Website of the Week (WoW) #205: The Wand’ring Jew’s Chronicle

Images and transcriptions from the 14 surviving editions of the English historical ballad, The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle, printed between roughly 1630 and 1830 in various versions and formats. The ballad recounts the history of the British monarchy starting with William the Conqueror.

Site also contains a bibliography and a tool for comparing the ballad’s woodblock illustrations.
http://wjc.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

Website of the Week (WoW) #110: The Word on the Street

Website of the Week (WoW) #110: The Word on the Street This collection at the National Library of Scotland contains broadsides from 1650 to 1910 and includes detailed commentary on each broadside, transcription, downloadable facsimile, and searchabil…

Website of the Week (WoW) #110: The Word on the Street

This collection at the National Library of Scotland contains broadsides from 1650 to 1910 and includes detailed commentary on each broadside, transcription, downloadable facsimile, and searchability across title, subject, or keyword.


The Word on the Street – Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland
digital.nls.uk
Online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides. These single sheets carried public notices, news, speeches and songs that could be read or sung aloud. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions..

Website of the Week (WoW) #89: Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project

Website of the Week (WoW) #89: This project from the University of Washington indexes ballads from the Spanish-speaking world and scholarship about them.Pan-Hispanic Ballad Projectdepts.washington.edu

Website of the Week (WoW) #89: This project from the University of Washington indexes ballads from the Spanish-speaking world and scholarship about them.

Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project
depts.washington.edu