The Sailor's Tale

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Prof. David Hopkin looks at a distinctive tradition of maritime storytelling in The Folklore Society Presidential Address 2024

<h3>The Sailor's Tale</h3>The Folklore Society Presidential Address 2024by Prof. David HopkinTuesday 17 September 2024, 17:00 BSTDavid Hopkin is a social and cultural historian of modern Western Europe (c.1760-c.1914). He works with oral and popular cultural sources - the kind of material left by people who are otherwise underrepresented in the archive. His first monograph <a href="https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843838432/soldier-and-peasant-in-french-popular-culture-1766-1870/" title="https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843838432/soldier-and-peasant-in-french-popular-culture-1766-1870/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture 1766-1870</a> (<a href="https://royalhistsoc.org/prizes/gladstone-history-book-prize/rhs-gladstone-past-winners/" title="https://royalhistsoc.org/prizes/gladstone-history-book-prize/rhs-gladstone-past-winners/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gladstone Prize</a> 2002) concentrated on popular prints; his second, <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/voices-people-nineteenth-century-france?format=HB" title="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/voices-people-nineteenth-century-france?format=HB" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France </a>(<a href="https://folklore-society.com/awards/the-katharine-briggs-folklore-award/#winners" title="https://folklore-society.com/awards/the-katharine-briggs-folklore-award/#winners" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Katharine Briggs Award</a> 2012) used sources such as ballads, folktales and riddles to reconstruct social interactions. He is currently working on a book about European lacemakers: for more on this project visit the website <a href="https://laceincontext.com/" title="https://laceincontext.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lace in Context</a>.Tickets are free, but we welcome donations to help support the work of The Folklore Society. To make a donation, please select the option 'Free ticket with donation'The lecture will be online via Zoom and in person at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT. Places to attend the lecture in person are limited and priority will be given to Folklore Society members. To attend in person, please email via <a href="https://folklore-society.com/contact" title="https://folklore-society.com/contact" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://folklore-society.com/contact</a>The Folklore Society's Annual General Meeting 2024 will take place after the lecture, from 18:30-19:30. Folklore Society members may attend in person or online, and all members are now entitled to vote, whether participating in person or online. To register to attend the AGM, please email via https://folklore-society.com/contact.Image: LC-USZ62-60248: "Spinning a Yarn". Seven "Old Salts" engaged in telling tall tales aboard USS Enterprise (1877-1909), circa spring 1890. Photographed by E.H. Hart, Detroit Publishing, New York. Also at NHHC as NH 47029-A. (6/5/2015), via Wikimedia Commons.

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