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The Folklore Society(FLS) is aregistered charityunder English law[1]based in London, England for thestudy of folklore.Its office is at 50 Fitzroy Street, London home of theRoyal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.[2]

It was founded in London in 1878 to study traditional vernacular culture, including traditional music, song, dance and drama, narrative, arts and crafts, customs and belief. The foundation was prompted by a suggestion made byEliza Gutchin the pages ofNotes and Queries.[3]

Members[edit]

William Thoms,the editor ofNotes and Querieswho had first introduced the termfolk-lore,[4]seems to have been instrumental in the formation of the society:[5]as wasG. L. Gomme,who was for many years a leading member.[6]

Some prominent members were identified as the "great team" inRichard Dorson's now long-outdated 1967 history ofBritish folkloristics,late-Victorian leaders of the surge of intellectual interest in the field, these wereAndrew Lang,Edwin Sidney Hartland,Alfred Nutt,William Alexander Clouston,Edward Clodd,and Gomme. Later historians have taken a deeper interest in the pre-modern views of members such asJoseph Jacobs.[7] A long-serving member and steady contributor to the society's discourse and publications wasCharlotte Sophia Burne,the first woman to become editor of its journal and later president (1909–10) of the society.[8]Ethel Rudkin,the Lincolnshire folklorist, was a notable member; her publications included several articles in the journal, as well as the bookLincolshire Folklore.[9]

Publications[edit]

The society publishes, in partnership withTaylor and Francis,the journalFolklorein four issues per year, and, since 1986, a newsletter,FLS News.[10]

The journal began asThe Folk-Lore Recordin 1878, continued or was restarted asThe Folk-Lore Journal,and from 1890 its issues were compiled as volumes with the long titleFolk-Lore: A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution, & Custom. Incorporating The Archæological Review and The Folk-Lore Journal.Joseph Jacobsedited the first four annual volumes as theQuarterly Review,succeeded byAlfred Nutt.As the head ofpublisher David Nuttin the Strand, Alfred Nutt was the publisher of the journal from 1890.

Charlotte Burneedited the journal between 1899 and 1908.[11]The editorship then passed toA. R. Wright(1909–14);William Crooke(1915–23);A. R. Wright(1924–31);E. O. James(1932–55);Christina Hole(1956–78);Jacqueline Simpson(1979–93);Gillian Bennett(1994–2004),Patricia Lysaght(2004-2012) and Jessica Hemming (2013–).[12]

Collections[edit]

The Folklore Society Library has around 15,000 books and more than 200 serial titles (40 currently received) and is held atUniversity College LondonLibrary. Its major strengths are in folk narrative andEnglish,Irish,Scottish,andWelsh folklore;there are also substantial holdings of eastEuropean folklorebooks, and long runs ofEstonianandBasque folkloreserials.[13]

The Folklore Society Archives and Collections include folklore-related papers ofG. L. GommeandLady Gomme,T. F. Ordish,William Crooke,Henry Underhill,Estella Canziani,Denis Galloway,Barbara Aitken,Margaret Murray,Katharine Briggsand others. The society's archives and collections are held atUniversity College London's Special Collections.[13]

Presidents[edit]

Katharine Briggs Award[edit]

The Katharine Briggs Award is an annual book prize awarded by the Society in honour ofKatharine Mary Briggs(who was the society's president from 1969 to 1972).[14]The prize has been awarded every year since it was first announced in 1982.[15]Notable winners include Israeli historian of social memoryGuy Beiner(2019), American scholar of fairy talesJack Zipes(2007), English mythographerMarina Warner(1999), British radical historianE. P. Thompson(1992), English married team of folkloristsIona and Peter Opie(1986) and Soviet folkloristVladimir Propp(1985).

Winners of the Award are:[16]

  • 1982: Samuel Pyeatt Menefee,Wives for Sale: an Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce(Basil Blackwell)
  • 1983: Michael Pickering,Village Song and Culture(Croom Helm)
  • 1984:Sandra Billington,A Social History of the Fool(Harvester Press)
  • 1985:Vladimir Propp,Theory and History of Folklore,edited by Anatoly Liberman (Manchester University Press)
  • 1986:Iona and Peter Opie,The Singing Game(Oxford University Press)
  • 1987: Amy Shuman,Storytelling Rights(Cambridge University Press)
  • 1988:Hilda Ellis Davidson,Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe(Manchester University Press)
  • 1989:J. P. Mallory,In Search of the Indo-Europeans Language, Archaeology and Myth(Thames & Hudson)
  • 1990:Paul Oliver,Blues Fell This Morning(Cambridge University Press)
  • 1991: Simon Charsley,Rites of Marrying: The Wedding Industry in Scotland(Manchester University Press)[17]
  • 1992:E. P. Thompson,Customs in Common(Merlin Press)
  • 1993: Georgina Boyes,The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology, and the English Folk Revival(Manchester University Press)[18]
  • 1994: Claudia Kinmonth,Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950(Yale University Press)
  • 1995: Timothy Mitchell,Flamenco Deep Song(Yale University Press)
  • 1996: Mary-Ann Constantine,Breton Ballads(CMCS Publications)[19]
  • 1997: Neil Jarman,Parading Culture: Parades and Visual Displays in Northern Ireland(Berg)
  • 1998: Joseph Falaky Nagy,Conversing with Angels and Ancients: The Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland(Four Courts)
  • 1999:Marina Warner,No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock(Chatto and Windus)[20]
  • 2000: Diarmuid Ó Giolláin,Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity(Cork University Press)
  • 2001: Adam Fox,Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700(Clarendon Press)[21]
  • 2002: Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey,Death, Memory and Material Culture(Berg)[22]
  • 2003: Malcolm Jones,The Secret Middle Ages(Sutton)[23]
  • 2004:Steve Roud,The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland(Penguin)
  • 2005: Jeremy Harte,Explore Fairy Traditions(Heart of Albion Press)
  • 2006: Catherine Rider,Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages(Oxford University Press)
  • 2007:Jack Zipes,Why Fairy Tales Stick(Routledge)
  • 2008: Richard Bebb,Welsh Furniture 1250-1950: a Cultural History of Craftsmanship and Design(Saer Books)
  • 2009: Kathryn Marsh,The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children’s Songs and Games(Oxford University Press)
  • 2010: Arthur Taylor,Played at the Pub: the Pub Games of Britain(English Heritage Publications)
  • 2011:Herbert Halpert,edited byJohn Widdowson,Folk Tales, Trickster Tales and Legends of the Supernatural from the Pinelands of New Jersey(Edwin Mellen Press)
  • 2012:David Hopkin,Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France(Cambridge University Press)
  • 2013: Karl Bell,The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures(Boydell Press)
  • 2014: David Atkinson,The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts(OpenBook Publishers)
  • 2015:Richard Jenkins,Black Magic and Bogeymen(Cork University Press)[24]
  • 2016:Lizanne Henderson,Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740(Palgrave)[25]
  • 2017: Christopher Josiffe,Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose(Strange Attractor)
  • 2018: Martin Graebe,As I Walked Out: Sabine Baring Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall(Signal Books)
  • 2019:Guy Beiner,Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster(Oxford University Press)[26]
  • 2020: William G. Pooley,Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914(Oxford University Press)
  • 2021: Jonathan Y. H. Hui (ed. and trans.),Vilmundar saga viðutan. The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider(Viking Society for Northern Research)
  • 2022:Marina Montesano(ed.)Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century(Routledge)
  • 2023: Una McIlvenna,Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900(Oxford University Press)

Coote Lake Medal[edit]

Coote Lake Medal awarded toEthel Rudkin(North Lincolnshire Museum)

The Coote Lake medal is awarded by the Committee of the Folklore Society for "outstanding research and scholarship" in the field of Folklore Studies.[27]

The award is named in honour of Harold Coote Lake (1878-1939), an active member of the Folklore Society in the 1920s and 1930s (who served as both Treasurer and Secretary of the Society at points in that period).

The recipients have been:

References[edit]

  1. ^"The Folklore Society, registered charity no. 1074552".Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  2. ^"Strategic Plan 2020–2025".Royal Anthropological Institute.Retrieved10 August2023.
  3. ^Jacqueline Simpson(Editor),Steve Roud(Editor) (2003).A Dictionary of English Folklore.Oxford University Press.
  4. ^Boyer, R. Troy (1997)."The Forsaken Founder, William Thoms: From Antiquities to Folklore".The Folklore Historian.14:55–61.
  5. ^Bennett, Gillian (1996)."The Thomsian Heritage in the Folklore Society (London)".Journal of Folklore Research.33(3): 212–220.ISSN0737-7037.
  6. ^Roper, Jonathan (2007)."Thoms and the Unachieved 'Folk-lore of England'".Folklore.118(2): 203–216.doi:10.1080/00155870701340035.ISSN0015-587X.S2CID161251619.
  7. ^"Joseph Jacobs:A Sociological Folklorist "Gary Alan FineFolkloreVol. 98, No. 2 (1987), pp. 183–193abstract
  8. ^"Charlotte Sophia Burne:Shropshire Folklorist, First Woman President of the Folklore Society, and First Woman Editor of Folklore. Part 1: A Life and Appreciation ", Gordon Ashman and Gillian Bennett,Folklore,Vol. 111, No. 1 (Apr., 2000), pp. 1–21
  9. ^Brown, Theo (1 January 1986)."Obituary: Ethel H. Rudkin, 1893–1985".Folklore.97(2): 222–223.doi:10.1080/0015587X.1986.9716384.ISSN0015-587X.
  10. ^"Newsletter: FLS News".The Folklore Society.Retrieved23 December2023.
  11. ^Simpson, Jacqueline; Roud, Steve (1 January 2003),"Folklore (the journal)",A Dictionary of English Folklore,Oxford University Press,doi:10.1093/acref/9780198607663.001.0001,ISBN978-0-19-860766-3,retrieved22 April2021
  12. ^Folklore Society (June 2013). "Coote-Lake Medal 2013".FLS News.70:1.
  13. ^abUCL Special Collections (23 August 2018)."Folklore Society Collection".UCL Special Collections.Retrieved12 December2023.
  14. ^"The Katharine Briggs Award".The Folklore Society.Retrieved28 March2021.
  15. ^Vickery, Roy; Hutchinson, Joyce; O'Kelly, Joss (1982)."Society Meetings and Folklore Notes".Folklore.93(2): 248–251.doi:10.1080/0015587x.1982.9716249.ISSN0015-587X.
  16. ^"Katharine Briggs Folklore Award Winners".www.goodreads.com.Retrieved28 March2021.
  17. ^Wood, Juliette (1992)."Katharine Briggs Lecture and Folklore Award, 1991".Folklore.103(1): 73–74.doi:10.1080/0015587x.1992.9715830.ISSN0015-587X.
  18. ^Snell, K. D. M. (1994)."Georgina Boyes, The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology and the English Folk Revival, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 1993. xiv + 285 pp. £35.00 hb. ISBN 0 7190 2914 7".Rural History.5(2): 228–229.doi:10.1017/S0956793300000728.ISSN1474-0656.S2CID163052893.
  19. ^"Katharine Briggs Award, 1996. Judges' Report".Folklore.108(1–2): 123. 1997.doi:10.1080/0015587x.1997.9715952.ISSN0015-587X.
  20. ^"Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 1999: Judges' Report".Folklore.111(2): 315–316. 2000.doi:10.1080/00155870020004666.ISSN0015-587X.S2CID216644528.
  21. ^"Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2001: Judges' Report".Folklore.113(2): 269–270. 2002.doi:10.1080/0015587022000015374.ISSN0015-587X.S2CID216643986.
  22. ^"Reviews of Folklore Scholarship".Folklore.114(2): 271–284. 2003.doi:10.1080/0015587032000104266.ISSN0015-587X.S2CID216644680.
  23. ^"Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2003: Judges' report".Folklore.115(3): 363–365. 2004.doi:10.1080/0015587042000284347.ISSN0015-587X.S2CID160531617.
  24. ^Larson, Shannon K. (7 January 2016)."'The Folklore Society Announces Winners of the 2015 Katherine Briggs Folklore Award', American Folklore Society News: Review ".American Folklore Society.
  25. ^Lizanne, Henderson(2017).Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740.Palgrave Macmillan.ISBN978-1-349-59313-2.OCLC1080426994.
  26. ^"The Katharine Briggs Award 2019".The Folklore Society.Retrieved28 March2021.
  27. ^"The Coote Lake Medal".The Folklore Society.Retrieved28 March2021.

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