




Ĭharlotte Burne edited the journal between 18. As the head of David Nutt in the Strand, Alfred Nutt was the publisher from 1890. Joseph Jacobs edited the first four annual volumes as the Quarterly Review, succeeded by Alfred Nutt. Incorporating The Archæological Review and The Folk-Lore Journal". The journal began as The Folk-Lore Record in 1878, continued or was restarted as The Folk-Lore Journal, and from 1890 its issues were compiled as volumes entitled "Folk-Lore: A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution, & Custom. The society publishes, in partnership with Taylor and Francis, the journal Folklore in four issues per year, and since 1986 a newsletter, FLS News. Ethel Rudkin, the Lincolnshire folklorist, was a notable member her publications included several articles in the journal, as well as the book Lincolshire Folklore. Ī long-serving member and steady contributor to the society's discourse and publications was Charlotte Sophia Burne, the first woman to become editor of its journal and later president (1909–10) of the society. Later historians have taken a deeper interest in the pre-modern views of members such as Joseph Jacobs. Some prominent members were identified as the "great team" in Richard Dorson's now long outdated 1967 history of British folklore, late-Victorian leaders of the surge of intellectual interest in the field, these were Andrew Lang, Edwin Sidney Hartland, Alfred Nutt, William Alexander Clouston, Edward Clodd and Gomme. Gomme, was for many years a leading member. William Thoms, the editor of Notes and Queries who had first introduced the term folk-lore, seems to have been instrumental in the formation of the society and, along with G. The Folklore Society office is at The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 50 Fitzroy Street, London. The Society is a registered charity under English law. The foundation was prompted by a suggestion made by Eliza Gutch in the pages of Notes and Queries. It was founded in London in 1878 to study traditional vernacular culture, including traditional music, song, dance and drama, narrative, arts and crafts, customs and belief. The Folklore Society ( FLS) is a national association in the United Kingdom for the study of folklore.
