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Test cricket, along with darts, needs to be on the national curriculum; imagine thinking morris dancing, recorder and maths are of greater value.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2018

Ruffs and morris dancing, possibly, but it would be a close-run thing.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2011

The point is that acts such as these found nourishment in the English folk tradition, even at a time when it was less than fashionable and morris dancing was utterly beyond the pale.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2010

London's Southbank has the Oyster Band and Bellowhead as well as Chumbawamba, whose new album track Dance, Idiot, Dance imagines Nick Griffin morris dancing.

From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2010

The more ancient sports of quintain, on land and water, morris dancing, quarterstaff, archery, and such like, were all familiar enough.

From For the Faith by Everett-Green, Evelyn