This page includes a number of resources that may be of interest to members, including exhibitions, conferences, and awards.
NEWSLETTERS
AIMA
2025 Newsletter No. 2 (March-April)
2025 Newsletter No. 1 (January-February)
–Newsletter no. 20, June 2024 on animals (link)
UPCOMING / ONGOING EVENTS OF INTEREST TO MEMBERS
A joint lecture of the Society for Folklife Studies and the Folklore Centre, Tormorden on . Wednesday 3 December: Roy Vickery, Queer Plant Lore: Signs and Symbols.
About the event
Roy Vickery, a professional botanist, has been collecting, and writing on, the folklore of plants for over 40 years. Early in 2022 he was asked if he could recommend someone to provide a talk on queer plant-lore. After establishing what was meant by ‘queer’, he couldn’t think an appropriate speaker, so he decided to tackle the subject himself. Although this talk is still very much work in progress, he has gathered together a mass of information on this neglected subject. He shares this in the hope that some participants will add to our knowledge of it.
This event is in collaboration with The Society for Folklife Studies
IMAGE: LGBT Kew Staff Network participants, wearing pansy headdresses, at London Pride Parade, 29 July 2024
The link for this talk will be sent out a few hours before the start and again immediately prior for last minute attendees. Please check your junk folder.
Tickets available at: https://www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-details/roy-vickery-queer-plant-lore-signs-and-symbols
MUSEUMS
The following list may includes some museums that may be of interest to members:
National Mining Museum Scotland
St Fagans: National Museum of History
CONFERENCES
Conferences and events which may be of interest to Folk Life scholars:
NEWSLETTERS
International Association of Agricultural Museums
LINKS TO ORGANISATIONS ETC
A series of links to other societies and organisations that may be of interest:
AFMA: Fédération des Musées d’Agriculture et du Patrimoine rural
American Folklife Center, The Library of Congress
Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums
British Agricultural History Society
Celtic and Scottish Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen
Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore/ International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
Twist: Tablet Weavers’ International Studies & Techniques
The Society for Folklife Studies 