Mr. PITT's carriage was nearly the last...he was received with very general applause; the ladies waving their white handkerchiefs from the windows as he passed." "The Procession To St. Paul's". Times [London, England], 20 December 1797, p.2.

I love Eynsham’s dancing, it’s a brilliant, lively tradition. I did a workshop with you at Sidmouth a few years ago and found it really challenging. Did your academic interest in morris history stem from being a dancer?

Is there anything from the history of morris to suggest that interest comes in cycles, and that we might be on the cusp of another revival? Boss Morris’ appearance at the Brits and interest in folklore generally suggests that we might already be in the middle of another one… Handkerchiefs are also used as an impromptu way to carry around small items when a bag or basket is unavailable. They could also serve as a substitute for a bandage over a small injury. In the United Kingdom, the habit of wearing a handkerchief with tied corners on one's head at the beach has become a seaside postcard stereotype. Meanwhile, Russia ’s government ponders a bill that would pull state funding from “producers, distributors or cinemas” that “propagandize their anti-patriotic actions, condemn the actions of state authorities and do not support the civilian population of Donbass.” Practice testing. This is where you test your child, or they test themselves, in a low stakes environment. For example, by using flashcards. The Sikhs are no more nor less religious than other people. Out of the 20,000 living in London about two thousand are listed as members of the congregation at the Gurdwara in Shepherd’s Bush. On Sundays some three hundred may arrive to worship and meet together over tea and sweet cakes, but other services are held in halls and hired rooms in Southall and other districts where the Sikhs are living in sizeable numbers.

What else might those already involved in, or with a passing knowledge of morris, find most surprising about the history you lay out? Of the immigrants only about one in four has retained the Sikh custom of uncut hair on head and face. It is too difficult to wash and dry, they say. But once away from family influence and pressure many can see little point in obeying an inconvenient regulation drawn up by the last of the ten Gurus, Gobind Singh.The renowned artist Manolo Pérez, who ran Cuba ’s most famous animation house (Estudios de Animación ICAIC) between 1970 and 1984, passed away in early August . He was 86. Sikhism started when a young Punjabi, Nanak Chand, who was born in 1469, set out to draw together the Hindus and the Muslims. He believed that there was much in common between the two faiths and that the misery and the wars which had so hurt the Punjab over the centuries could be avoided if the two peoples could be brought together. Accompanied by a Muslim musician and a Hindu peasant, Nanak preached his message of the brotherhood of man throughout the Punjab and as far afield as Assam and Ceylon. His crusade was against the fanaticism and intolerance of the Muslim faith as much as against the meaningless rituals and discriminations against castes and sex which were marring the Hindu religion. This concept had existed since at least the ‘40s. “ The Knot in the Handkerchief is a very old one,” Týrlová said in 1979. It wasn’t a plan for a story — just a thought that she could turn a handkerchief into a character. (Týrlová’s choice of physical material drove many of her films, guiding her other decisions.)