Of course, waving handkerchiefs isn’t the sole province of the male Morris dancer. Taeppa’s Tump Ladies Morris hail from Maidenhead in Berkshire. Formed in 1981, they’ve danced at many Festivals, villages and towns in the region over the thirty years they’ve been together. Their name comes from a Saxon chieftain’s burial mound nearby in Taplow….
Waving handkerchiefs and leaping around to traditional Cotswold Morris tunes may not seem like a ‘manly’ thing to do these days, but the tradition is still alive and well in many English villages in the summer months. August saw the forty sixth Towersey music festival take place in Oxfordshire, as usual, in very much inclement…
Having missed the grand reopening of Oxford’s superbly refurbished Ashmolean Museum a few months ago, I wanted to visit it to see what sixty million pounds of resources had produced. Rick Mather, the project architect, has created a wonderfully light and airy space with an eighty foot high, glass roofed, central atrium that floods the…
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