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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This Ubiquitous Ghost
The ubiquitous ghost in question – which I find my work now haunted by – is known regionally as Black Shuck, Gytrash, Barguest, Moddey Dhoo,…
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The Leaning Tower of Dry Doddington
Our research hasn’t discovered many extant folk tales in this part of the county, as you might have noticed from the map. However, the pretty…
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The Genesis of the 1975 Tom Otter Drama
It was customary for PGCE students to present a play at the Lincolnshire Show at the end of the summer term, and it fell to…
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Fen.Folk Zine: Words from the Creator
The more I walked, the more I started noticing things: the way the mist clung to the fields at dusk, the strange hollows and ridges…
● 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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