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- Ballet Instructor's Newsletter - A brief article discussing the history of Morris Dancing.
www.100megsfree4.com/ballet/newsletter.html
- BBC Online - Beyond the Broadcast - Making History - Factsheet from a BBC Radio broadcast by Alun Howkins on the origins of Morris Dance.
www.bbc.co.uk/education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/makhist5_prog9d.shtml
- Bedcote Morris - Men's side from Stourbridge, West Midlands
users.eggconnect.net/bedcotemorris
- Betley Window and its copies - History and description of the five hundred year old Betley Window, the earliest representation of English Morris Dancers, and its several copies.
homepage.ntlworld.com/john.e.price/betley.htm
- Directory Of Online Morris Dancers (DOOMD) - A voluntary directory of morris dancers, musicians, and aficionadoes on the Internet.
www.richholmes.net/morris/doomd.html
- Hastings Jack in the Green Festival - Occurs every May over the Early May Bank Holiday weekend. Features Folk Music, Ceilidhs, Morris Dancers, Giants, and the Jack in the Green
www.jack-in-the-green.co.uk
- Home Pages of Morris and Sword Sides - An alphabetical list of morris and Sword groups that have home pages.
www.mit.edu:8001/people/jcb/morris-teams.html
- Kemps Nine Daies Wonder - Historical account of Will Kemp's marathon jig from London to Norwich.
www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/kemp.html
- Kent Sides Page - from Pete Thomas
www.btinternet.com/~pete.thomas/sides.htm
- Leicestershire Morris Dancers - A listing of all sides in Leicestershire & Rutland including contact details and a photo of each team.
www.philpreen.co.uk/folk/morris/leicsmorris.htm
- Martin's Morris dancing Page - This web page is about Morris Dancing and Morris Teams local to Leicestershire in particular.
www.martinwildig.com/mwmorris.htm
- Morris Dance in South East Queensland - A forum for discussing MDSEQ
groups.yahoo.com/group/Morris_Dance_SEQ
- Morris Dancing & May-day Games - Scanned pages from Walford's Antiquarian, 1886.
chrisbrady.itgo.com/morris/morris.htm
- Morris History in the USA - Richard Holmes' Summary of recent discussions on the MDDL
web.syr.edu/~rsholmes/morris/usa_history.html
- Morris Jargon - A short glossary for the uninitiated
www.weavemaker.com/morris/html/morrisglossary.html
- Morris Links - Rich Holmes' Compendium of all known Morris Links
web.syr.edu/~rsholmes/morris/rich/morris_links.html
- Morris Tunes - Downloadable morris tunes in WAV format
www.treewind.co.uk/morris_soundfiles.html
- Mr Fox - The Langsett Fox Dance, South Yorkshire
www.mr-fox.org.uk
- NEFFA Link Fest for Morris Teams - Directory of morris teams as provided by the New England Folk Festival Association
www.neffa.org/~neffa/Top/Folk_Dancing/Morris/Teams/index.shtml
- New Zealand Morris Dancing: Bedlam - Britannic Bedlam Morris Gentlemen. Based in Wellington.
www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/6166/bedlam.html
- New Zealand Morris Dancing: Online Directory - New Zealand Morris Sites and Email Directory
www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/6166/nzmorrisonline.html
- Nine days wonder - Contemporary historical account of William Kemps marathon jig from London to Norwich.
www.philpreen.co.uk/folk/morris/kempfull.htm
- Old Mettle - "A Very Celebrated Banbury Character"
www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/mettle.htm
- Open Morris Home Page - The 'third' of the English Morris Organisations.
www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/OMorris/OMhome.htm
- Origin of the Morris - Warning, each time you go to this page you get a different explanation/theory as to the origins of morris. It is up to you to work out which is actually true.
www.mit.edu/~jcb/Red_Herring/origins
- R----- Traditional Fictional Morris - Anti Morris (This is the 'other' morris described by Terry Pratchett) from Boston Mass, USA.
www.mit.edu/~jcb/AntiMorris
- Rattlejag Morris of Retford, Notts. England - New mixed side from Retford, Nottinghamshire.
www.rattlejag.fsnet.co.uk
- Roy Dommett's Morris Notes - Cotswold & Border Morris Notes
www.opread.force9.co.uk/RoyDommet
- San Francisco Bay Area Morris teams - One of the first local directories of Morris Dance teams and their specialities.
www.ucolick.org/~sla/morris/ba.html
- Shave The Donkey - The online newspaper for the Capering Classes. Up to date news about all kinds of Morris and related folk activities.
www.TheDonkey.org
- The Britannia Coconut Dancers - From Bacup, Lancs
www.coconutters.co.uk
- The English Folk Dance Project - These chaps claim to make, collect and preserve recordings of the dance tunes and songs that are commonly heard in connection with the traditional English dance.
www.englishfolkdance.org
- The Fabulous Fezheads - Sand-Dancers from tropical Kent.
members.lycos.co.uk/fezheads
- The Flag & Bone Gang - 'Forgotten Morris' From Yorkshire
website.lineone.net/~teddodsworth/fandb/flagbone.htm
- The Hidden Morris - Some highly illuminating documents taken from the original collectors' sources.
tradcap.crosswinds.net
- The Morris Café - A meeting place for Characters, Animals, Fools, Etc associated with Morris dance
themorriscafe.pagehere.com
- The Morris Dancer's WebRing - The Webring for Morris Dancing sites
www.philpreen.co.uk/folk/morris/webring
- The Morris Federation - Official homepage of The Morris Federation. Contains list of all Federation member teams, and some information about The Federation.
www.morrisfed.org/mf/home.html
- The Morris Ring Home Page - The Morris Ring official homepage. Contains background information about The Ring, and morris in general. Contains a list of member sides, and other details.
www.argonet.co.uk/users/johnmaher/Ring
- The Wild Hunt - Bedlam Morris - Mixed team from Croydon.
www.cuddly.demon.co.uk/wildhunt/wildhunt.htm
- UK Side Finder - Find morris sides in your area simply by clicking on a map of the uk.
www.morrisdancing.org/finder/sfcgi.html
- Yahoo! Groups: morrisdancing - Contains a discussion list, chat area, contact list, and a site list.
groups.yahoo.com/group/morrisdancing
- Mainly Morris Dancing - John Maher's excellent site listing all known morris sides with websites.
www.argonet.co.uk/users/johnmaher/mmd
- Morris Dancing Discussion List - The Morris Dancing Discussion List (MDDL) is an unmoderated listserv-based discussion group devoted to discussions, debates, and rants on all things Morris, including: Cotswold, Border, Garland, Northwest, etc.; Sword Dancing, both Long Sword and Short Sword (Rapper); Mumming, Mumming plays and other ritual drama; Molly Dancing; Abbots Bromley; and other related English ritual dancing.
web.syr.edu/~hytelnet/mddl
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