I'm just ignoring Jim's posts, based on past experience. I think Jack Campin probably had the best take on this.

I will recommend Boyes' book 'The Imagined Village', especially for somebody who has like me been actively involved in Morris or folk dance of one sort or another. We have all come across people who seem to think it is a mortal sin not to dance something according to the commandments of Sharp and Boyes' book gives us some insight into how this state of affairs may have arisen. Also good for some of the comments by Karl Dallas on the 2nd revival. I have to take it back to the library soon, but I very much enjoyed the book and lots of what it had to say. Very different from Harker though often bracketed with it.