The Sailor's Tale
The Folklore Society Presidential Address 2024
by Prof. David Hopkin
Tuesday 17 September 2024, 17:00 BST
David 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 Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture 1766-1870 (Gladstone Prize 2002) concentrated on popular prints; his second, Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France (Katharine Briggs Award 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 Lace in Context.
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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, but only those present in person are entitled to vote. 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.
