The Folklore Society blog : resources

Echoes of Padstow project website now live

Published 8th April 2025

The Echoes of Padstow project is inspired by the incredible audio-visual collection of Doc Rowe, who first visited Padstow in 1963. It has become Doc’s life-long work dedicated to recording, collecting and preserving traditions such as Padstow’s May Day.

Folklore Fellows Communications on Open Access

Published 26th April 2024

This is a quick note to inform you that we have launched our long-planned Open Access site for Folklore Fellows Communications volumes that are beyond the embargo period.

Lincolnshire Folklore: Ethel Rudkin and Mabel Peacock

Published 6th April 2023

North Lincolnshire Museum at Scunthorpe holds important collections of materials of interest to scholars of Lincolnshire folklore

Indexes to Folklore, 1878-1957 and 1958-1967

Published 27th October 2021

You can now download pdf files of scans of Wilfrid Bonser's 2 indexes to Folklore, Folk-Lore Record and Folk-Lore Journal from our Resources page

FLS Library New Accessions Jan 2020-Sept 2021

Published 5th October 2021

Download a spreadsheet of the new books we have added to our Folklore Society Library at University College London Library between January 2020 and September 2021.

Free Downloads of Owen Davies' Articles in Folklore from 23 Oct to 31 Dec 2020

Published 21st October 2020

As a welcome to our new Folklore Society President, Prof. Owen Davies, the following articles published by him in our journal Folklore will be available to download free from Friday 23 October until 31 December 2020

Folklore Society Library: new accessions 2019

Published 10th December 2019

A list of our library accessions for 2019 most of these books will be added to our collections at University College London library and will be available for loan to FLS members and UCL students as soon as they have been added to UCL's online library catalogue.

The Concealed Revealed

Published 26th October 2015

The Concealed Revealed, a strand of the Inner Lives: Emotion, Identity and the Supernatural, 1300-1900 Project, is hoping to produce an extensive catalogue of concealed objects and domestic apotropaic devices, from shoes and cats to timber marks, across Britain.

The Full English

Published 27th September 2013

EFDSS launched this amazing new digital archive of folk song and related material, including The Folklore Society's Ordish collection of folk play texts collected by Thomas Fairman Ordish.

H-Folk: H-Net Network on Folklore