This year’s Roy Palmer lecture was given by Dr Julia Bishop at Whitby during the annual Folk Week. Her topic was ‘What shall we do with folk song music’. It was a fascinating talk with a live demonstration of folk song collecting using an interesting new piece of software for the iPad and a terrific … Read more
Last November the Irish World Academy invited Steve Roud, Grace Toland and me to take part in a seminar about the use of archives in traditional song research. The video of that seminar has now been added to the TSF YouTube Channel and you can watch it HERE.
The 2021 Roy Palmer Lecture will be given by Jeremy Harte on 2 November as a live event at the Conway Hall in London, organised in association with the Folklore Society. The title of Jeremy’s talk, which was originally scheduled to be delivered in 2020, is ‘Brother Workmen: Solidarity in Trade Folklore’. Jeremy’s description of … Read more
Our Spring conference will be held at the Portico Library, Mosley Street, Manchester, on the 18th of April 2026. (https://www.theportico.org.uk/). A list of the presenters and their papers is given below. The programme in printable form is available at the foot of this page. Entrance is free, but pre-registration is essential. To book places at the … Read more