The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2024

Tuesday 12 Nov 2024 6:00pm-10:00pm

Cecil Sharp House, London

£6 | £4 With Discount Code | Free Personal Assistant ticket with purchase of Access ticket

The speaker this year is Dr Doc Rowe

'Transmission, Transformation and Trends: Historic and Contemporary Approaches to our Cultural Traditions’

An illustrated lecture with photos and film clips from six decades of documenting seasonal events, song and dance performances.

After the lecture, we will announce the winner of this year’s Katharine Briggs Award for recent books on folklore studies, and all the books entered for the award will be on display.

There will be a special presentation to Prof. Ronald Hutton; there will be music; there will be snacks and drinks, and we will raise a toast to Doc Rowe for his imminent 80th birthday.

The Folklore Society's annual Katharine Briggs Lecture is jointly hosted this year by the FLS in association and EFDSS.