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.
Every time I meet Roy Dommett he seems to hand me some more notes. When I haven't seen him for a while there's this occasional thump as a big brown envelope drops through the letterbox. Nigel Sparkes is doing a sterling job putting Roy's notes up on the web and I've been avoiding duplicating any of that, but a few people have asked for some stave material in addition to my workshop and so I've given it a temporary home here, until Nigel wants to move it so it's all in one place.
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.