The Morris Ring Archives

The Morris Ring has an extensive archive of morris related material, and is always interested in any such items. Please contact our archivist, if you want more information.

• Morris Ring Archive the main site for our archive
• Side Histories a list of Morris Ring sides and when they were founded and then joined the Morris Ring.
• Mumming Archive Ron Shuttleworth's archive of mumming plays.
  See also the Folk Play Research Site and Master Mummers, as well as the electronic version of the Cawte, Helm, and Peacock English Ritual Drama (ERD).
• Photographic Archive we have a large archive of morris photographs. About 100 of these are available via the site Note that this private site is password protected, if you are a member of a Morris Ring Member or Associate side you can gain access by emailing me, , (Web Editor).
• Sword Dance Archive Ivor Alsop runs our sword dance archive and has a considerable collection of videos, we hope to have a web index to these soon.
• Animal Archive Phil Underwood has an archive for the many beats in the morris! Meanwhile don't forget The Illustrious Order of Fools and Beasts!
• All of the above refer to "conventional" archives, however the advent of the web brings on another aspect of archiving, namely how do we keep records of morris material written for the web? Here is a personal view, concerning the growth of morris related sites and what can be done to preserve them for future reference. There is the additional question about archiving the Morris Ring website itself, until now (January 2008), various items from the News Columns have been placed in a file, whilst some of this is worth keeping, much can be removed. The main items to keep concern the deaths of our men, they are “gone but not forgotten”, and it is my intention to devote a section of this web site to their memory.