2 people consulting a printed volume on a book cushion
📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team.
See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...
🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026
I have this edition! Acquired from a secondhand bookshop many years ago. It is a lovely cover, and a brilliant book
Lots of good tips here - even a few new to me!
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...
Really looking forward to Tuesday evening's Folklore Society online talk on English Dialect Literature! Tickets £6 from Eventbrite, link below 👇
Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research?
Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections.
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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. 🤝
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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
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The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore
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"A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans"
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Morris dancers at Rochester Sweeps Festival, May 2025, photo by Jeremy Harte
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 Anglo-Saxon Fuller Brooch, depicting the five senses
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...
