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 Black Lady of Bradley Woods
The ghost of a crying woman in a black cloak and hood, the Black Lady, is said to roam these woodlands. Her harrowing tale is…
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Tom Otter
A horrifying true story that fed macabre imaginations and thus became also a legend. Tom Otter, Nottinghamshire native and navvy working in Lincoln, made local…
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The Bolingbroke Hare
In the seventeenth century, stories abounded that a hare at Bolingbroke Castle was a transformed witch who had once been imprisoned there. In many accounts,…
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The Vanished Bugler
It used to be received wisdom that a subterranean passage ran between Kirkstead Abbey and Tattershall Castle, nearly three miles to the south.
● 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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