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Dr Catherine Rider, Winner of The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2006 for her book Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages, published by Oxford University Press.

Photo by kind permission of Sylvia Kent.

Professor Ülo Valk (University of Tartu), after his Katharine Briggs Lecture, 7 November 2006, with Dr Marion Bowman, Vice-President of The Folklore Society.

Photo by kind permission of Sylvia Kent

Sir Laurence Gomme pioneer in folklore studies, honoured with English Heritage's 800th Blue Plaque, May 2006.

Charms, Charmers and Charming: Second International Charms Conference

Organised by Jonathan Roper and hosted by The Folklore Society at The Warburg Institute, London, 23-24 September 2005.

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Left - right
Paul Cowdell, Maria Shchapova, Jacqueline Simpson, Andrei Toporkov;
Andrei Toporkov speaking, Lea Olsan and Jonathan Roper listening;
Charms scholars in the restaurant (l-r):Lee Haring, Ritwa Herjulfsdotter, Maria Vivod, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart,Jonathan Roper, Maria Shchapova;
Charms scholars in the lecture room.

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