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Thread #105337 Message #2166792
Posted By: Herga Kitty
08-Oct-07 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: What is Morris Dancing for?
Subject: RE: What is Morris Dancing for?
Check out "The history of morris dancing, 1438-1750", by John Forrest, or "History and the morris dance from its earliest days to 1850" by John Cutting (father of Andy)- both available from Amazon.
Forrest danced Cotswold with Datchet and Oxford University morris (also danced for a while with Earlsdon before he emigrated to the USA), John Cutting with Herga and Grand Union (the Cotswold Grand Union based in Denham, that is).
I met and chatted to Terry Pratchett at Bob and Julia Hawkes' wedding in Saffron Walden in 1992 when I was dancing with, squire of, Flowers of May, so read "Lords and Ladies" with great interest....