John Forrest (1)

Not a light read, but definitely an absorbing one. The standard of research is high and I love the way in which Forrest presents his results.

Some dislike this book becasue it refuses to draw firm conclusions, but this is one of the things I like about it. Forrest considers many possible reasons for the patterns in morris dance history that he documents, but he never reaches conclusions unless the data totally supports it. Where the data is inconclusive, he says so.

I found this book interesting, both as social history, a reminder of how much detail can be gained from old account books, and as an unravelling of the mystery of the origins and development of morris dancing.… (mere)