Inventories of Living Heritage - Call for submissions open until 27 March

[Rodgers, Diane]

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Subject: Inventories of Living Heritage - Call for submissions open until 27 March

 

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Hello,

We are just past the mid-way point of our call for submissions to the first iteration of the inventory(ies) of living heritage in the UK, and already have over 450 Expressions of Interest, which make for fascinating browsing on the website!

We're asking everyone to start filling in the full submission form by the deadline of Friday 27 March. To help, there are some (fictional!) case studies on the website, we're running information sessions to talk through the form, and the Community Support Hubs are available to provide help and advice.   

If you haven't submitted anything yet and are thinking about your living heritage, there's still plenty of time to start talking to your community and putting together a submission to make sure your living heritage is recognised and included in the inventories when they launch later this year. If you're not able to meet the 27 March deadline, there will be another call for submissions next year, but we're encouraging everyone to be part of the first iteration.

Otherwise, please do spread the word and tell everyone about the inventories.  We want to start a conversation about living heritage - all the different types there are and how important / valuable it is, so please do join in that conversation and tell your friends / family / colleagues / communities.

Thanks,
The Living Heritage Team

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Very best wishes,

Diane

Dr. Diane A. Rodgers Pg Cert LTHE, FHEA

Senior Lecturer, Co-founder of Centre for Contemporary Legend 

President-elect of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

Co-Investigator National Folklore Survey (AHRC Catalyst project)

Co-Director Dracula Returns to Derby Foundation

Sheffield Hallam University | d.ro...@shu.ac.uk  | @dianearodgers.bsky.social | she/her  

Recent articles:

'Monstrous Megaliths: Ancient Stones in Folk Horror Film and Television – Showing, Telling and Making On-Screen Folklore', Rodgers, D. A.,  Journal of British Cinema and Television 22: 3 (2025), pp. 364-386

Algorithmic Alchemy: The Power of the Witch on YouTube, Zhang, Belinskaya, Rodgers and Rodriguez-Amat, Folklore 136: 4 (2025), pp. 620-651

Please note I work part time Mon-Weds.