Folklore survey redux

Folk culture is all around us. It is hiding in nooks and crannies across Britain waiting to be discovered. We just have to learn where and what to look for. It can be hard to define what folk is, it i

From a distance, Almscliffe Crag in Wharfedale looks like a ruined citadel: a jagged spine of millstone grit rising between Leeds and Harrogate. Today it draws climbers and sightseers. But in the year

“Cornwall’s ancient history seeps into the blood and bone of all of us raised down here,” says Jane Johnson. She lives in the far west of the county, from where she works as both a writer and a publis

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