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  1. 2 days ago · This website highlights 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century broadside ballads. These were popular songs (frequently with lavish woodcut illustrations) sold at a relatively affordable price and widely circulated.

  2. Jul 1, 2024 · Were ballads from Shakespeare’s lifetime varying poems all sung to a standard set of tunes, and if so, what were the tunes to which ballads were sung? Was it common for ballads to be based upon stories that were performed on stage?

  3. 5 days ago · A collection of 18 broadside ballads published in Philadelphia, New York and Boston from about 1850 to 1890. All are undated and without music; publisher information appears on 15 of the 18 ballads, composer information on 5.

  4. May 30, 2024 · the Bodleian's digital collections of ballads, with links to the English Broadside Ballad Archives digital presentations of pre-1800 ballads from other libraries, and to the folk song scholarship of the Roud Broadside Index, hosted by the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

  5. Jun 19, 2024 · “The Recruiting Officer” to the tune of “Over the Hills and Far Away” was popular during the period of the French and Indian War. The second text on this broadside from the late 1750s is the earliest known lyric called “Yanky Doodle.”

  6. 5 days ago · Listening to Broadside Ballads from the 17th Century podcast. Dr Angela McShane, Department of History Honorary Reader, features in the latest episode of "That Shakespeare Life", the #2 Shakespeare history podcast in the world, and the weekly history series on YouTube.

  7. Jun 22, 2024 · Allan Tyne was another of the many highwaymen praised in picaresque broadside ballads of the 18 th Century. I learnt this one a good few years ago from the singing of Ewan MacColl. Steve Turner sang this ballad with the Irish title Valentine O’Hara on his 1979 album, Out Stack .

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