"Merrie England Once More? The Morris Revival c.1886-1951" - Matt Simons - Talk
Channel: The Morris Federation
Date: 2023-04-06

Born out of a widespread fervour for ‘Merrie England’, the morris dance revival was part of a campaign to locate and restore an English tradition of music and dance.  This talk provides a brief overview of the revival movement from the ‘Shakespearean Bidford Morris’ of the 1880s through to the Festival of Britain in 1951. Along the way, we will encounter antiquarians and composers, social workers and radical vicars, artisan weavers and rural revivalists.  (For the purposes of this talk, morris is limited to the form now commonly known as ‘Cotswold’)

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:26 Start of talk
01:17 Credits

Recording of an online talk on "'Merrie England Once More? The Morris Revival c.1886-1951" given by Matt Simons on  3 April 2021 over Zoom.

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