The Lost Folk

'An exceptionally thoughtful and beautifully written.' Maxine Peake 'Erudite, questing and endlessly fascinating . . . the book that British folk has long needed.' Katherine May 'A splendid museum full of strange and wonderful things.' Peter Ross 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 a