Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project

Our Funders, Stakeholders & Partners

This project is funded and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Nottingham Trent University.

Additionally, we are partnering with these exciting organisations to deliver a range of events, workshops and publications that celebrate Lincolnshire folk tales and their tellers:

Heritage Lincolnshire

Heritage Lincolnshire is a local charity working to conserve the rich history of the County for the benefit of people who live and work in the area.

They work to advance their understanding and appreciation of archaeology, historic buildings, traditions and culture and work with a wide range of partners.

Heritage Lincoln is a stakeholder in the Lincolnshire Folk Tales project, co-organising and delivering a range of events and workshops.

Adverse Camber Productions

Adverse Camber is an independent production company and registered charity, powered by a dynamic team of freelance creative producers, artists and associates. Since their foundation in 2006, their aim is to create more access to and more ambitious artistic support for storytelling.

Their work includes national, international and locally relevant projects exploring the power of stories in a changing and challenging world.

Adverse Camber is a stakeholder in the Lincolnshire Folk Tales project, delivering a range of week-long workshops for children and young people.

Five Leaves Publications

Five Leaves is a publisher based in Nottingham, publishing 10-15 books a year. Their roots are radical and literary, and their main areas of interest are social history, politics, poetry, and cityscape. Five Leaves has its own bookshop in Nottingham city centre.

Lincolnshire Life

Lincolnshire Life is a monthly magazine devoted to the history, culture and contemporary life of Lincolnshire, England. The county’s longest established journal, Lincolnshire Life was founded in 1961 as a quarterly publication. After two years it was appearing every two months, and within four years of its launch it had begun to appear monthly.

University of Lincoln Library

The University of Lincoln Library offers a range of events for the staff and students of the University. Since its establishment in 1996, the university flourished into a diverse, internationally recognised university which welcomes thousands of students each year from around the world.

● 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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