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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The Centurion & the Witch
According to this tale, a Centurion was marching his men along the Roman Ermine Street, towards what we call Newport Arch, the north gate of…
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Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb is the famous hero of a comical fairytale, common in England since at least the early seventeenth century. It begins with a woman’s…
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Tattercoats
A rich, old lord, who lived in a palace by the sea, had no living wife or children, but he did have a granddaughter. However,…
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The Farmer and the Boggart
Tales abound in which the Devil, or a boggart, are duped in competitions involving the harvesting of crops. The farmer suggests one takes what grows…
● 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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