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I'm one of the folks behind the National Folklore Survey for England and today we launch a new podcast called Folklore Matters . For the next six weeks, we'll be releasing one episode a week where we talk to someone who is working with folklore in some capacity — collector, practitioner, researcher —to find out what drew them to folklore, and how they work with it. Crucially, we want their thoughts on the Survey, too. Me (in desperate need of a hair cut!), with my colleagues,

I'm not going to write a summary of what I've been doing in 2025 — you don't need to read another one of those. But I thought I'd post some links to recently published works in case there's anything that tickles your fancy. Songlines is proving a lovely place to publish about folklore, and folk and traditional music (and -adjacent). Recently I wrote a piece on Gatherings , a new six-part series about calendar customs, filmed and produced by Dave Brewis, who has been visiting

I didn't come up with the title but I find it hilarious! I spent most of last year editing, rewriting and fawning over my thesis, in that...