Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project
A project exploring the origins, legacies, connections and futures of folk tales in Lincolnshire, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2/2024-7/2025) and hosted at Nottingham Trent University.
Get the project anthology, Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined, published in March 2025 and featuring many of Lincolnshire’s finest writers reimagining local folk tales.
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What happens when folk tales and coffee come together? Rory Waterman finds out by talking to Seven Districts Coffee founder Ben Southall.
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A Missing Folk Tale?
This post’s comment section is specifically for you to discuss vanishing and missing folktales, or share the tales you know, but feel do not get…
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The Stamford Bull-run
The Stamford bull-run was a town tradition from late medieval times until 1839, when this cruel practice was eventually banned. According to legend, the tradition…
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Looking for Lincolnshire Authors
Looking for prose and poetry authors with a Lincolnshire connection to contribute to an anthology. Each successful contribution will receive an honorarium upon acceptance.
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The Grimsby Imp
A less famous counterpart to the Lincoln Imp, who according to legend caused mayhem in Lincoln Cathedral and was subsequently turned to stone. The Grimsby…
● About the project
‘Lincolnshire Folk Tales: Origins, Legacies, Connections, Futures’ is a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/Y003225/1), and is led by Dr Rory Waterman and the Research Fellow Dr Anna Milon in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. The project explores the origins, legacies, intertextual and social connections and futures of Lincolnshire folk tales (LFTs), and is intended to facilitate wider engagement with this heritage from writers, the general public, and scholars.
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