The Katharine Briggs Award 2013

We are delighted to announce that The Katharine Briggs Award 2013 was won by Karl Bell for his book The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures, published by The Boydell Press. Congratulations Karl.

The joint runners up were:

• Julia Bishop and Steve Roud, The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Penguin)
• Catherine Rider, Magic and Religion in Medieval England (Reaktion)

Published 9th December 2013