The Morris Ring Archive
The Stanton Harcourt Page

Last updated 14 November 1998

It is convenient for many Archive users to be able to consult material which is grouped together in easily accessible form by tradition or geographical location. The Ring Archive has collated such information and the items relating to Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire are detailed below.

Itens marked with a [] are "restricted to Archive" and are only available for consultation within the Archive, all others can be suplied in photocopy form.

A.  Published Material.

• Bacon, L., A Handbook of Morris Dances, London: The Morris Ring, (1974), 293-298.
  The relavant pages from the "Black Book". Contains interpretations of Stanton Harcourt dances, together with music.

• Chandler, K, Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands, 1660-1900. A Chronological Gazetteer,  London: Hisarlik Press, (1993), 204.
  
  
  B. Unpublished Material.

• Extracts from Roy Dommett's Papers.
  Dommett's interpretations of Stanton Harcourt, based upon manuscript sources. Includes music.
  
• Manning MSS, Top. Oxon. d.200,
  
  f73    Interview by T.J. Carter with Maxey Mitchell, Tumbledown Dicks, Cumnor, Berks.  No date.
  f237-239  Interview with Joseph Goodlake, Yarnton, Oxfordshire.  March 1901.
  
• Datchet Morris Men Papers.
  Notations of the Stanton Harcourt dances as interpreted by the Datchet men in the early 1980s.  Includes The Clock, Princess Royal,The Nightingale and Constant Billy.
  
  
  Further information concerning material collected in Stanton Harcourt can be found in the Williams MSS.  The relevant papers are not presently available in the Archive.