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3 Nov 2025
Next week! I'm so looking forward to seeing the great Terry Gunnell speak, and to the whole evening! Tickets are still available if you're going to be in London next Tuesday evening and fancy it
31 Oct 2025
Not long now until the Katharine Briggs Lecture & Book Award, we're so looking forward to it! We're delighted that this year's lecturer is Professor Terry Gunnell, & after the lecture we'll announce the winner of this year's book award. Get your tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-katha…
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2 Jun 2025
Looking forward to tomorrow night's @FolkloreSociety online talk from Eric Hoenes del Pinal on the other-than-human beings of Guatemala's Verapaz. Tickets are still available, see the link below
2 Jun 2025
Tomorrow night! Eric Hoenes del Pinal will be speaking about the other-than-human beings who inhabit Guatemala’s Verapaz. 19:00 BST, tickets £6 (or £4 for FLS members) eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mount…
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6 Mar 2025
Here’s a free talk I gave recently for @NorfolkRO about some East Anglian records of 16th and 17th century witch trials youtu.be/SuvyLNYGwTU?si=wRF5…
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24 Feb 2025
Folklore & the Digital online conference: following our ‘Digital Folklore’ conference in June 2024, we're holding a one-day online conference on ‘Folklore and the Digital’ on Sat 29 March, 09:30-17:30 GMT. Tickets £30 (£20 for FLS members with Promo Code) folklore-society.com/event/f…
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24 Feb 2025
The @ahrcpress funded National Folklore Survey for England website is launched today! Check our exciting plans for the survey here, @sheffhallamuni @FolkloreSociety @Centre_4_Legend #NFS #folklore : nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk…
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Dr Claire Collins retweeted
25 Feb 2025
Call for Papers: Lying in Legend and Tradition: The Nineteenth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society will be held on Saturday 6th - Sunday 7th September 2025 at Tullie House, Carlisle. Submission deadline: 1st July 2025. folklore-society.com/event/l…
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Dr Claire Collins retweeted
25 Feb 2025
Call for Papers: ‘Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History’. The Ninth ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ joint seminar @RoyalAnthro & @FolkloreSociety. Thurs 23 Oct 2025. Proposal deadline 30 Jun 2025. folklore-society.com/blog-po…
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Dr Claire Collins retweeted
21 Feb 2025
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
FOR JRAI SPECIAL ISSUE 2027
Proposals for the JRAI Special Issue 2027 should be sent to the RAI by email on publications@therai.org.uk by 21 March 2025.
Full details including criteria and guidelines: therai.org.uk/publications/j…
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Dr Claire Collins retweeted
Shouting out this online symposia
Disability and Fairy Tales: Keeping the magic, confronting the stigma
24 & 25 Feb
w. Fortean friends Jeremy Harte & @PaulCowdell of @FolkloreSociety
disabledtales.co.uk/programm…
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Dr Claire Collins retweeted
7 Jan 2025
📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣
The @CREMSYork Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2025! Come and join us in York (24th - 25th June) to tackle the gnarly question - what is a witch?
Answers in abstract forms, please - due 14th of March 🧙♀️ #witchcraft #magic #witches
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Dr Claire Collins retweeted
3 Feb 2025
Hi folks! Hidden Charms 5 coming up on Saturday 12th April. It promises to provide many insights into the objects and marks people used to ward off evil. We would be tremendously grateful if you could share this flyer far and wide :-)
apotropaios.co.uk/2025-hidde…
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Dr Claire Collins retweeted
6 Dec 2024
Call for papers on the topic of 'Outsiders-Insiders' for the Postgraduate Research Forum hosted by @UniRdg_GCMS. The hybrid event will be held on 2nd April 2025 at the University of Reading. Submissions due by 31st January 2025. #MedievalTwitter #cfp
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6 Jan 2025
Really looking forward to tomorrow night's @FolkloreSociety online talk from Rosalind Kerven, on 'Women in Viking Age Folk Narratives'. Tickets are still available, £6 (or £4 for members). Note the later start time of 7pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-…
1 Jan 2025
#LegendaryWednesday @LegendaryWedne1
Start the new year with new understanding
of the Viking Age through its legendary women.
Goddesses and giantesses, valkyries and Norns, female heroes, explorers and entrepreneurs.
Tuesday 7 Jan. 19.00 UK time.
folklore-society.com/event/w…
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Dr Claire Collins retweeted
📢 Call for Blog Contributors in 2025!
Women’s History Scotland is seeking blog posts on women’s and gender history in Scotland. Share your research, projects, or thoughts on exhibitions, talks, books, or films!
For more details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kwbayum
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31 Dec 2024
Why not start the new year by writing a proposal for the Folklore Society's 2025 conference 'Folklore and the Senses'? Proposal deadline is 31 January. The conference will be online and in Cork, hosted by our collaborators @UCCFolklore, 20-22 June 2025. folklore-society.com/blog-po…
19 Nov 2024
📢CfP📢 'Folklore and the Senses'. The Folklore Society’s annual conference, in collaboration with @UCCFolklore. Fri 20 Jun - Sun 22 Jun 2025. Hybrid conference, online & at University College Cork. Proposal deadline 31 Jan folklore-society.com/blog-po…
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29 Dec 2024
Saw three brilliant, free exhibitions at @bodleianlibs today: 'Write Cut Rewrite', 'Oracles, Omens and Answers' and 'Magna Carta 1225'. 'Write Cut Rewrite' is only on until 5 Jan, but the others are on until the end of April. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/even…
ALT A photograph of a dragon volvelle, used to calculate eclipses, in the manuscript Arch. B b.7. Peter Apian, Astronomicum Caesareum, 1540. From the 'Oracles, Omens and Answers' exhibition.
ALT A photograph of one of the displays in the 'Write Cut Rewrite' exhibition, showing some of the works of Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley to illustrate how they 'helped each other in their literary undertakings'.
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29 Dec 2024
This display on Ngám - spider divination - which can be used to answer questions on the best treatment for an illness or the identity of thieves and also adjudicate witchcraft accusations, is a reminder that accusations of witchcraft are not exclusively a phenomenon of the past.
ALT Display from the 'Oracles, Omens an Answers' exhibition. The information board explains that 'the most popular form of divination in Cameroon in Central Africa involves tarantula-like spiders or land-crabs. The spiders, called ngámbi, live in holes in the ground. When consulting, ngám diviners place a stick and a stone near a spider's hole, which is covered with some marked leaf cards. As it emerges from its hole, the spider moves everything around and the resulting pattern is interpreted by the diviner.'
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29 Dec 2024
ALT A pile of three books on the arm of a sofa, in front of a Christmas Tree. 'Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials by Marion Gibson', 'Cunning Folk' by Tabitha Stanmore and 'Poet Mystic Widow Wife' by Hetta Howes
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27 Dec 2024
Began listening to a Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell audiobook on the long, misty drive home from Christmas in York. I tried and failed to read it a few years ago so thought I'd try listening instead. Wonderfully narrated by @RCArmitage, I recommend! Still have 29 hours to go...😅
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17 Dec 2024
Great to see Jacken Elswyth on this list. Jacken opened for Milkweed when they played @FolkloreSociety in February and it was a spellbinding performance google.com/amp/s/amp.theguar…
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