We are delighted to announce that for August’s Text Book Club, we will be discussing Lally MacBeth’s The Lost Folk.

The book club will be held upstairs in our Reading Room at 10am on Sunday 16th August, and is suitable for ages 18+. Tea and coffee will be provided.

To book your ticket, please click HERE.

About the book - A 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 a mission to breathe new life into these rapidly disappearing customs. She reminds us that folk is for everyone, and does not belong to an imagined, halcyon past, but is constantly being drawn from everyday lives and communities.

As well as looking at what folk customs have meant in Britain's past, she shines a light on what they can and should mean as we move into the future - encouraging us to use the book as an inspiration, and become collectors and creators of our very own folk traditions.