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Stone Warnings – Dr. Diane A. Rodgers On Stone Circles And Standing Stones In Film And Television

Photo © Diane Rodgers 2025

CCL member Dr Diane Rodgers is included as part of the special features on the new ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS from Severin films: “Super proud to be talking about stone circles on screen on the PSYCHOMANIA disc of this luxurious DVD box set – more amazing #folkhorror work from Kier-La Janisse !”

Screen grabs from Psycomainia disc.

Unquiet spirits have gathered once again: ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS: A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR (VOLUME TWO) brings together 24 films representing 18 countries for more of the best-loved, rarely seen, thought-lost and brand-new classics of folk horror, most making their disc debuts.

The set also features 55+ combined hours of new and archival Special Features including trailers, interviews, audio commentaries, short films, video essays, historical analyses and bonus feature-length films; a 252-page hardcover of newly commissioned folk horror fiction by luminaries, and much more, all curated and produced by WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED creator Kier-La Janisse.

Special Features For PSYCHOMANIA – Stone Warnings – Dr. Diane A. Rodgers On Stone Circles And Standing Stones In Film And Television

Full details at SEVERIN HERE

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The National Folklore Survey for England

CCL are pleased to announce the launch of the National Folklore Survey for England #NFS

Photographs of English Calendar customs across the seasons (from top left – The Haxey Hood, Castleton Garland, Barwick in Elmet Maypole Rising, The Burning of the Bartle, The Antrobus Mummers, Allendale New Year’s Eve Tar Barrel Parade) © Andrew Robinson 2024.

This AHRC funded research project is being led by Dr David Clarke with Dr Diane Rodgers from Centre for Contemporary Legend at SHU along with Dr Ceri Houlbrook and Professor Owen Davies, who founded the MA Folklore Studies at the University of Hertfordshire. as co-leads The project’s international co-lead is Professor Christopher Bader, chair of the Department of Sociology, Chapman University, California, who has directed two large belief surveys in the USA.

The project aims to capture an accurate snapshot of the folklore of multicultural England and gain a new understanding of the impact of colonial and empire narratives on previous surveys. The timing is important as 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the original Survey of Language and Folklore at the University of Sheffield and the ratification by the UK Government of the UNESCO convention for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).

For full details please Visit our new ‘National Folklore Survey’ section by clicking the NFS tab in the menu bar above.

#NFS lead contact email: david.clarke@shu.ac.uk