この雑誌は1878年に『The Folk-Lore Record』として創刊され、『 The Folk-Lore Journal』として継続または再開され、1890年からは『Folk-Lore: A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution, & Custom. Incorporating The Archæological Review and The Folk-Lore Journal』という長いタイトルで巻にまとめられました。ジョセフ・ジェイコブスは最初の4巻を『Quarterly Review』として編集し、その後アルフレッド・ナットが引き継ぎました。ストランドにある出版社デイビッド・ナットの責任者であったアルフレッド・ナットは、1890年からこの雑誌の発行者でした。
2018: Martin Graebe, As I Walked Out: Sabine Baring Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall (Signal Books)
2019: Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (Oxford University Press)[26]
2020: William G. Pooley, Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914 (Oxford University Press)
2021: Jonathan Y. H. Hui (ed. and trans.), Vilmundar saga viðutan. The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider (Viking Society for Northern Research)
2022: Marina Montesano (ed.) Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century (Routledge)
2023: Una McIlvenna, Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 (Oxford University Press)
2024: Tabitha Stanmore, Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (The Bodley Head).
2025: Ann Schmiesing, The Brothers Grimm: A Biography (Yale University Press)
Coote Lake Medal
Coote Lake Medal awarded to Ethel Rudkin (North Lincolnshire Museum)
The Coote Lake medal is awarded by the Committee of the Folklore Society for "outstanding research and scholarship" in the field of Folklore Studies.[27]
The award is named in honour of Harold Coote Lake (1878-1939), an active member of the Folklore Society in the 1920s and 1930s (who served as both Treasurer and Secretary of the Society at points in that period).
↑ Snell, KDM (1994). "Georgina Boyes, The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology and the English Folk Revival, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 1993. xiv + 285 pp. £35.00 hb. ISBN 0 7190 2914 7" . Rural History . 5 (2): 228– 229. doi : 10.1017/S0956793300000728 . ISSN 1474-0656 . S2CID 163052893 .