This ongoing project has already digitized more than 7,000 English broadside ballads, primarily from the 17th century. In addition to high-quality facsimiles, the site provides transcriptions, extensive cataloguing, search functions. background essays, and recordings of many of the ballads.
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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
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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..