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.
Our books:
Rory Waterman, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in England’s Forgotten County (Five Leaves, 2026), exploring folk tales across Lincolnshire, and the places associated with them.
Anna Milon and Rory Waterman (eds), Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined (Five Leaves, 2025), featuring fourteen of Lincolnshire’s finest writers reimagining local folk tales.
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Rory Waterman I’m not a ‘guest writer’, I’ll confess: I was the project lead on the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project during its funded period, and now keep the website going on my own. But please excuse the indulgence. My new book, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in…
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Gainsthorpe: abandoned, or sacked?
Lincolnshire is full of deserted medieval village sites, one of the best preserved of which is Gainsthorpe. As Jim Snee notes in this beautiful blog…
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Daniel Lambert
Daniel Lambert was born in Leicester in 1770, and surely remains the most famous obese man in English history. He suffered from an undiagnosed ailment…
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Harlaxton Manor Ghosts
In the mid-twentieth century Harlaxton Manor – built to rival Belvoir Castle – was in the care of Jesuits, who reported many supernatural events, resulting…
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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…
● 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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