British Ballads and Broadsides

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  • Bodleian Library  - Provides listings of ballads that emerged during the 16th-century up until the 20th. Also known as the broadsheets.
  • English Broadside Ballad Archive  - The University of California-Santa Barbara's resource on early ballads, especially black-letter broadsides of the seventeenth century. Includes transcriptions, sample sound files, background essays, and information about the project.
  • Oxford Book of Ballads  - An anthology of ballads from the Middle Ages onwards, chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch and first published in 1910.
  • Sixteenth Century Ballads  - A project that aims to produce a collection of ballads from before 1600, with lyrics, articles, and links to other web resources.
  • Traditional Ballad Index  - Offers an annotated bibliography of folk songs of the English-speaking world, with a discography; available online and to download.
  • Welsh Ballads  - Describes a project to create a digitized collection of printed ballads for Wales; includes articles, bibliographies and indices, and links to resources.
 
 
 
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