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Newsletter archive 2010

Our newsletter is a printed magazine that is part of the membership offer to both our team and individual members. It is published four times a year.

Newsletter Autumn 2009

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Contents:

  • Goth Morris = evolution?
  • Missive from Oz – the Squire of the Australasian Ring
  • Living in the past – change or die?
  • Ten years after – a look back at Whitby ’99
  • Our most experienced dancer?
  • D-Unit Morris – love and morris goes global
  • Who owns your image – and should it be the BNP?
  • PEL still kicking after five years
  • Paul White – on festivals
  • A stitch in time
  • Here we go again – all blacked up and nowhere to go

Newsletter Summer 2009

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Contents:

  • Personal Accident Insurance – an update
  • TV or not TV? – get paid a fair rate?
  • People dancing – cultural olympiad report
  • Art for art’s sake? – is morris an art?
  • Boris’s bash not hooked on Hook
  • Motley making the May
  • Getting to know your council officers
  • Question time with John Ellis of Hook Eagle
  • Morris dancing meets Change4Life
  • JMO Nottingham Revels – accounts
  • Paul White – adventures in France
  • Mumming and the PEL

Newsletter Spring 2009

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Contents:

  • Obituary – Dave Hicks
  • Amplification – the sound and the fury
  • Aelfgythe – virgins no more
  • Gone in twenty years?
  • Fylde and Wakefield in Brittany
  • EBM’s 10th anniversary
  • Obituary – Ken Martin
  • Greene King salute the morris
  • Paul White – food for thought
  • Question time with Chris Pitt
  • Mumming news

Newsletter Winter 2009

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Contents:

  • New President Barry Goodman’s first prologue
  • Stitched in time part 2
  • Frolicking Foxes
  • Loose Women – we will survive
  • Question time with Mike Boston
  • DERTY invite
  • Lobster and crab festival
  • Holly Copse Molly
  • PEL the musical
  • Adderbury honours Blunt
  • Newsletters then and now
  • Can we come in?
  • NW workshops (two to choose from)
  • Going like the clappers
  • Dinosaurs Not Allowed
  • ISA insights (before the ‘it’s not a U-turn’ moment!)

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Please note: The newsletter archive is currently under reconstruction, so not all issues are currently available online. If you are looking for a particular newsletter, please contact Sam Ross (Newsletter editor).

News

Clog Stepping for Beginners Workshop

18 January 2021

Practices go online

6 January 2021

Leeds Morris Men go digital

26 December 2020

Upcoming Events

  1. Talk – Morris from the Archives – Jameson Wooders (LIVE on Zoom)

    Saturday 30 January @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  2. Workshop – North West – Lockdown Dance for 4 – Chinewrde Morris (LIVE on Zoom)

    Sunday 31 January @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
  3. Workshop – Virtual Ceilidh Calling Masterclass (LIVE on Zoom)

    Saturday 6 February @ 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  4. Talk – Septimus The Giant Shrewsbury Cobbler (LIVE on Zoom)

    Sunday 7 February @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  5. Workshops – Appalachian Clogging Basics (LIVE on Zoom)

    Saturday 13 February @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

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