No sooner was John finished with that (effectively 10 year) original music and dance project, than he started work on what 8 years later has become his 10 Volume work Historic Dance.

In 2006, 2007 and 2008 John continued with dance teaching about 3 nights a week (including once a week at the Australian National University), continued organising and preparing the repertoire for monthly balls (12 a year for 10 years-each with a different thoughly-researched historic theme), and continued calling, teaching and playing on demand (including at festivals such as the National Folk Festival,  St.Vitis Renaissance Dance weekend) and continued to organise and teach dancing, sometimes alongside invited interstate and overseas specialists, at special weekends he and his wife have organised on Renaissance, Baroque, Regency and Victorian era themes. He also during this period directed dozens of costumed live-music dance displays of repertoire from Renaissance, Baroque, Regency and Victorian times at Festivals and open-days-including performances in all these eras at the Governor-General's and twice took a 24 strong Renaisssance dance and music troupe on tour to Queensland. All these performances were all being billed as by Earthly Delights and the Bordonian Heritage Dances, but his dance teaching was starting to be consolidated under the banner of the  Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy ('Australia’s only Academy specialising in dance, music and costume of 1450 to 1900').

In 2009 and 2010 John cut back on his private function playing and his festival appearances but still devoted 2 nights a week to dance teaching, presented 11 historically-themed public balls each year, still organised displays and dance participation for big events (from Parliament House in Canberra to Old Government House in Sydney), still led dancing for special days at schools, and still guested at some festivals (such as the Bundanoon Traditional Dance festival and the Jane Austen Festival Australia). During this period his band members and troupe were billed as 'musicians and dancers from the Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy' as most had not been part of the earlier Earthly Delights and Bordonian Heritage Dancers line-up. His main musical collaborators had become pianist Sally Taylor. In this perid he also presented a series of  public lectures hosted by the Australian Capital Territory Library Service on 'Dance, Dances and Dancing Masters'.

In 2011, in between all his regular dance teaching and displaying commitments, his now slightly-irregular public ball series (Peacock Renaissance Ball, a Russian Arc ball, a Christmas Carol Ball etc), and dancing teaching all day every day for back to back Jane Austen Festival and '19th century dance week', John undertook an 8 week trip which will involve him teaching and leading dances in a dozen different styles, from a dozen different periods at a dozen different places across north America and Europe. He not only enjoy the musical and dance company of some of the northern hemispheres leading dance musicians, teachers, organisers and researchers, but also enjoyed dancing and playing in some wonderful venues with wonderful dance communities in the US, Canada, England and Denmark.

In 2012 John's focus has been on producing a first edition of his magnum opus Historic Dance: 10 volumes of working notes on the Dance, Dances and Dancing Masters of the 1450-1900 ballroom, building a fun dance classes series and on preparing the special events such as a 16 person strong 2 hour long Journey through the Italian Renaissance show to be staged in the theatre of the National Gallery of Australia, 6 days of  'English dance from Shakespeare to Austen', and miscellaneous other displays with themes from the Renaissance to Dickens.

In all the above endeavours, John has had the invaluable assistance of his wife, Aylwen Gardiner-Garden.