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Morris Notes 
In something like twenty-five years of playing, dancing, choreography and collecting, I've amassed a fair quantity of raw material in note form from various sources. The Morris Federation has copies of a lot of this stuff, but that's maybe not a great deal of use if you live in the U S A, so I'm sticking a few of my favourites up on the web. Scanning, OCRing and setting this stuff is a really slow process, so this will take some time, but if you have requests, feel free to ask. I've also made a start on the "onionskins" from the Helm collection. These are indexes to the fuller material in the collection, amassed and filed by hand. I've got photocopies of the "border" related ones and I'm going to scan these in over the next few months before they deteriorate too badly, being ten years old already. It's experimental so far, so comments would be appreciated. Here are some illustrations of early morris dancers: ..and not strictly morris, but of a period with the above and since it comes up in conversation now and again, here's my version of the Coplande ms., with the choreographies from the Salisbury Catholicon.
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