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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STEVE LOWE Steve Lowe’s debut psychological horror short story, set in the heart of Lincoln, is The Seam Remains, and is available now on his Amazon Author Page. In this blog post, he discusses his fascination with Lincoln and its history and mythology, and discusses his writing processes. If you’d…
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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…
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Happy 1 Year Anniversary, LFT!
Rory and Anna talk shop about the project, reflect on the year gone by and tease future events (featuring the ghost of a tragically deceased…
● 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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