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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Grantham Railway Disaster
In 1906, the night-mail to Edinburgh steamed at full speed through Grantham station, where it had been expected to stop, and derailed at a bend…
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The Witches of Belvoir
Lincolnshire’s most famous example of a witch trial, and one of the most widely discussed and embellished in the early seventeenth century. The ‘witches’ were…
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Nanny Rutt
This tale is associated with Nanny Rutt’s Well, an artesian spring (not marked on OS maps) in Math Wood, near Bourne, in which a girl…
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The Parasitic Serpent
The tale of a woman from the parish of Wildmore (the biggest settlement within which is New York), who had a snake inside her, and…
● 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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