Britain is named after a refugee from the Middle East who arrived here in a small boat. After Troy fell, Aeneas fled the ruins with his young son Ascanius and settled in Italy. Ascanius’ son Brutus ...

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present new folk music that centred the real Black British figures who are often ...

On a sunny March morning in Bunhill Fields, a burial ground in central London, broadcaster Zakia Sewell is musing over whether folk traditions can really be an antidote to far-right nationalism.

Folk culture is all around us. It is hiding in nooks and crannies across Britain just waiting to be discovered. We just have to learn where and what to look for. It can be hard to define what folk is, ...