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Midsummer morris dancers and their mysterious goat Caprihorn: Hollie Fernando’s best portrait (opens in new tab)

‘I wanted to celebrate the women who are reinventing morris dancing. They took me to a pub and gave me a pickled egg mashed up in a packet of crisps. I felt like I’d entered a magical world’Morris used to be a very male-dominated sport, but in 1975 the Morris Federation was created specifically to allow women to join sides. An older organisation, the Morris Ring, didn’t allow teams with women to be members , yet today women account for more than half of Britain’s Morris dancers. As soon as I ...

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