Folklore Society Review

From Runes to Ruins was nominated for the Folklore Society's non-print media award 2014. The judges released the following statement.

"This very professionally produced film by Tom Rowsell and Jamie Roper is a lengthy documentary following Rowsell’s personal investigation, starting with an ancient earthen burial mound remembered from his childhood. He explores Anglo-Saxon haunted barrows and pagan shrines to the dead; seeks evidence for roots of a pagan past by consultations with neo-pagans and Viking re-enactors, and finds healing gods and ancient cultures in old chronicles."

The Folklore Society's Non-Print Media Award

"From Runes to Ruins" has been short listed for The Folklore Society's Non-Print Media Award. 
Winners will be announced on 19th November. 

Rival entries include: 

•  The Barley Mow: Field Recordings and a Film made in Suffolk by Peter Kennedy in the 1950s. Selected and presented by Reg Hall. DVD, produced by The Voice of the People.
   
•  Bishopsgate Voices: A Celebration of the Lives of Ordinary People from London’s East End through Oral History. DVD, produced by Bishopsgate Institute.
   
•  Cecilia Costello: “Old Fashioned Songs”. DVD, produced by Musical Traditions.
   
• “I Pray you pay Attention and listen to my Song”: More Traditional Songs from around Lough Erne’s Shore, from the Keith Summers’ Collections 1977-1983. DVD, produced by Musical Traditions.
   
• Irish Folk Furniture. DVD, produced by Tony Donoghue.
   
•  “The Last of Old England”: A Celebration