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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Byard’s Leap
The hamlet of Byard’s Leap is named for a local story about a witch called Old Meg, who lives in a cave from where she…
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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,…
● 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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