Katharine Briggs Folklore Award

Given by Folklore Society

Other Names: Katharine Briggs Award, Katharine Briggs Book Award
64 Works 3,320 Books 26 Reviews ½ 3.9
Annual prize from the Folklore Society, awarded for a book in English on folklore published between 1 June the previous year and 31 May the year of the award.
Stages:
Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2022 (7), 2021 (7), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (3), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (9), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1)

Winner 42

WorkYear
Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 (New Cultural History of Music) by Una McIlvenna2023
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century (Routledge Studies in the History of Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic) by Marina Montesano2022
The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider (Vilmundar saga vidutan. The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider) by Jonathan Y H Hui2021
Body and tradition in nineteenth-century France : Félix Arnaudin and the moorlands of gascony, 1870 - 1914 by William Pooley2020
Forgetful remembrance : social forgetting and vernacular historiography of a rebellion in ulster by Guy Beiner2019
As I Walked Out: Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall by Martin Graebe2018
Gef!: The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose by Christopher Josiffe2017
Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740 (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic) by Lizanne Henderson2016
Black Magic and Bogeymen: Fear, Rumour and Popular Belief in the North of Ireland 1972-74 by Richard Jenkins2015
The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and Its Imaginary Contexts by David Atkinson2014
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack by Karl Bell2013
Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France by David Hopkin2012
Folk Tales, Tall Tales, Trickster Tales and Legends of the Supernatural from the Pinelands of New Jersey by Herbert Halpert2011
Played at the Pub: The Pub Games of Britain (Played in Britain) by Arthur Taylor2010
The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children's Songs and Games by Kathryn Marsh2009
Welsh furniture, 1250-1950 : a cultural history of craftsmanship and design by Richard J. Bebb2008
Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre by Jack Zipes2007
Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages by Catherine Rider2006
Explore Fairy Traditions by Jeremy Harte2005
The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland by Steve Roud2004
The Secret Middle Ages: Discovering the Real Medieval World by Malcolm Jones2003
Death, Memory and Material Culture (Materializing Culture) by Elizabeth Hallam2002
Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 by Adam Fox2001
Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin2000
No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock by Marina Warner1999
Conversing With Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland by Joseph Falaky Nagy1998
Material Conflicts: Parades and Visual Displays in Northern Ireland (Explorations in Anthropology) by Neil Jarman1997
Breton Ballads by Leonard Feather1996
Flamenco deep song by Timothy Mitchell1995
Irish Country Furniture, 1700-1950 by Claudia Kinmonth1994
The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology & the English Folk Revival by Georgina Boyes1993
Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture by E. P. Thompson1992
Rites of Marrying: The Wedding Industry in Scotland (Anthropological studies of Britain) by S. R. Charsley1991
Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues by Paul Oliver1990
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth by J. P. Mallory1989
Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson1988
Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents by Amy Shuman1987
The Singing Game by Iona Opie1986
Theory and History of Folklore by Vladimir Propp1985
A Social History of the Fool by Sandra Billington1984
Village song & culture : a study based on the Blunt collection of song from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire by Michael Pickering1983
Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce by Samuel Pyeatt Menefee1982

First Runner-Up 1

Second Runner-Up 1

Runner-Up 7

Honourable Mention 8

Shortlist 23

WorkYear
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century (Routledge Studies in the History of Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic) by Marina Montesano2022
The forgotten songs of the upper Thames : folk songs from the Alfred Williams collection by Martin Graebe2022
The Routledge companion to English folk performance by Peter Harrop2022
The boggart : folklore, history, place-names and dialect by Simon Young2022
Auld lang syne : a song and its culture by M. J. Grant2022
The dragon in the West : from ancient myth to modern legend by Daniel Ogden2022
Pagans in the early modern Baltic : sixteenth-century ethnographic accounts of Baltic paganism by Francis Young2022
The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider (Vilmundar saga vidutan. The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider) by Jonathan Y H Hui2021
The supernatural in early modern Scotland: . by Julian Goodare2021
Story listening and experience in early childhood by Donna Schatt2021
Storyworlds of Robin Hood: The Origins of a Medieval Outlaw by Lesley Coote2021
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals History, Memory, and Transnationalism by Raphael Chijioke Njoku2021
Merpeople: A Human History by Vaughn Scribner2021
A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe by Marek Tuszewicki2021
Death, Memory and Material Culture (Materializing Culture) by Elizabeth Hallam2002
Step Change: New Views in Traditional Dance by Georgina Boyes2002
Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination by Ronald Hutton2002
Russian Myths (Legendary Past Series) by Elizabeth Warner2002
Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature by Nicola Bown2002
Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online by Brenda Danet2002
The Shaman's Coat : A Native History of Siberia by Anna Reid2002
Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory (Materializing Culture) by David E. Sutton2002
Irish Storyteller by Georges Denis Zimmerman2002

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