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 Lindsey Leopard
Sightings of the Lindsey Leopard have mainly been in the north, hence the name. Big cat sightings (or imagined sightings) are common in other places…
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‘Paranormal Paradise’: St Botolph’s Skidbrooke
This large redundant church near Skidbrooke has been declared a ‘paranormal paradise’ by an article in the Britain Express and is, apparently, a hot spot both for…
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Six-Pint (or Ten-Pint) Smith
This legend concerns one John Smith, who would apparently turn up at the pub every day at noon and drink twelve half-pints of beer that…
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Bardney Abbey: Oswald and the Shaft of Light
In 697, the substantial abbey at Beardeneu (Bardney) received the relics of King Oswald of Northumbria, who had been killed in battle against King Penda…
● 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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