Coming Soon! Writing Folklore is a new Folklore writing group supporting academic and creative writing related to Folklore and Folklore Studies and Research. Led by our wonderful members Abbi Flint an...

The festival invites reflection on what happens when languages and homelands are lost.

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

Lore and Lunch is an online monthly reading and discussion group led by members of the Contemporary Folklore Research Centre. Everyone is welcome: You don't have to be a centre member, no formal quali...

A two-day conference bringing together researchers working on ‘traditional’ and ‘popular’ tunes as transmitted and transformed in all manner of musical styles and genres, performance contexts, levels ...

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

TINY/giant: Playing with Scale Guest Editors: Dawn Tracey Brandes & Martha Radice, Dalhousie University Deadline for abstracts and short bios: November 15, 2025In addition to our guest-edited section ...

11th Folklore Fellows' Summer School: Interdisciplinarity and Involvement – Enduring and Emerging Sites of the Vernacular. Helsinki and Tvärminne, Finland, 17th–21st August 2026.

A ground-breaking guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore past and present. Folklore is explored in its remarkable variations from village rituals and fairy tales to UFO legends and internet fanfiction, travelling through a landscape of witches, wizards and wicker men. Leading experts Ceri Houlbrook and Owen Davies reveal how folklore is more than the remains of a fossilised distant, rural past but a dynamic living tradition that draws on many sources, including migrant communities, and is forever being renewed and updated.

While dictionaries may not be the first place we look for ethnographic insight, they often contain rich, indirect records of cultural knowledge. This symposium, held at the University of Bergen on 23–...

Wider Publications

Free online workshop on 16th July, 12.00 - 1.30pm with storytelling experts from Nottingham Trent University and The University of Sheffield

Simon Gall looks at traditional helper figures, both old and new, in family life

Free online workshop on 16th July, 12.00 - 1.30pm with storytelling experts from Nottingham Trent University and The University of Sheffield

Berry Pillot de Chenecey joins us for an online seminar on the persistence and peculiarities of children's play in WW2 London and Liverpool.

Hafdís Huld's lullabies captivated Iceland and made music history

Many seasonal customs and festival traditions, such as Christmas and Easter in the UK, seem to be centered on children. In this talk, Dr Yinka Olusoga and Dr...

Access Folk is researching ways to increase and diversify participation in folk singing in England. We want to hear from you about your interests and how you like to receive information!

Steve Roud is widely recognised as one of our foremost authorities on folk song.

Nominations will open this summer for traditions like Notting Hill Carnival, Hogmanay and artisanal crafts to be officially recognised