Where to find out more — Other sources of information on historical dance

• The Calendar and our pages for Classes and Teachers and Groups  list balls and dances, events and performances, workshops, summer schools and conferences, as well as regular classes, through out the UK and overseas. Our pages are the place to find a class in Renaissance, Baroque, Regency or Victorian Dance and then to find somewhere for an evening out doing the dances.
• The Early Dance Circular  is sent to members three times a year, in January, May and September. It contains news, views and reviews pertaining to historical dance in general and to EDC activities. A specimen copy will be sent on request at members@earlydancecircle.co.uk.
• Dance through History, on this website,  is a regularly updated downloadable resource on each main period of early or historical dance from the Middle Ages to the 19th century and on the related arts of music and costume for dancing.  There is abundant reference to books and pamphlets for further reading. It also includes a section on Learning the Dances. See Dance through History
• EDC publications  include books on specific topics and the Proceedings of past EDC conferences. Regency dance music is also available. See Publications.
• The Historical Dance Society (HDS; formerly the Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society) issues inexpensive instructional booklets and practice tapes from its annual summer schools, on particular periods of historical dance. Contact Historical Dance Society
• The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library  at Cecil Sharp House (2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY) is mainly devoted to Folk Dance and Song, but it also has a substantial section on historical dance. Use of the Library is free to members of the English Folk Dance and Song Society;  non-members pay a daily fee.
• The British Library, 96 Euston Road, St Pancras, London, NW1 2DB, holds many rare books relating to early dance.
• The National Resource Centre for Historical Dance, set up by the EDC,  is a working library open to the public, that covers all aspects of early dance.  This includes dance music, period dress (including costume-making).  For more information, see NRCHD
• Digitised collections of Historical Dance publications, several excellent on-line archives exist with links through to digitised  primary source material provided by libraries, museums and similar archives around the world. Examples include the Library Of Dance, the Historical Dance Bibliography and the Regency Dance Sources pages.