Webfeet: Morris and Sword

The web holds a wide selection of information about the Morris as a dance - for further leads see:

• The Morris Wiki
• The English Folk Dance Project (on the Wayback Machine) has a Cotwold Morris:
  • Beginner's guide
  • History
• Steve Allen's 'What is it?' which includes a 'Haphazard History' of Morris dancing.
• C.P.Clarke had a good collection of historical quotes about the Morris in Gnasher's Morris Page; now on the Wayback Machine
• For details of the dances, consult Roy Dommet's notes.

The Morris Dance Discussion list has a FAQ which give a lot of information about contacts and resources.

The umbrella site www.morrisdancing.org provides a link to the three UK Morris organisations:

• The Morris Ring
• The Morris Federation
• The Open Morris

For the sword traditions, check the Nut on the net.

There's an archive of beasts and other peripherals....

Mummers plays (or folk plays) are recorded by the Traditional Drama Research Group.

A large number of sides have home pages. These are indexed in

• The Morris Dancing Wiki
• Jeff Bigler's Wiki of sides of Morris sides (Worldwide).
• John Maher's Mainly Morris Dancing. (UK)
• S.J. Farthing's Morris Album (Southern England)

• Glaister's Gambol a Bampton fugue to Speed the Plough.