The term Border Morris refers to a collection of individual local dances from villages along the English side of the Wales-England border in the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire. They are part of the Morris dance tradition.
Read more about Border Morris: History, Border Morris Revival, Black Face, Other Black-face Traditions
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“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.”
—William Morris (1834–1896)