Kupala Brighton
This is a guest blog post by Marek Kohn and Vladyslava Bondar from Kupala Brighton.
A New National Folklore
A guest blog from Lally MacBeth, writer of The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk (Faber, 2025).
Next stage: the survey moves on
After months of writing and revision, the National Folklore Survey for England is moving on to the next stage: implementation by Ipsos UK.
Our first symposium
On Monday 10 March 2025, the project team hosted our first symposium to generate feedback on the first draft of the survey.
Our Folktastic Isle: Celebrating folk traditions through community and carnival
A guest blog from Hannah Ray, Director of New Carnival, Isle of Wight.
The National Folklore Survey for England is go!
Launching the National Folklore Survey for England project at Sheffield Hallam University.
Welcoming our new Postdoctoral Researcher
Sophie Parkes-Nield is in post, ready to start work on the National Folklore Survey for England project.
Announcing the National Folklore Survey for England!
The National Folklore Survey funded by UKRI Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) addresses the lack of robust research evidence into the cultural value of folklore in post-Brexit, post-pandemic, multicultural England.