Tullie House, Carlisle. Submission deadline: 1st July 2025. folklore-society.com/event/lying-...

Call for Papers: ‘Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History’. The Ninth ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ joint seminar of The Royal Anthropological Institute & The Folklore Society, Thurs 23 Oct 2025. Proposal deadline 30 Jun 2025. folklore-society.com/blog-post/ca...

Kathleen is an amazing person, scholar, and teacher, and it would be a terrible shame if she can't find a place to support her.

To give more time for submissions (I've received fewer than ten so far), I'm extending the BIPOC-only submission call through the end of February. Got a horror/Weird fiction collection? Send it my way! cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Permanent full time Lectureship in Archaeology (Museum Studies) in my lovely department at UCC! Join us! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

Thinking about Saint Valentine today? Want to learn more? Come long to @folkloresociety.bsky.social's next online talk from @dinoboy89.bsky.social @saintpodcast.bsky.social on 'the ersatz patron of love'. Tuesday 18th February 19:00 GMT on Zoom.

Exciting news! A free-to-attend summer school in September in Oxford on fantasy with publishers, authors and experts, generously sponsored by Bloomsbury. All the details here: fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk/home

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 The CREMS Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2025! Come join us in York (24th - 25th June) to tackle the gnarly question - what is a witch? Answers in abstract form, please - due 14th March 😊🧙‍♀️

Ten days left to submit your proposals for our annual conference 'Folklore and the Senses', in Cork and online, 20-22 June 2025.

This is tomorrow!

Did your period come unexpectedly and now you've got blood stains on your clothes? Always use *cold* water to rinse, and often that'll be sufficient on its own to remove fresh stains. It has to be cold. Here's why...

Really looking forward to tomorrow night's Folklore Society online talk from Rosalind Kerven, on 'Women in Viking Age Folk Narratives'. Tickets are still available. Note the later start time of 7pm

Why not start the new year by writing a proposal for the Folklore Society's 2025 conference 'Folklore and the Senses'? Proposal deadline is 31 January. The conference will be online and in Cork, hosted by our collaborators the Department of Folklore & Ethnology at @ucc.bsky.social, 20-22 June 2025

Saw three brilliant, free exhibitions at @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social today: 'Write Cut Rewrite', 'Oracles, Omens and Answers' and 'Magna Carta 1225'. 'Write Cut Rewrite' is only on until 5 Jan, but the others are on until the end of April. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/events-exhib...

Received some lovely books for Christmas 😊📚 @magicnotwitches.bsky.social @witchesetc.bsky.social @HettaHowes

Loved this episode. I know a little about (modern) Scottish stone lifting but nothing about Irish stone lifting (which is indeed the point of David's work)! The way he talks about the stones and the tradition, and how moved he is, is moving in itself.

23 Dec Elves 'You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf, now get ready for'... more dangerous ones. Treat them with respect or you might get elf-shot or worse. Read J. Simpson 'On the Ambiguity of Elves' (Folklore 2011), & A. Hall 'Getting shot of Elves' (Folklore 2005) Image details in Alt Text