Contribution long abstract:

I give a brief account of the network, noting its alignment to AHRC research priorities. I discuss how the network approached UK folklore as an assemblage of three loose groups; academics (researchers and teachers), independent stakeholders (artists, writers and practitioners) and cultural industries. Language was a point of contention. I consider one aspect where I think the language was not helpful (diversity), and another where it has, in fact initiated interesting conversations (entrepreneurship). I describe how the network met, and then introduce some of the projects it attempted, and the difficulties it encountered in doing so.