Industrial Folkways Creative Heritage Project

Folk traditions and supernatural beliefs in Industrial Age Derbyshire

Tag: Research

  • DVMWHS Research Workshop (March 2025): IF Presentation

    DVMWHS Research Workshop (March 2025): IF Presentation

    I’ll be delivering a presentation, entitled ‘Picking Up Threads or Spinning New Yarns? Investigating the Uncanny in Industrial Age Communities’, at the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Research Workshop, 12.25pm, 25 March, at the Strutts Community Centre, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1UU. The working abstract for the presentation is as follows: The Industrial Folkways project explores…

  • How Might We Investigate Industrial-era Ritual and Belief?

    How Might We Investigate Industrial-era Ritual and Belief?

    Future posts will go into more detail regarding how the project goes about looking for and analysing evidence for folk rites and beliefs. But for now, I’ve outlined a few of the tasks involved in project work. The About page mentions some of the sources examined alongside historic environments and material culture; so here, I’m…