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Thread #61510   Message #989917
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
24-Jul-03 - 05:09 PM
Thread Name: Sword Dances of Northern England
Subject: RE: Sword Dances of Northern England
Manitas might have some more material.... plus he knows one of the people who work in C#H library.

There's a book by Elaine Bratdke (sp - I can't lay my hand on the book to confirm), which covers the history of step and molly dancing, but Manitas has tidied it away and I can't find it. It is very good though, so he says.

When I worked in a library, I "acquired" a bound edition of some of the Esperance dances and some "English Folk Dances" as collected by Mr S, I suspect they are pre WWI editions, although I can't date them accurately.

LTS