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| Title | Author/Editor | Publisher | Edition | Date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England's Dances - Folk Dancing Today and Yesterday | Douglas Kennedy | G. Bell & Sons Ltd | 1949 | ||
| The Sword Dances of Northern England Parts I and II | Cecil J Sharp | Novello & Co. Ltd. | 2nd | 1951 | |
| The Morris and Sword Dances of England | The Morris Ring | 9th | |||
| The Lancashire Morris Dance | Maud Karpeles | Novello & Co. Ltd. | |||
| Cecil J Sharp | A H Fox Strangways | Oxford University Press | 1933 | ||
| The Morris Book Pt III | Cecil J Sharp and Herbert C MacIlwaine | Novello & Co. Ltd. | 1st | 1910 | |
| The Morris Book Pt I | Cecil J Sharp and Herbert C MacIlwaine | Novello & Co. Ltd. | 2nd | 1912 | |
| The Morris Book Pt III | Cecil J Sharp and Herbert C MacIlwaine | Novello & Co. Ltd. | 2nd | 1924 | |
| The Country Dance Book Pt I | Cecil J Sharp | Novello & Co. Ltd. | 2nd | 1934 | |
| The Country Dance Book Pt IV | Cecil J Sharp and George Butterworth | Novello & Co. Ltd. | 3rd | 1927 | |
| Old English Customs | Roy Christian | David & Charles Ltd | 1972 | ||
| Wedding Customs and Folklore | Margaret Baker | Rowman and Littlefield | 1977 | ||
| The North Skelton Sword-Dance and The Newbiggin Rapper Sword-Dance | EFDSS | 1971 | |||
| A Harvest of Festivals | Marian Green | Longman Group Ltd | 1980 | ||
| Everyman’s Book of English Country Songs | Roy Palmer | JM Dent & Sons Ltd | 1979 | ||
| London Lavender | E V Lucas | Methuen & Co Ltd | 13th | 1919 | |
| Traditional Dance Volume Two Historical Perspectives | Theresa Buckland | 1983 | |||
| The Morris Book Pt I | Cecil J Sharp and Herbert C MacIlwaine | Novello & Co. Ltd. | 2nd | 1912 | |
| English Folk Song - some conclusions by C J Sharpe | Maud Karpeles | E P Publishing | 4th | 1972 | |
| The Boosbeck Traditional Long Sword Dance | Leta M Douglas | EFDSS | 1975 | ||
| 8 Morris Dances of England and Flamborough Sword Dance | Nibs Matthews | EFDSS | 1975 | ||
| Morris Dancing at Ducklington | Keith Chandler | 1984 | |||
| English Ritual Drama: A geographical Index | E C Cawte, Alex Helm and N Peacock | The Folklore Society | 1967 | ||
| The Abbey Girls Again | E J Oxenham | Collins | 1951 | ||
| The Abbey Girls in Town | E J Oxenham | Collins | 1968 | ||
| Strangers at the Abbey | E J Oxenham | Collins | 1954 | ||
| The Abbey Girls Go back to School | E J Oxenham | Collins | 1949 | ||
| A Window on Folk Dance | Lucile Armstrong | Springfield Books Ltd | 1985 | ||
| Whittlesey Straw Bear | George Frampton | Cambridge Libraries | 1984 | ||
| Fieldtown Dances and Jigs | Bert Cleaver | The Morris Ring | 1985 | ||
| Comes the Morris dancer in… | Doc Rowe | The Morris Ring | 1984 | ||
| Sherborne Dances and Jig | Bert Cleaver | The Morris Ring | 1983 | ||
| A nest of singing birds | Lavender Jones | 1978 | |||
| The Roots of Welsh Border Morris | Dave Jones | 1988 | |||
| The Morris and Sword Dances of England | Arthur Peck | 1978 | |||
| Discovering English Folk Dance | Hugh Rippon | Shire Publications | 1981 | ||
| The Gloucestershire Old Spot Morris Dancers | |||||
| Bedlam Morris by Michael Healey | Michael Healey | Chandler Publications | 1985 | ||
| Clogmakers | Duncan Broomhead | EFDSS | 1983 | ||
| The Morris Book Pt I-III | Sharp and MacIlwaine | E P Publishing | 1974 | ||
| The Morris Book Pt IV-V | Sharp and MacIlwaine | E P Publishing | 1974 | ||
| A Handbook of Morris Dances | Lionel Bacon | The Morris Ring | 1974 | ||
| Maurice by Stops and Vyvyan-Jones | Stops and Vyvan-Jones | Spindlewood | 1988 | ||
| The Sword dances of Northern England | C J Sharp | EFDSS | 1985 | ||
| Orchesography | Thoinot Arbeau | Dover Publications N.Y. | 1967 | ||
| The Esperance Morris Book Pt I | Mary Neal | Curwen | 1910 | ||
| The Esperance Morris Book Pt I (photocopy). | Mary Neal | Curwen | 1910 | ||
| The Esperance Morris Book Pt II (photocopy). | Mary Neal | Curwen | 1912 | ||
| Old Devonshire Dances ed: Mildred Blunt | Mildred Blunt | Curwen | 1908 | ||
| Shakespearian Bidford Morris Dances | John Graham | Curwen | |||
| Sixty years of Folk | EFDSS | 1971 | |||
| Rattle up, my boys | Trevor Stone | Trevor Stone | 1980 | ||
| Mally's North West Morris Book | Carolyn Wade | Dave Mallinson Music | 1988 | ||
| Grovely, grovely, grovely and all grovely | George Frampton | 1988 | |||
| Maypole Dances | W Shaw | Curwen | 1954 | ||
| Morris and Matachin | John Forrest | EFDSS/CECTAL | |||
| The Next That Comes In is . | EFDSS | ||||
| Russell Wortley | Cambridge Morris Men | 1983 | |||
| Ring of Bells - A colouring book of Morris Dancing | Pruw Boswell | The Morris Ring | |||
| The dancing tradition of Headcorn Morris Men Sept 83 - May '85 | Ian Graham | ||||
| Roy Dommett's Morris Notes Vol 1 Pt 1 Cotswold or Wychwood Morris | Roy Dommett | CDSS | 1986 | ||
| Roy Dommett's Morris Notes Vol 2 North-West Morris | Roy Dommett | CDSS | 1986 | ||
| Roy Dommett's Morris Notes Vol 3 Garland Dances | Roy Dommett | CDSS | 1986 | ||
| Roy Dommett's Morris Notes Vol 4 Sword Dances | Roy Dommett | CDSS | 1986 | ||
| Roy Dommett's Morris Notes Vol 5 Other Morris | Roy Dommett | CDSS | 1986 | ||
| The Yorkshire Morris | Paul Davenport | The Morris Ring Archives | |||
| Women's Morris Federation - Glossary Cotswold | WMF | 1981 | |||
| Cotswold Morris Dancing - A Glossary of Terms | MF | 1984 | |||
| Cotswold Morris Dancing - Wheatley Tradition | MF | 1984 | |||
| Abram Circle Dance | MF | 1985 | |||
| North West Morris Dancing - a selection from Trefor Owen's Collection | MF | 1988 | |||
| Adderbury Tradition - Cotswold Morris Dancing | MF | 1989 | |||
| Christmas Rhymes and Mummers in Ireland (photocopy). | Alan Gailey | ||||
| Introducing the Folk Plays of England | Ron Shuttleworth | ||||
| So you want to start Mumming | Ron Shuttleworth | ||||
| The Ladies Mumming Play | John Boyal Hyland | ||||
| Dublin City Morris Dancers - Mummers Play | 1987 | ||||
| Cheshire Folk Plays | Alex Helm | ||||
| Bradshaw Mummers | Bradsahw Mummers | 1988 | |||
| We're Jolly Boys | John Boyal Hyland | ||||
| Ten years on 1975 - 1985. | MF | ||||
| Fiddlers Fancy Morris Dancers. | |||||
| Women and the NW Morris, a brief sketch | Chas Marshall | ||||
| Morris Dancing at Spelsbury, an analytical essay | Keith Chandler | ||||
| An index to Cecil J Sharp, The Morris Book 5 vol 1911-1924 | E C Cawte | ||||
| An Introductory Bibliography on Morris Dancing | Mike Heaney | ||||
| Ancient Customs of Derbyshire. | |||||
| The Abbey Girls at Home | E J Oxenham | ||||
| Morris Jigs from: Bledington, Headington, Longborough and Bucknell | Bert Cleaver | The Morris Ring | 1986 | ||
| Morris Dancing on the Lancs. Plain - The Horwich Inquiry | David Boswell | The Morris Ring | 1984 | ||
| Six Fools & a Dancer | Anthony G Barrand | North Harmony Publishing Co., Plainfield VT | 1991 | ||
| Grovely, Grovely & All Grovely! | George Frampton | ||||
| Discovering English Folk Dance | Hugh Rippon | Shire Publications | |||
| Index to C J Sharp Morris Books 1-5 | E C Cawte | CECTAL | 1983 | ||
| Nest of Singing Birds Lavender Jones | Lavender Jones | Chegar Press | 1978 | ||
| May Day and its Customs | L M C Babb | Hereford & Worcs Co. Museum | 1980 | ||
| Welsh Morris & Other Country Dances | L Blake/DS Gwyn Williams | 1938 | |||
| The Folklore of Herefordshire | Ella Mary Leether | Sidgwick & Jackson | 1912 | ||
| White Boar Morris Foreman's Book | |||||
| World of English Folk Dance | Nigel Allenby Jaffe | ||||
| Ribbons Bells & Squeaking Fiddles | Keith Chandler | Folklore Society | 1993 | ||
| MF Info Series 1 Women and the North West Morris Dance. | MF | ||||
| MF Info Series 2 Warm-ups. | MF | ||||
| MF Info Series 3 Publicity Tips+E1145. | MF | ||||
| Morris Dancing in the English S Midlands 1660-1990 | Keith Chandler | ||||
| MF Info Series, Morris Basics Workshop & Beginners | Roy Dommett | MF | 1993 | ||
| Zen & the Art of Being a Display Dance Muso | Paul Hirst | 1993 | |||
| "We'll call once more unto your house… | Doc Rowe | 1982 | |||
| Don't Blame Me, I'm only the Triangle Player | Rob Elliot | Sq. One Pub. | 1991 | ||
| "Fit to Jump Over the Moon..." Rapper Sword Dance of Northumberland & Durham | Wallace, G., ed. Wilson, Ednie | Gateshead HBC | 1986 | ||
| British Folk Scene | N Mackinson | OUP | 1993 | ||
| Pace-Egging in Bury & Beyond | Alan J Seymour | ||||
| Discovering English Folk Dance | Hugh Rippon | c.1993 | |||
| Morris Book 1-3 | Sharp and MacIlwaine | 2nd | |||
| Morris Book 4-5 | Sharp and MacIlwaine | 2nd | |||
| Strangers at the Abbey | Elsie J Oxenham | ||||
| Robins in the Abbey | Elsie J Oxenham | ||||
| Off with his Head | Ngaio Marsh | Companion Book Club | |||
| Sword Dances of Northern England Pt 1 | C J Sharp | 1st | |||
| Sword Dances of Northern England Pt 2 | C J Sharp | 1st ? | |||
| Sword Dances of Northern England Pt 3 | C J Sharp | 1st ? | |||
| Sword Dance Tunes Book 1 | C J Sharp | 1st ? | |||
| Sword Dance Tunes Book 2 | C J Sharp | 1st ? | |||
| Sword Dance Tunes Book 3 | C J Sharp | 1st ? | |||
| Anthropology of Dance | Anya Peterson Royce | 1977 | |||
| The Dance | Sharp & Oppe | ||||
| Rinkaghyn Vannin (Dances of Mann) | Mona Douglas | ||||
| Clog Dancing Made Easy | Henty Tucker | ||||
| West Country Friendly Societies | Margaret Fuller | ||||
| Custom & Myth | Andrew Land | ||||
| Traditional Dance | Violet Alford & Rodney Gallop | ||||
| Concerning Clogs | Bob Dobson | ||||
| Reaper Man | Terry Pratchet | ||||
| Lords & Ladies | Terry Pratchet | ||||
| Discworld Companion | Terry Pratchet | ||||
| Rhymes Around the Year | Marc Vyvyan-Jones | Barefoot | 1995 | ||
| Relationship between music & dance in Cotswold Morris Performance | Janine Elliott | UCLA | 1993 | ||
| Windsor Morris - the history so far | Beth Neill | 1995 | |||
| MF Information Series: Border Morris - a brief outline | A Anderson | MF | 1995 | ||
| So you want to start mumming | Ron Shuttleworth | The Morris Ring | |||
| Introducing the Folk Plays of England | Ron Shuttleworth | The Morris Ring | |||
| Constructing a hobby animal | Ron Shuttleworth | The Morris Ring | |||
| The Roots of Welsh Border Morris | Dave Jones | Annie Jones | 1995 | ||
| Rites & Riots | Bob Pegg | Blandford Press | |||
| Dead Mens Morris | Gladys Mitchell | M. Joseph Classic Collection | 1986 | ||
| Abbey Girls Go back to School | Elsie J Oxenham | Collins | |||
| Abbey Girls Play Up | Elsie J Oxenham | Collins | |||
| Myth & Ritual & Dance Game & Rhyme | Lewis Spence | Watts & Co | 1947 | ||
| Social Dance: A Short History | A H Franks | Routledge & Kegan Paul | 1963 | ||
| Longsword Dances | Ivor Allsop | Book Press | 1996 | ||
| The Abbey Girls Win Through | Elsie J Oxenham | ||||
| Schoolgirl Ven at the Abbey | Elsie J Oxenham | ||||
| Sarata | Terry Pratchet | ||||
| Necessary to Keep Up the Day | George Frampton | ||||
| Vagrants, Rogues & Vagabonds | George Frampton | ||||
| Pity the Poor Ploughboy | George Frampton | ||||
| Molly Dancing & the Seven Champions | Elaine Bradtke | ||||
| Stations of the Sun | R Hutton | ||||
| Dancing Round the Maypole | Diana Jewitt | EFDSS | 1999 | ||
| Rushcarts in Saddleworth | Pete Ashworth | 1996 | |||
| Customs & Traditions in Britain | The Pitkin Guide | 2000 | 0-85372-992-1 | ||
| Eight Days Wonder | The Scribe | The Larks Press | 2000 | 0-948400-95-1 | |
| Dance in the Field. Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography | Theresa Buckland | 1999 | 0-333-71913-1 | ||
| "A nest of singing birds". The life and work of Ella Mary Leather of Weobley | Lavender Jones | ||||
| A Dictionary of English Folklore | Jacqueline Simpson & Steve Roud | Oxford University Press | 2000 | 0-19-210019-X | |
| Sword Dancing in Europe: A history | Stephen D Corrsin | Hisarlik Pres | 1997 | 1-874312-25-7 | |
| Lancashire Bonds | Alan & Les Bonds | Landy Publishing | 1999 | 1-87289-548-4 | |
| Wrigley's Writings. Songs and Monologues | Bernard Wrigley | Landy Publishing | 1999 | 1-87289-549-2 | |
| The Jack-in-the-Green | Roy Judge | FLS Books | 2000 | 0-903515-20-2 | |
| Kemps nine daies wonder. Performed in a daunce from London to Norwich in the year 1660 | Will Kemp | Larks Press | 1997 | 0-948400-53-6 | |
| The History of Morris Dancing 1458-1750 | John Forrest | James Clark & Co Ltd, Cambridge | 1999 | 0-227-67944 | |
| Hinton Traditional and created Cotswold Morris dances | Sue Swift | The Morris Federation | 2001 | 0 948383 127 | |
| Blind to the Bones | Stephen Booth | Harper Collins | 2003 | ||
| Step Change. New Views on Traditional Dance [signed copy] | Georgina Boyes | Francis Boutle | 1 903427 09 6 | ||
| Bampton Folklore | John Blair | Merton Ivory Press | 2001 | 1 898937 50 8 | |
| The English Mumming Play, An introductory bibliography | Eddie Cass, Michael J Preston, Paul Smith | FLS Books | 2000 | 0 903515 21 9 | |
| Discovering English Customs and Traditions | Margaret Gascoigne | Shire Publications | 2002 | 0 7478-0377-3 | |
| Folklore and Customs of Rural England | Margaret Baker | David & Charles Ltd | 1975 | 0 7153 6579 7 | |
| History and the Morris Dance | John Cutting | Dance Books Ltd. | 1962 | 1 85273 108 7 | |
| The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance | Rev. A.R. Ladell, M.A. | Wilding & Son Ltd., Shrewsbury | 1968 | ||
| Traditional Step-Dancing in Scotland | JF and TM Flett | Scottish Cultural Press | 1996 | 1 898218 45 5 | |
| Animals and the Orgins of Dance | Steven Lonsdale | Thames & Hudson | 1981 | ||
| Traditional Dancing in Scotland | JF & TM Flett | Routladge and Kegan Paul | 1964 | ||
| Russell Wortley | Cambridge Morris Men | The Hive Printers | 1980 | ||
| The Sword Dances of Northern England Song and Dance Airs books I, II and III bound volume | |||||
| The Dance | Cecil J Sharp and A P Oppe | 1924 | |||
| Morris Dancers & Rose Queens | J Haslett | Fairhaven Press | 2005 | ||
| The Story of the Flamborough Longsword Dance | Richard Traves & Trevor Stone | 2003 | |||
| Lower Swell Morris Tradition | Morris Ring Archives | ||||
| Country Dancing (photocopy) | T. Wilson | 1808 | |||
| More Honoured in the Breach than the Observance (Molly Dancing in Cambridgeshire) (photocopy) | George Frampton | 1999 | |||
| Rushbearing (reprint of 1891 book) | Alfred Burton | 1996 | |||
| … for a bit of sport'… | Richard Humphries | R & K Humphries, Linton, Cambs. | 1986 | 0 948927 00 3 | |
| Traditional Dance volume one | Theresa Buckland | Crewe & Alsager College of HE | 1982 | ||
| Morris Dancing in Abingdon to 1914 | Jonathan Leach | Chandler Publications, Eynsham | 1987 | 0 947801 13 8 | |
| The Cornish Obby Oss (reprint of 1912 book) | Thurstan Peter | Oakmagic Publications, Penzance | 1997 | 1 901163 25 3 | |
| They throw away discord… | Adderbury Morris Men | 1984 | |||
| Polka Round - The Cambridgeshire Feast Dances and the Comberton Broom Dance | Cyril Papworth | Cyril Papworth, Wendy Crouch & William Palmer | 1984 | ||
| The Early Plays of Robin Hood | David Wiles | Rowman & Littlefield, Towata, N.J. | 1981 | 0 85991 082 2 | |
| Garlands from Brasstown - a collection of contemporary Garland Dances | Kathy Wright | 1989 | |||
| Whitsun in 19th Century Oxfordshire | Alun Howkins | Routledge & Kegan Paul | 1973 | ||
| The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance | E.R. Shipman | The Benhill Press, Rugeley | 1982 | ||
| Winster Morris Dancers | Winster Morris Dancers | 1979 | |||
| The Sailors' Hornpipe | Stage Dance Council | The Dancing Times, Ltd. | 1st | 1961 | |
| Morris Dancing at Bampton until 1914 | Keith Chandler | Keith Chandler | 1983 | ||
| Handsworth Traditional Sword Dancers | Geoff Lester | Handsworth Traditional Sword Dancers | 2nd | 1979 | |
| Ritual Animal Disguise | E.C. Cawte | Folklore Society | 1978 | 0 85991 028 8 | |
| Cecil Sharp - his life and work | Maud Karpeles | Routledge & Kegan Paul | 1967 | ||
| The Hobby Horse and othe Animal Masks | Violet Alford | The Merlin Press, London | 1978 | 850361605 | |
| The History of Knutsford Royal May Day | Joan Leach |
