Lincolnshire Folklore: Ethel Rudkin and Mabel Peacock

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

• The Ethel Rudkin Collection, with all her publications, her library of folklore and history books, plus photographs, notes and ephemera: https://northlincolnshiremuseum.co.uk/discover/ethel-rudkin-1893-1984/
• The Peacock family archive, with diaries, photographs, correspondence, notes relating to folklorist Mabel Peacock, and to her father Edward Peacock's important 2 volumes on dialect and subsequent work on the 3rd volume by Eileen Elder https://northlincolnshiremuseum.co.uk/discover/the-peacock-family/
• Items on Mabel Peacock's Lincolnshire dialect stories: https://northlincolnshiremuseum.co.uk/discover/otchins-ghosts-and-a-tater-for-rheumatism-mabel-peacocks-dialect-tales/

Published 6th April 2023