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...

Tickets are still available for tonight's Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award at Swedenborg House in London (despite Eventbrite having said for the past couple of hours that sales had ended - that's been rectified now)

Looking forward to @folkloresociety.bsky.social Katharine Briggs Lecture & Book Award *and* the Doc Rowe Award! Details below! #folklore

Tickets are still available for tomorrow evening's Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award, with the lecture this year by the great Professor Terry Gunnell!

The wonderful Dr Juliette Wood from @folkloresociety.bsky.social answers folklore questions for @wired.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=i61j... (Thanks to @saydescarlett.substack.com for the find)

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...

Tomorrow!

Terry is an excellent speaker. This is worth going to if you can. Sadly I can’t, but highly recommended.

Not long now until the Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award, & we're really looking forward to it! We're delighted that this years lecturer is Professor Terry Gunnell, & after the lecture we'll announce the winner of this year's book award. Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...

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)

Did you know that just over a quarter of people in England carve pumpkins at Halloween? 🎃 (Source: our survey!) We want to see yours - send us photos!

We were delighted to have the @nfsengland.bsky.social team at Folklore Society HQ yesterday for the National Folklore Survey for England press conference! Keep a look out this week for more news articles about the first tranche of results

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

Join us on Tues 4 November, 19:00 GMT for 'The Legend, Lore and Spirit of the Water Horse,' online talk by Stephen Miller. Tickets £6.00 (£4.00 for FLS members with Promo Code) from: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-legend...?

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...

Looking forward to this talk this evening, love a bit of scarecrow lore

Tonight!

Next week: join us for our next online talk: Dr Juliette Wood on 'From a Cornfield to the Gothic: An Appreciation of the Scarecrow'. Tuesday 21 October, 19:00-20:30 BST on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-a-cor...

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...

📢Call for Papers📢 ‘Folklore on the Move’: The Folklore Society’s annual conference 2026 in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. In person conference: 5-7 Jun 2026; online conference day: 10 Jun 2026. Proposal deadline 14 Dec www.folklore-society.com/event/call-f...

Join us on Tues for our next online talk: Fee Greening in conversation about her work, influences, and her illustrated edition of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies, published last month. Tues 7 Oct, 19:00 BST on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fee-greeni...

What a wonderful day for the #CFRC 'crew' at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social! We had a brilliant time networking and workshopping with the next generation of #folklore researchers! Thrilled to have supported this event with @folkloresociety.bsky.social and @herts.ac.uk

So many interesting conversations with up-and-coming folklore researchers! Thanks to the @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social for excellent hospitality and @folkloresociety.bsky.social for hosting!

September’s Folklore (136:3) features two of my reviews on books about the social supernatural & the persistence of paganism. Both richly worth the doing. Some splendid other stuff too! 😉 @uexeterpress.bsky.social @robincdouglas.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social

Today's post: new research from the @folkloresociety.bsky.social can't wait! #folkloresky

Lovely day with newer researchers at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social presenting on folk group identities with @drjuliabish.bsky.social on behalf of the @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social, zine making and exploring our folklore origin stories! Thanks Holly and the FLS @folkloresociety.bsky.social.

It was a beautiful day for welcoming the new cohort of MA Folklore Studies students to campus at the University of Hertfordshire AND for publishing a folklore book with @manchesterup.bsky.social - which you can buy now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180377/

Next week: Our next online talk is from Roy Vickery, on '50 Years of Plant-Lore Collecting'. Tuesday 23 September, 19:00-20:30 BST on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/50-years-o...

Our brand new @folkloresociety.bsky.social website was launched today! Going strong since 1878. Keep a look out for new content and become a member! folklore-society.com

📢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

Next week: The Folklore Society Presidential Address 2025, 'The Soldier's Tale', is on Tuesday 16th September at 17:30 BST. Online via Zoom, with limited in-person places for members also attending our AGM. This is a free event but donations are welcomed www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-soldie...

Tickets are still available for tonight's online talk: Professor Peter Harrop on 'Violet Alford’s Pyrenean Festivals and Antonin Artaud’s Peyote Dance: Travels in Search of Authentic Performance'. 7pm BST on Zoom. Hope to see you there!

Our friend Prof. Peter Harrop is giving an online talk for our mates at the @folkloresociety.bsky.social on Violet Alford’s Pyrenean Festivals and Antonin Artaud’s Peyote Dance. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violet-alf...

Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation: Revisiting Oral Narrative. The ninth ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ joint hybrid seminar, hosted by The Royal Anthropological Institute and The Folklore Society. Thurs 23 Oct 2025, 10:00 - 17:00 BST. folklore-society.com/event/folklo...

It's September and our programme of online talks is resuming next week! First up, 'Violet Alford’s Pyrenean Festivals and Antonin Artaud’s Peyote Dance' by Prof. Peter Harrop. Tuesday 9 September at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violet-alf...

📣A History of Folklore online course📣Following our sold out course in January, A History of Folklore, run by The Folklore Society in partnership with Oxford Continuing Education, is running again in September 2025, Jan 2026 & Apr 2026. Details and booking here: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/a-hi...

Looking forward to this next weekend- great line-up and interesting talks! I’ll be waffling on about, I mean speaking authoritatively about, Satanic Freemasonry, or lack of … @folkloresociety.bsky.social folklore-society.com/event/2693/

The move into our new premises is going really well. But can you help us open sooner? We need 6 very specific units to complete the first phase. They cost £25 each. Can you sponsor one on the link below? We will put your name on the unit as sponsor www.gofundme.com/f/secure-the... Thank you

'Lying in Legend and Tradition': This year's Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society will be held at Tullie House in Carlisle on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th September. Tickets £70. For the programme and booking see folklore-society.com/event/2693/

Manchester folk! I'm so, so excited to be in conversation with Tabitha Stanmore & Mel Giles about 'Folklore: A journey through the past & present' & 'Cunning Folk' at Blackwell's @rncmlive on 9th Oct. There'll be live music & a LOT of folklore. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-c...

looking forward to being part of the Newer Researchers in #Folklore event on 26 Sept alongside amazing experts at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social There's still places for this free day of Folklore Studies workshops @folkloresociety.bsky.social @herts.ac.uk www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

We need your help! The East Anglian Folklore Centre is having a fundraiser. We desperately want to keep our space open and have achieved so much this last year. But for it to continue we need your support. As little as 50p and a share would mean the world. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Advance copies of my new book have arrived, featuring artworks from Victoria Ford, Stephen Cook & Herbert James Draper; epigraphs from Statius, Robert Burns & DBH; and endorsements from Francis Young @addhart.bsky.social Simon Young & Jeremy Harte. What’s not to like!? @folkloresociety.bsky.social

This is sure to be a great day- the last one here in 2023 was excellent!

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...

Jeremy Harte will be here in Todmorden on Saturday! Anyone who has read his books or seen Jeremy speak will tell you that he is an absolute well of wondrous folklore knowledge and a delight to listen to! There are some tickets left- grab yours now! www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...