Could your lunchtime, once a month, do with more VAMPIRES? Why not sign up for the FREE online lunchtime bites - a 30 min talk once a month, each from a different speaker, on Dracula, vampires and all things vampire-adjacent! www.ticketsource.co.uk/draculalunch...

Lovely friend of our centre Peter Harrop is giving tonight's online talk from the Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social and we're told there's still time to book for what looks like a fascinating session!

Congratulations Abbi @draflint.bsky.social, this looks excellent!

Booking is open for the Traditional Song Forum's Autumn #Conference at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, Gloucester, 18 Oct. This free in-person event focuses on #folk #songs in #archives asking 'where can we find them and are they safe?' - more details here...🎵 tradsong.org/tsf-autumn-c...

We're over the moon that our @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social centre director Fay Hield has been awarded the @efdss.bsky.social Gold Badge. The Gold Badge is the highest award given by the #EFDSS for unique or outstanding contributions to folk music, dance or song. Congratulations Fay!

Fancy a folklore-flavoured book launch in time for spooky season? @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social and @odavies9.bsky.social will debut 'Folklore: A journey through the past and present' at this year's Off The Shelf Festival #Sheffield on 19 Oct. Details here #folklore offtheshelf.org.uk/events/folkl...

Coming Nov 2025 - our new ✨ 'Writing Folklore' ✨ group! A space for creative and academic #Folklore writing led by Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social, Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social and @cathbannister1.bsky.social. Join us on TUOS campus for community and creativity. More details soon! ✒️👨‍💻

CFP: Collateral Data - Repurposing lexica as ethnographic sources. Symposium @unibergen.bsky.social 23-24 April 2026 exploring how scholarly disciplines including #Folklore Studies use dictionaries and encyclopaedias as data sources. Abstracts of 300 words by 1 Dec. www.uib.no/ub/spesialsa...

If you're researching #fandoms, #DIY, #zines or other forms of creative expression related to fan cultures, this CFP might be for you? Special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures on Music Fandom. Deadline for final articles 1 Jan 2026. For more info see the link!

Booking now open for Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs 2-day conference at Cecil Sharp House, London, this November. More details on the event and how to book your place at the link #folk #trad #tunes 🎻

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...

CFP 📣!! Deadline 4 August!! The Traditional Song Forum #TSF welcomes abstracts on #Folk Songs in the Archive - Where can we find them and are they safe? for their autumn conference on 18 October at the Gloucestershire Archives. Details and full call at this link: tradsong.org/tsf-autumn-c...

CFP📣!! 'The Samhain Industry in Ireland', a 1 day symposium, Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie Ireland, 29 Oct 2025. Potential topics include: cultural policy, tourism, digital media, environment, #folklore, LGBTQI+, postcolonialism. Abstracts by 17 Sept👻 networks.h-net.org/system/files...

Looking for some folklore reading? You can check out publications by our members on our website! contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/folkloric-re...

Brilliant @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social member Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social will be In Conversation with the Society of Young Publishers about her debut novel, 30 Aug at The Mowbray, Sheffield, if any of you would like to pop along and hear about her folklore-inspired writing!

The amazing author (and @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social member) Ella Ruby Self has been chatting to Northern Voices about her debut novel Abraxus Elijah Honey @northodoxpress.bsky.social inspired by #folklore. You can listen to this lovely conversation on Soundcloud here: soundcloud.com/northern_voi...

Want to hear more about @lincsfolk.bsky.social ? Come to our free online #storytelling workshop Wed 16 July 12-1.30 with Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social and @rorywaterman.bsky.social plus @sabinelittle.bsky.social from Traditional Tales, Untraditionally Told: www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-story...

We loved ethnologist Simon Gall's captivating talk for our centre on playful #traditional family helpers. If you missed it, he's giving an online talk to the @folkloresociety.bsky.social in November. Recommended! 🎤🦭 folklore-society.com/event/online...

I am so excited for this workshop!

Congratulations to our brilliant @accessfolk.bsky.social colleagues on their team prize for open research @openresshef.bsky.social 🍾🎵

It was such a great turn out this lunchtime for an exceptional online seminar from @berrypillot.bsky.social on children's urban play and activities in WW2. Thanks to all who came along and to Berry for sharing some fascinating data.

FREE CFRC online storytelling workshop 16 July led by Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social and Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social of the @lincsfolk.bsky.social study and Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social of Traditional Tales, Untraditionally Told! Details👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-story...

Still time to submit an abstract for the next Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs conference! Wed love to know more about current work in this multifaceted and interdisciplinary field!

Booking for online attendance is still open for the Folklore Society's hybrid conference Folklore and the Senses if you can't make it to beautiful University College Cork. Details for the conference from 20-22nd June 2025 at the link!

Delighted that @berrypillot.bsky.social will be talking about her award-winning research on children's play in London and Liverpool in the Second World War as part of the @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social online seminar series on 25 June, 1-2.30 pm. See below to book your place!

Free CFRC online seminar from MA Public History student Berry Pillot de Chenecey on children's play during WW2! To join us on 25th June 1-2.30pm, you can book a free ticket via the link below. www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-semin...

for our last Lore and Lunch this summer we're talking Icelandic lullabies! To join us on 26th June 1-2pm to chat about the BBC World Service programme "Folklore, music and me: my chart-topping lullabies" available on BBC Sounds fill out the Google form on our webpage. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w....

Any friends and members interested in folk narrative? This conference next year in Iceland could be of interest to you!

As part of our Folklore Reimagined season, Yinka Olusoga and Catherine Bannister discuss how children are recreating festival traditions and seasonal customs in online spaces, and what lessons this can teach us about children’s digital play and wellbeing. Watch the full video here:

The Access Folk project @accessfolk.bsky.social is inviting responses to the team's communications survey, so please share and alert your folkie friends! This 15 min survey will help the project's research be useful and target findings. You can find it here #folk: shef.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Last chance to book! Steve Roud, creator of the Roud Folk Song Index, is presenting 'Folk Song in England': a six-week online evening course on the social history of traditional song and singing in England. We will be joined in week four by Dr Julia Bishop, Book your place now bit.ly/4hIF0tn

This might be of interest to some of our friends and members? Grants for folk practitioners to progress their work and extend their audience!

A few photos from the #TSF @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social 'Song and a Sense of Place' conference on Saturday, with some of our excellent speakers - Elizabeth Bennett on women in the margins @stepheharrop.bsky.social on her Northering project, and @draflint.bsky.social on songs for ramblers #tradsong

Huge thanks to everyone who made the #TSF and @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social conference 'Song and a Sense of Place' so special; we loved welcoming you to @sheffielduni.bsky.social! Thanks to all presenters for their fascinating papers exploring place in traditional song from diverse perspectives.

Sunshine in Sheffield today, at the 'Song and a Sense of Place' conference organised by the Traditional Song Forum, with @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social. Great to share emerging thinking about song, story, place, and the multiple imaginative landscapes in play in my Northering storytelling project.

It was great to share research from the www.allourfootsteps.uk project at the Traditional Song Forum yesterday. What a fantastic day with brilliant talks and chats in the breaks. Thanks TSF and @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social !

After last night's wild, northering stories at the beautiful @porticolibrary.bsky.social, I'm excited to be following up with a workshop on Wednesday 21 May. Get inspired by the strange old tales of the borders, through storytelling and creative writing ... www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

You can still book a place for our free in-person one day #conference with the Traditional Song Forum 'Song and a sense of place' at The University of Sheffield on 26th April. Booking details below, please share round your #tradsong networks! #folk #song tradsong.org/tsf-spring-c...

Programme and Abstracts now available for 'Folklore and the Digital: One-day Online conference,' Sat 29 March folklore-society.com/event/folklo... Tickets £30 (£20 for Folklore Society members with the Promo Code) from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-a...?

Listening to a fascinating @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social seminar from Simon Gall of Expressing Scotland on his #folklore #familylore fieldwork into children's mediascapes and playful personalised traditional helper figures and characters in family life @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

Deadline Extended!📣📣📣 The 42nd Perspectives on Contemporary Legend conference has extended the deadline for abstracts for papers on the until March 31st! Email your abstract, no more than 250–300 words to [email protected] bit.ly/3EQd9c4

Thanks to @mariamyamin.bsky.social and @uoscollections.bsky.social for supporting our visit with participatory research with CYP students from the #SoE to the Archive of Cultural Tradition #Folklore this week! It was amazing to see some of the collection of children's materials.

Still time to conjure up an abstract for this - the 42nd Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Conference - before tomorrow's deadline #folklore #contemporarylegend #urbanlegend

If you're interested in the folk scene in and around Sheffield, here's an interesting guide to our city's folk music / arts including a guide to Sheffield's folk history.

Job Alert!!! Research Assistant @uniofnottingham.bsky.social working with the English Place-Name Society on 'The Place-Names of Herefordshire'. Could suit a folklorist, or anyone interested in medieval / early modern history or lit. Deadline 14 March. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Still time to get your ticket for our free!! online seminar 25th March from ethnologist Simon Gall on families' invented helper figures: 'Sally the Seal, Roboto and Other Traditional Helper Figures in Family Life'. Details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sally-the-...

On 11th April, Melanie Giles & I will speak about "Fenlore: Creative Conversations between #Folklore & Archaeology in Lincolnshire’s Peatlands" at LFT Symposium (Nottingham). It's FREE with a full day of fascinating talks on aspects of folklores of place: lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/symposium/

#AccessFolk and North Atlantic Song Convention #NASC are partnering with Manchester Folk Festival on Sat 22 March for a 1-day convention. Esbjörn Wettermark @esbwet.bsky.social will share findings from Access Folk's research with folk singers in England: www.northatlanticsong.com/events/1-day...

Mon 3 March @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social working group member @bramleytweets.bsky.social is chairing a Q&A of producers and academics at the screening of In the Veins/The Longest Year at the Showroom Cinema marking 40 yrs since the miners' strike. For info 👇 www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/intheveins