Four weeks is a long time in morris dancing. Only last month, stories were circulating that Morris dancing was a dying past-time. But now, if new reports are to be believed, it's enjoying a major ...

Facing extinction, the world’s oldest morris dancing group voted to admit women to their ranks. A welcome step forward – or a slight to a harmless expression of masculinity? My mouth was dry, my heart ...

He said: “We are the oldest team in Suffolk, having been started in 1958, but there was an Ipswich team run by Leslie Ford for a few years before that, and there was a Suffolk team in the 1930s. “Des ...

All the women had bobbed hair and wore long white skirts and the men were, to all intents and purposes, in cricket whites. There was a tangible sense of gay abandon as if at any moment Gatsby might ...

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Great hopes are being pinned on the legacy of the 2012 Olympics, from promoting British sporting excellence to regenerating the East End of London. But it may also prove to be a catalyst for the ...

A group of Morris dancers have been accused of racism after they "blacked up" for a performance at a folk festival. The group danced through the streets of Lichfield with black make up on their faces.

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Morris dancers at a folk festival have been banned from wearing black face make-up as part of a 500-year-old tradition. Shrewsbury Folk Festival said it was banning groups who appear with black paint ...