The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk by Lally MacBeth Groundswell Speaker 2024 Extent: 303 pages

Extent: 303 pages

Strassmann is the perfect guide to this world: an author as much fascinated by the science and research as she is motivated by the sheer joy and wonder of the birds themselves' - James Macdonald Lockhart

with acts of shocking villainy and breathtaking courage

accounting for its initial relative failure and its subsequent immense popularity

The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk by Lally MacBeth Groundswell Speaker 2024 Extent: 303 pagesA fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as 'folk' in Britain. By its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to define, hard to preserve and even more difficult to resurrect. But folk culture is all around us; sitting in our churches, swinging from our pubs and dancing through our streets, patiently waiting to be discovered, appreciated, saved and cherished. In The Lost Folk, Lally MacBeth is on