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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Brigg Fair
This is a famous folk song, first collected in 1908 by Australian folk song collector and composer Percy Grainger. Grainger recorded Lincolnshire folk singer Joseph…
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Fred the Fool
A wayward lad called Fred Baddeley, who is thin yet greedy, gets a job at a farm on the other side of the Wolds: the…
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Sir Hugh Bardolph & the Dragon
The legend of Sir Hugh Bardolph, set in the twelfth century, recounts the slaying of a man-eating dragon with one-eye (perhaps unique in British folklore)…
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The Serpent Slain at Walmsgate
A tradition, which probably took its rise at an early period, tells of a huge serpent that devastated the village of South Ormsby and was…
● 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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