Summary: Issue 9
Published: Dec 1996
Editor: Vince Rutland

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Table of contents

• Well and truly an international affair
• NUT under threat
• £27,633 Lottery win for Spen
• A4E – New Arts Lottery Grants scheme launched
• Longsword Book
• The Page 3 Boys
• Swords at the Seaside
  The Scarborough Sword Spectacular, May 1996
• A Year in the Life…
• A DERTYy break in ’97
• Scarborough Spectacular set for a 1998 return
• DERT ’96 BURTON 
• A North East Tour
• Sidmouth 96
• Letters
• Dancing Miners

Summary

Issue 9 of The Nut (December 1996) is dominated by major milestones for rapper sword dancing. It gives extensive coverage to DERT ’96 at Burton-upon-Trent, praising Ryknild Rabble’s smooth organisation and marking the first truly international rapper tournament, with visiting teams from mainland Europe.

A second centrepiece is the Scarborough Sword Spectacular, described as the largest sword dance gathering ever, involving 45 teams from ten countries.

The issue also reports High Spen Blue Diamonds’ landmark Arts Lottery grant, continues George Wallace’s North East Tour with a detailed study of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, and includes lively letters, humour, and reflections on Sidmouth, underlining a confident, outward-looking rapper scene at its mid-1990s peak.