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Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees, Boggarts & Other Folklore Creatures
Published 28th July 2025
We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees, Boggarts & Other Folklore Creatures, illustrated by Fee Greening. This new edition of Katharine Briggs’ Dictionary of Fairies will be published by Octopus on 11 September 2025.
The Wishing Tree of Loch Maree
Published 30th July 2024
Our editor of FLS News, Dr Ceri Houlbrook, has written a very nice piece about the Wishing-tree of Loch Maree for The Wellcome Collection website
...featuring Doc Rowe, and the Merry Month of May
Published 26th April 2024
The March 2024 issue of Country Living magazine has a feature on Doc Rowe's recording and archiving of seasonal events
RAI Research Seminar on Alfred Cort Haddon
Published 18th October 2023
Ciarán Walsh will be launching his book Alfred Cort Haddon: a Very English Savage at The Royal Anthropological Institute’s Research Seminar on Tuesday 31 October 2023, 16:00-18:00, at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT.
100 Years of Morris Dancing on May Morning in Oxford
Published 6th April 2023
Oxford University Morris and Oxford City Morris have produced a new booklet to mark this year's centenary of the annual Morris dancing on May morning in Oxford.
All FLS News back issues now available in the Members' area
Published 14th July 2021
All issues of our newsletter FLS News, from No.1, 1985 to the most recent issue, are now available as pdfs in the Members area of our website, as well as earlier newsletters 1980-83, and Derek Froome's index of FLS News Nos.1-50, 1985-2006.
Extract from FLS News no.92, Nov 2020
Published 5th January 2021
Here's an item from our newsletter FLS News no. 92, November 2020, by Andrew Bennett
Anatoly Liberman responds to John Hines's Review
Published 16th November 2020
After the publication of John Hines's review of Anatoly Liberman's book In Prayer and Laughter: Essays on Medieval Scandinavian and Germanic Mythology, Literature, and Culture (Paleograph Press, 2016), in Folklore 131, no. 3 (September 2020), Prof. Liberman sent us the following response, and Prof. Hines sent the reply that follows the response below.
Virtual Special Issue: Dragons
Published 15th September 2020
Our latest Folklore Virtual Special Issue is on Dragons With an introduction by Dr Juliette Wood and a selection of articles from Folklore on this theme.
FLS News, the newsletter of the Folklore Society: Call for Contributions
Published 9th July 2018
Dr Jacqueline Simpson, editor FLS News would like to encourage more people to contribute short pieces for publication in our newsletter, which is sent to members of The Folklore Society three times a year.
'New Beginnings in Folklore', by J.D.A. Widdowson
Published 15th March 2017
Prof. John Widdowson's article "New Beginnings in Folklore: Towards a National Folklore Survey", published in our journal Folklore (vol.127/3, 2016)
December issue of Folklore now out
Published 22nd November 2015
Folklore Volume 126, no. 3 (December 2015): now out.
Folklore vol.126, no.2, 2015
Published 3rd August 2015
Folklore vol.126/2, 2015, now out.
New Book: Alliteration In Culture
Published 27th September 2013
Papers from The Folklore Society's Alliteration conference of 2007: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=361599
Folklore and Legends of Lincolnshire
Published 27th September 2013
By Mabel Peacock and Wilhelmine Fowler, Edited by Gillian Bennett [2010], available on CD, price £5.00 UK pounds.
Thomas Fairman Ordish
Published 27th September 2013
Thanks to the efforts of Andrew Bennett and his team of eager volunteers, The Folklore Society's collection of Ordish papers has now been transcribed. Although it is still very much work in progress, we now have available a DVD of boxes 1-5, price £10.00 UK pounds.
Book Notice: The Folklore of Discworld
Published 27th September 2013
Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson are joint authors of The Folklore of Discworld, which was published by Doubleday in September 2008.