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This is interesting. It'll ban some forms of Morris Dancing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Morris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Morris https://w

• bencollier49 6y ago
  And an example of how far back this goes (from the Wiki page decribing the origins of the custom): "An event which took place in the autumn of 1450 illustrates well the way in which the often separate activities of poaching and protest could on occasion conflate. On October 1450 a large group of men entered the duke of Buckingham's park at Penshurst in Kent and carried off eighty-two deer. Thirty-two men, nineteen of them yeomen, were named in subsequent indictment which made clear that a good number had escaped by its claim that there had been a total of a hundred present (not a figure to be taken too literally). These armed men had charcoaled faces, wore long false beards and withheld their names, calling themselves servants of the Queen of the Fairies."
• DanBC 6y ago
  Many Morris dancers have switched to different forms of face paint. Some have moved to soot marks, some use shapes, some use different colours. Whatever the origin of blackface in border morris it ended up as pretty racist, with direct links to minstrelsy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Morris#19th-century_minstrelsy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Morris#19th-century_min...