cover - fifty years of morris dancing, 1899-1949

In 1949 the Morris Ring celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary by publishing a booklet describing the background our organisation, a tribute to Cecil Sharp, and short accounts from some of the forty-three clubs that had been admitted to the Morris Ring at that time.

As we approach our seventy-fifth year in 2009, it is interesting to look back at the state of the Morris Ring at that time. Perhaps, also, it would be interesting (mainly too those in 2034), to set up a current version of the booklet for the coming anniversary, but this time using the Web.

The booklet has twenty-three pages, the arrangement of these have been changed slightly for the web version which is presented below, you can either 'read' the pages from cover-to-cover, or select individual sections from the list below

Arthur Peck was the Morris Ring Squire from 1947 until 1949, and he assembled the text as well as providing an appreciation of Cecil Sharp's work for the Morris, and a description of the foundation of the Morris Ring. Twenty-nine clubs provided a description of their state, and some others are listed, but without details. No doubt that it was as difficult then as now to get responses from some Bagmen!

I am indebted to John Jenner of Cambridge MM and the Travelling Morrice, for drawing my attention to this booklet, and then sending me a copy, thanks John!

The booklet was scanned and an OCR used to generate the text, please inform me of any errors that I have missed : , Morris Ring Web Editor