A Man's a Man for a' That ~ Williams

A Man's a Man for a' That ~ Williams is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Thomas Wilson in 1816 and published in A Companion to the Ball Room, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2024. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

Wilson writes (page 32):

SINGLE FIGURE (Each strain repeated)
Hands 3 round on the ladies side hands 3 round on the gent^ns. side lead down the middle up again & allemande

OR THUS Set & change places with 2^d. Cu: set & back again & whole poussette

DOUBLE FIGURE (Tune played twice thro' with repeats)
Set & hands across quite round with 2^d. Cu: set & back again lead down the middle up again set to top Cu: swing corners chain figure four round with top Cu: & turn your partner

The music consists of two 4 bar strains. Probably played as a reel rather than a strathspey.

The RSCDS is interpretting Wilson's DOUBLE FIGURE

Wilson defines most of his figures in his An Analysis of Country Dancing, 3rd Edition.

Set & hands across quite round is one figure which Wilson does not define. However he defines hands across on page 12 where he defines a normal hands across but says they only turn half round (with a footnote saying it is often done by turning completely round and then back again).
So I'm going to assume that quite round actually means half round. So two bars of setting, followed by two bars to do half a hands across.
lead down the middle up again set to the top Cu: may be found on page 8 Top couple leads down to between the third couple, 1s turn and lead up to 2nd place as the second couple move up (Wilson's pictures show them moving up the sidelines and not leading), then actives set (or foot it) to the second couple. (This seems to take 8 bars)
swing corners is defined on pages 55-58 and appears to mean: the 1s turn partner by the right hand then 1st corners by the left hand, partner right, 2nd corners left and returning home the shortest way (by the left shoulder).
Chain figure for four may be found on page 76 and boils down to what anyone else would call rights and lefts.
Turn your partner may be found on page 2 and boils a two hand turn (Wilson calls a right hand turn "swing your partner").

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.

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A1	1-2	1s+2s set
	3-4	1s+2s half right hands across
A2	1-2	1s+2s set
	3-4	1s+2s half left hands across
B1+2	1-6	1s lead down, turn, lead up to 2nd place as 2s lead up, 1s face 2s
	7-8	1s+2s set to neighbor
A3	1-4	Swing corners: Partner right, 1st corner left
A4	1-4	Partner right, 2nd corner left
B3	1-4	Face partner, four quick changes of rights and lefts
B4	1-4	1s partner two hand turn