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Morris dancers, a quintessentially English tradition
A sun-dappled village fair. Children gaily spinning around a maypole. Cricketers on the village green. Few things evoke the splendour and tradition of an English summer so perfectly. And then come the Morris dancers, a quintessentially English tradition, as much mocked as they are loved.
Clad in white, with snowy handkerchiefs flying and silver ankle bells jangling, the fleet-footed dancers…