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Forgotten Photos from a Forgotten County
Rory Waterman I’m not a ‘guest writer’, I’ll confess: I was the project lead on the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project during its funded period, and now keep the website going on my own. But please excuse the indulgence. My new book, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in England’s Forgotten County, is published…
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THE BURIED MOON OF THE CARRS
by Alister Walker King Introduction This piece reimagines the traditional Lincolnshire tale ‘The Buried Moon’, relocating it firmly within the Carrs and wetland landscapes of the Ancholme Valley. Rather than retelling the story as a fixed folklore fragment, it approaches it as a living myth—one shaped by the land itself, where water, mist, and peat…
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Mapping Folklore: From Lincolnshire Byways to Spatial Hypertext
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 of Byard’s Leap, just off…
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Fabulous Coffee
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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Harry the Liar
When I moved to North Thoresby in 1997, I became a “regular” at the New Inn which stands at the eastern edge of the village, near the old Station. There were a number of regular village characters among the patrons, including the remarkable, notorious Harry Parker who lived in one of the railway cottages nearby.
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The Village Behind the Folklore
A young girl running into a kitchen with an armful of ‘may’ blossom so terrifies her grandmother that the old woman would hurl her back across the threshold, if she were not so lame. Is this in the 1860s? No. It is 1961. We are in the Lincolnshire village where
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