Cotswold Morris

The following publications on Cotswold Morris provided by the Morris Federation are available:

• (Cotswold) Morris Basics and Beginners Roy Dommett, 1992.
• Cotswold Morris Dancing – a Glossary of Terms 1984
• Adderbury Tradition – Cotswold Morris Dancing Tim Radford, 1989
• Hinton – Traditional and Created Cotswold Morris Dances 2001
• Raglan Tradition 1999
• Cotswold Morris Dancing – Wheatley Tradition 1984

The following publications on Cotswold Morris provided by others are available:

• The Music Tells You – The Origins of Cotswold Morris Music, Gwilym Davies, 2023 with sound recordings.

Historical publications on Cotswold Morris are available online or to download from the Internet Archive or Project Gutenberg:

• The Morris Book “in two parts” (Part I) (1907) (1907) by Cecil Sharp & Herbert MacIlwaine. Sharp is the best-known collector of English folk music.  His interest in folk dance was reawakened in 1904, when he was approached by Mary Neal and Herbert MacIlwaine of the Espérance Club, looking for folk dances for their girls to perform, This sparked renewed contact with William Kimber, who Sharp had seen playing concertina for the Headington Quarry Morris in 1899,  and the subsequent collection of dances and the development of dance notation (the music was the easy bit!). The result was the publication in 1907 of The Morris Book. This the e-book edition of Part I by Project Gutenberg.
• The Morris Book “in two parts” Part II (1909). A digitised facsimile from the Internet Archive (“IA”).
• The Esperance Morris Book (part I) by Mary Neal CBE who, with the girls of The Esperance Club was a leading spirit and instigator of the early 20th Century’s Folk Song and Dance Revival.  Published 1910. [IA]
• The Esperance Morris Book (part II) (1911). [IA]
• The Morris Book Part I 2nd ed. (“Revised and entirely re-written”, 1912). [IA]
• The Morris Book, Part II 2nd. ed. (1919). [IA]
• The Morris Book Part III (1910). Also The Morris Book, Part III 2nd ed. (1924). [IA]
• The Morris Book Part IV (1911). [IA]
• The Morris Book Part V (1913). [IA]

• 8 Morris Dance tunes arranged for piano by Sharp & MacIlwaine, (Internet Archive)