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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Dr Anna Milon Anna was the Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project throughout its AHRC-funded duration, from February 2024 until July 2025. She is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate on Project StoryMachine, so this is a ‘guest post’, but also not quite a guest post! The hamlet…
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The Excise Officer
During late-nineteenth-century renovations, a male skeleton was discovered bricked into a cavity, alongside buttons bearing the Royal Insignia (or, according to some reports, wearing a…
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In My Pocket
A dim-witted giant and his clever, goodly dwarf friend go wandering, the dwarf in his friend’s pocket, and come across a field of sheep. Being…
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The Lass that Saw her own Grave Dug
A lad called Fox courts a girl called Bessie, with sudden and apparently huge devotion, and arranges to meet her in the country by a…
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The Read’s Island Werewolf
The story of a man who set himself up as a ferryman on Read’s Island ‘about 400 years ago’, and allegedly killed and ate many…
● 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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