The Katharine Briggs Award 2026: Shortlist

We are very pleased to announce the Shortlist of The Katharine Briggs Award 2026

Tom Clark, Christopher D. Bader and Joseph O. Baker, Paranormal Britain: Belief in the Uncanny in England, Scotland and Wales (Bloomsbury Academic)  

Caitlin Blackwell Baines, How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession (Profile Books)

Davide Ermacora and Simon Young (eds.) The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore: The West Eurasian and Mediterranean Tradition (University of Exeter Press)

Matt King,  A History of Goblins (Palgrave Macmillan)

Rory Waterman, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in England’s Forgotten County (Five Leaves Publications)

The winner will be announced on Tuesday 10 November after this year’s Katharine Briggs Lecture, at The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, 18:30-20:30

The Katharine Briggs Lecture will be given by Dr Yinka Olusoga (University of Sheffield): 

‘Carving, Mining, Weaving and Forging of Identities, Connection and Belonging: A Personal exploration of children’s folklife and why it matters'.

Tickets £10 (£5.00 for Folklore Society members with the Promo Code) from Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-katharine-briggs-memorial-lecture-and-award-2026-tickets-1992420977779?

Published 4th October 2026