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'''The Folklore Society''' ('''FLS''') is a national association in the United Kingdom for the study of [[folklore]].
 
'''The Folklore Society''' ('''FLS''') is a [[Charitable organization|registered charity]] under English law<ref>{{EW charity|1074552|The Folklore Society}}</ref> based in London, England for the [[Folklore studies|study of folklore]]. Its office is at 50 Fitzroy Street, London home of the [[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Strategic Plan 2020–2025 |website=Royal Anthropological Institute |url= https://www.therai.org.uk/about-the-rai/strategic-plan |access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref>
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 by [[Eliza Gutch]] in the pages of ''[[Notes and Queries]]''.<ref name=DEF>[[Jacqueline Simpson]] (Editor), [[Steve Roud]] (Editor) (2003). ''A Dictionary of English Folklore''. [[Oxford University Press]].</ref>▼
 
▲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 by [[Eliza Gutch]] in the pages of ''[[Notes and Queries]]''.<ref name="DEF">[[Jacqueline Simpson]] (Editor), [[Steve Roud]] (Editor) (2003). ''A Dictionary of English Folklore''. [[Oxford University Press]].</ref>
The Society is a [[Charitable organization|registered charity]] under English law.<ref>{{EW charity|1074552|THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY}}</ref>
 
The Folklore Society office is at [[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]], 50 [[Fitzroy Street, London]].
 
==Members==
[[William Thoms]], the editor of ''[[Notes and Queries]]'' who had first introduced the term ''folk-lore'',<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Boyer |first=R. Troy |date=1997 |title=The Forsaken Founder, William Thoms: From Antiquities to Folklore |url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000046787861&seq=59 |journal=The Folklore Historian |volume=14 |pages=55–61}}</ref> seems to have been instrumental in the formation of the society:<ref>{{Cite and,journal along|last=Bennett with|first=Gillian |date=1996 |title=The Thomsian Heritage in the Folklore Society (London) |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/3814676 |journal=Journal of Folklore Research |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=212–220 |issn=0737-7037}}</ref> as was [[George Laurence Gomme|G. L. Gomme]], who was for many years a leading member.<ref name="Roper2007">{{cite journal |last=Roper |first=Jonathan |yeardate=2007 |title=Thoms and the Unachieved "'Folk-Lorelore of England"' |journal=Folklore |volume=118 |issue=2 |pages=203–216 |issn=0015-587X |doi=10.1080/00155870701340035 |s2cid=161251619 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
 
Some prominent members were identified as the "great team" in [[Richard Dorson]]'s now long -outdated 1967 history of [[English folklore|British folklorefolkloristics]], late-Victorian leaders of the surge of intellectual interest in the field, these were [[Andrew 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 as [[Joseph Jacobs]].<ref>"[[Joseph Jacobs]]: A Sociological Folklorist" [[Gary Alan Fine]] ''Folklore'' Vol. 98, No. 2 (1987), pp. 183–193 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1259979 abstract]</ref>
A long-serving member and steady contributor to the society's discourse and publications was [[Charlotte Sophia Burne]], the first woman to become editor of its journal and later president (1909–10) of the society.<ref name="Ashman2000">"[[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</ref> [[Ethel Rudkin]], the Lincolnshire folklorist, was a notable member; her publications included several articles in the journal, as well as the book ''Lincolshire Folklore.''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Theo |date=1986-01-01 |title=Obituary: Ethel H. Rudkin, 1893–1985 |url= https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.1986.9716384 |journal=Folklore |volume=97 |issue=2 |pages=222–223 |doi=10.1080/0015587X.1986.9716384 |issn=0015-587X}}</ref>
Gordon Ashman and Gillian Bennett,
''Folklore'',
Vol. 111, No. 1 (Apr., 2000), pp. 1–21</ref> [[Ethel Rudkin]], the Lincolnshire folklorist, was a notable member; her publications included several articles in the journal, as well as the book ''Lincolshire Folklore.''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brown|first=Theo|date=1986-01-01|title=Obituary: Ethel H. Rudkin, 1893–1985|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.1986.9716384|journal=Folklore|volume=97|issue=2|pages=222–223|doi=10.1080/0015587X.1986.9716384|issn=0015-587X}}</ref>
 
==Publications==
The society publishes, in partnership with [[Taylor and Francis]], the journal ''[https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfol20/current Folklore]'' in four issues per year, and, since 1986, a newsletter, ''FLS News''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Newsletter: FLS News |url= https://folklore-society.com/publications/news/ |access-date=2023-12-23 |website=The Folklore Society}}</ref>
 
The journal began as ''The Folk-Lore Record'' in 1878, continued or was restarted as ''The Folk-Lore Journal'', and from 1890 its issues were compiled as volumes entitledwith "the long title ''Folk-Lore: A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution, & Custom. Incorporating ''The Archæological Review'' and ''The Folk-Lore Journal''". [[Joseph Jacobs]] edited the first four annual volumes as the ''Quarterly Review'', succeeded by [[Alfred Nutt]]. As the head of [[David Nutt (publisher)|publisher David Nutt]] in the Strand, Alfred Nutt was the publisher of the journal from 1890.<ref>
[[HathiTrust]] Digital Library provides full views, apparently complete, for 1878 to 1922, the timespan in the [[public domain]].▼
: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000541174] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100321555] (two records). ''The Folk-Lore Record'', vols 1–5, 1878 to 1882. ▼
: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000546141] [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100334945] (two records). ''The Folk-Lore Journal'', vols 1–7, 1883 to 1889. ▼
: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000067760] ''Folk-Lore'', vols 1–33, 1890 to 1922 (subtitle "A Quarterly Review ...", from the title page of Volume 1 as bound).▼
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[[Charlotte Burne]] edited the journal between 1899 and 1908.<ref>{{Citation |lastlast1=Simpson |firstfirst1=Jacqueline |title=Folklore (the journal) |date=2003-01-01 |url= https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198607663.001.0001/acref-9780198607663-e-374 |work=A Dictionary of English Folklore |publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780198607663.001.0001/acref-9780198607663-e-374 |isbn=978-0-19-860766-3 |access-date=2021-04-22 |last2=Roud |first2=Steve}}</ref> The editorship then passed to [[A. R. Wright (folklorist)|A. R. Wright]] (1909–14); [[William Crooke]] (1915–23); [[A. R. Wright (folklorist)|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–).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Folklore Society |date=June 2013 |title=Coote-)Lake Medal 2013 |journal=FLS News |volume=70 |pages=1}}</ref>
 
== Collections ==
The [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/a-z/folklore Folklore Society Library] has around 15,000 books and more than 200 serial titles (40 currently received) and is held at [[University College London]] Library. Its major strengths are in folk narrative and British[[English andfolklore|English]], [[Irish folklore|Irish]], [[Scottish folklore|Scottish]], and [[Welsh folklore]]; there are also substantial holdings of east [[European folklore]] books, and long runs of [[Estonian folklore|Estonian]] and [[Basque folklore]] serials.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=UCL Special Collections |date=2018-08-23 |title=Folklore Society Collection |url= https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/a-z/folklore |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=UCL Special Collections}}</ref>
 
The [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/a-z/folklore Folklore Society Archives and Collections] include folklore-related papers of [[Laurence Gomme|G. L. Gomme]] and [[Lady Gomme]], [[T. F. Ordish]], [[William Crooke]], [[Henry Underhill]], [[Estella Canziani]], [[Denis Galloway]], [[Barbara Freire-Marreco|Barbara Aitken]], [[Margaret Murray]], [[Katharine Mary Briggs|Katharine Briggs]] and others. The society's archives and collections are held at [[University College London's Special Collections]].<ref name=":0" />
 
==Presidents==
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* 1920–22 [[W H R Rivers]]
* 1922–24 [[Henry Balfour]]
* 1924–26 [[John Myres|J L MyersMyres]]
* 1926–28 [[A. R. Wright (folklorist)|A R Wright]]
* 1928–30 [[Richard MacGillivray Dawkins|R M Dawkins]]
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* 1970–73 [[Stewart Sanderson]]
* 1973–76 [[Hilda Ellis Davidson]]
* 1976–79 [[Joshua Roy Porter (priest)|J R Porter]]
* 1979–82 [[W. M. S. Russell|W M S Russell]]
* 1982–84 [[Carmen Blacker]]
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* 2014–17 [[James H. Grayson]]
* 2017–20 [[Patricia Lysaght]]
* 2020–current2020–23 [[Owen Davies (historian)|Owen Davies]]
* 2023-current [[David Hopkin (historian)|David Hopkin]]
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== Katharine Briggs Award ==
The Katharine Briggs Award is an annual book prize awarded by the Society in honour of [[Katharine Mary Briggs]] (who was the society's president from 1969 to 1972).<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Katharine Briggs Award |url= https://folklore-society.com/awards/the-katharine-briggs-folklore-award/ |access-date=2021-03-28 |website=The Folklore Society|language=en-GB}}</ref> The judges report is published in the Society's journal ''Folklore''. Even though the rules stipulate that it can be withheld if the judges find in any given year that no book has reached the required standard, the prize has been awarded every year since it was first announced in 1982.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Vickery |first1=Roy |last2=Hutchinson |first2=Joyce |last3=O'Kelly |first3=Joss |date=1982 |title=Society Meetings and Folklore Notes |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.1982.9716249 |journal=Folklore |volume=93 |issue=2 |pages=248–251 |doi=10.1080/0015587x.1982.9716249 |issn=0015-587X}}</ref> Notable winners include Israeli historian of social memory [[Guy Beiner]] (2019), American scholar of fairy tales [[Jack Zipes]] (2007), English mythographer [[Marina Warner]] (1999), British radical historian [[E. P. Thompson]] (1992), English married team of folklorists [[Iona and Peter Opie]] (1986) and Soviet folklorist [[Vladimir Propp]] (1985).
 
Winners of the Award are:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Katharine Briggs Folklore Award Winners |url= https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/3048-katharine-briggs-folklore-award |access-date=2021-03-28 |website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref>
 
* 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)
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* 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)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wood |first=Juliette |date=1992 |title=Katharine Briggs Lecture and Folklore Award, 1991 |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.1992.9715830 |journal=Folklore |volume=103 |issue=1 |pages=73–74 |doi=10.1080/0015587x.1992.9715830 |issn=0015-587X}}</ref>
* 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)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Snell |first=K. D. M. |date=1994 |title=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. |url= https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/rural-history/article/abs/georgina-boyes-the-imagined-village-culture-ideology-and-the-english-folk-revival-manchester-and-new-york-manchester-university-press-1993-xiv-285-pp-3500-hb-isbn-0-7190-2914-7/2EF9CA8BB38446B6C27DB2F5E12FFEB0 |journal=Rural History|language=en |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=228–229 |doi=10.1017/S0956793300000728 |s2cid=163052893 |issn=1474-0656}}</ref>
* 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)<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1997 |title=Katharine Briggs Award, 1996. Judges' Report |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.1997.9715952 |journal=Folklore |volume=108 |issue=1–2 |pages=123 |doi=10.1080/0015587x.1997.9715952 |issn=0015-587X}}</ref>
* 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)<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2000 |title=Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 1999: Judges' Report |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00155870020004666 |journal=Folklore |volume=111 |issue=2 |pages=315–316 |doi=10.1080/00155870020004666 |s2cid=216644528 |issn=0015-587X}}</ref>
* 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)<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2002 |title=Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2001: Judges' Report |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587022000015374 |journal=Folklore |volume=113 |issue=2 |pages=269–270 |doi=10.1080/0015587022000015374 |s2cid=216643986 |issn=0015-587X}}</ref>
* 2002: Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey, ''Death, Memory and Material Culture'' (Berg)<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2003 |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587032000104266 |journal=Folklore |volume=114 |issue=2 |pages=271–284 |doi=10.1080/0015587032000104266 |issn=0015-587X |title=Reviews of Folklore Scholarship |s2cid=216644680}}</ref>
* 2003: Malcolm Jones, ''The Secret Middle Ages'' (Sutton)<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2004 |title=Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2003: Judges' report |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587042000284347 |journal=Folklore |volume=115 |issue=3 |pages=363–365 |doi=10.1080/0015587042000284347 |s2cid=160531617 |issn=0015-587X}}</ref>
* 2004: [[Steve Roud]], ''The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland'' (Penguin)
* 2005: Jeremy Harte, ''Explore Fairy Traditions'' (Heart of Albion Press)
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* 2010: Arthur Taylor, ''Played at the Pub: the Pub Games of Britain'' (English Heritage Publications)
* 2011: [[Herbert Halpert]], edited by [[J. D. A. Widdowson|John Widdowson]], ''Folk Tales, Trickster Tales and Legends of the Supernatural from the Pinelands of New Jersey'' (Edwin Mellen Press)
* 2012: [[David Hopkin (historian)|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 (sociologist)|Richard Jenkins]], ''Black Magic and Bogeymen'' (Cork University Press)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larson |first=Shannon K. |date=7 January 2016 |title='The Folklore Society Announces Winners of the 2015 Katherine Briggs Folklore Award', American Folklore Society News: Review |url= https://www.afsnet.org/news/268380/The-Folklore-Society-Announces-Winners-of-the-2015-Katherine-Briggs-Folklore-Award.htm|url-status=live |website=American Folklore Society}}</ref>
* 2016: [[Lizanne Henderson]], ''Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740'' (Palgrave)<ref>{{Cite book |last=LIZANNE.Lizanne |first=HENDERSONHenderson |author-link=Lizanne Henderson |url= http://worldcat.org/oclc/1080426994 |title=WITCHCRAFTWitchcraft ANDand FOLKFolk BELIEFBelief INin THEthe AGEAge OF ENLIGHTENMENTof Enlightenment: scotlandScotland, 1670-1740. |date=2017 |publisher=PALGRAVE[[Palgrave Macmillan]] MACMILLAN|isbn=978-1-349-59313-2 |oclc=1080426994}}</ref>
* 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)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Katharine Briggs Award 2019 |url= https://folklore-society.com/blog-post/the-katharine-briggs-award-2019/ |access-date=2021-03-28 |website=The Folklore Society|language=en-GB}}</ref>
* 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: [[:it:Marina Montesano|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)
*2024: Tabitha Stanmore, ''Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic'' (The Bodley Head).
 
== Coote Lake Medal ==
[[File:Coote_Lake_Medal_awarded_to_Ethel_Rudkin.jpg|thumb|Coote Lake Medal awarded to [[Ethel 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Coote Lake Medal |url= https://folklore-society.com/awards/the-coote-lake-medal/ |access-date=2021-03-28 |website=The Folklore Society|language=en-GB}}</ref>
 
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).
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*[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=folklorej Free online issues of the Folklore journal and predecessors, 1868-1922]
*[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/a-z/folklore Folklore Society Collections] at [[University College London]]
▲*[[HathiTrust]] Digital Library provides full views, apparently complete, for 1878 to 1922, the timespanspan of issues that are in the [[public domain]].:
▲: **[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000541174] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100321555] (two records). ''The Folk-Lore Record'', vols 1–5, 1878 to 1882.
▲: **[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000546141] [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100334945] (two records). ''The Folk-Lore Journal'', vols 1–7, 1883 to 1889.
▲: **[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000067760] ''Folk-Lore'', vols 1–33, 1890 to 1922 (subtitlesubtitled "''A Quarterly Review ..."'', from the title page of Volume 1 as bound).
 
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