The first of our big programme of online fundraising talks is on 13 September, with recordings available for all ticket holders. Click the image to book, and come and enjoy some historical spiritualism with @IcySedgwick.

We are moving into new premises so that we can provide even better access to our print reference library, document archives and other materials. Please help us to stay open longer with a small donation if you can, and please share. Full story here:.

The Folklore Library and Archive is dedicated to trying to preserve AT-RISK cultural heritage materials that are folklore specific adjacent such as Folkloristan. If you know of other at-risk materials or archives that you think should be preserved, please get in touch.

We are delighted to have been working with.@folkloristan to preserve their vital collection of Pakistani cultural heritage. Today we made the archive public and you can see it freely at. Material is being added to this archive frequently

We are setting up for a fascinating talk on the history of photography in Devon in the Folklore Library and Archive. And we have lots of toys to look at too

Behold this classic edition of A Christmas Carol which we have just accessioned to the library through donation. Such great cover art

A new blog post from our @GWRHelp Customer and Community Improvement Fund grant-funded rail heritage project is now on our website, detailing our recent meeting with @MelJStride .

This event is funded by the @MidDevonDC Growing Communities Fund.

We have another free event as part of our Warm Winter programme in the library tonight. Historian Tony Gale is talking about Ogilby’s Brittany’s, published in 1675, and explaining how we can see it as Britain’s first road atlas

RT @BeccaSmithArt: New multi-media art exhibition on archaeology, cartography and folklore coming to the Silk Museum #Macclesfield @the_sto….

The Folklore Library and Archive charity crowdfunder to put staff in place for a year to get more material catalogued and accessible to everyone online is just £50 shy of its first £2k. If you can share the appeal, or throw anything in, please help.

We are hosting an evening with Dom Lee, local filmmaker, this evening in the Folklore Library and Archive as part of our Warm Winter programme of free events funded by @MidDevonDC Growing Communities Fund

RT @MelJStride: Great to sit down with @LibraryFolklore to share insights on the Dartmoor Line’s reinstatement. P….

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Folklore Library & Archive major fundraiser so far. If you have made a donation, you will receive a personal message of thanks soon. If this is new to you, please read the announcement below and visit.

PLEASE read this really important message about The Folklore Library and Archive and if you can help follow this link. Even if you can't help directly, please forward this message on to everyone you can. These archives are valuable. Thank you.

For a long time, we have been collecting and archiving images of postbox toppers. We would like to try and preserve some of these actual items in our collections with a view to creating an exhibition and so will need to seek donations. Can you volunteer to help us do this?

It’s the first of our free Warm Winter events in the library today, supported by @MidDevonDC #GrowingCommunitiesFund. We have a full audience for our Wassail Concert with Jim Causley, Simon Pope and Bill Murray

A couple of lovely spooky books donated to our print library. Y @BRIANARNOPP recently. Thanks for sending them :)

RT @DisabledTales: Have you got your tickets yet?! 👇.

We are hosting a series of FREE events in the library again this winter as part of the warm space programme. We kick off with a Wassail Concert on January 19th. January events are on the poster below. We will share February and March events soon. Please contact us to book