Summary: Vol. 39 Issue 2

Published: July 2020

Table of contents

• Expanding the Frontier, Part One – The West Country Through Time 
  George Frampton    p2
• Some Notes on the Morris Dance – from Cecil Sharp’s Notebooks 
  Cecil J Sharp   p7
• Adderbury Morris – Before the Beginning 
  Tim Radford   p10
• In Memory of Bryan Shepherd 
  John Ekers    p12
• In Memory of Alison Thornley 
  Chris Rose  p13
• Trunkles – the Origin 
  Mike Heaney  p15
• A reappraisal of the interwar morris dance revival by an ‘historically-minded
  member of the Morris Ring’ 
  Matt Simons   p19

Editorial

What can I say about the summer of 2020? I regret the absence of reviews of festivals and workshops but as we all know, apart from virtual festivals, nothing is happening. As I write this, I would normally be looking forward to Sidmouth, to dancing on the prom and watching the John Gasson Solo Jig Competition. That is going to be a virtual competition this year – it will be interesting to see how it works. As for the content of this issue, we’re harking back to the early twentieth century for much of it, with many thanks to the contributors. Especial thanks to our very talented Light-under-a-bushel artist who has captured some of the Covid fallout in his cartoons of ‘The Morris Sighed’.