Top pop from seventeenth-century England. Broadside ballads were single-sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece. This website concentrates on over 100 resoundingly successful examples that you can investigate through recordings, images and a wealth of other materials. Whether you are interested in music, art, love, gender, tragedy, politics, family life, crime, history, humour or death, you will find something to engage you here. See also User’s Guide.

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15 The Lamentable and Tragicall History of Titus An-/dronicus [Folger L252a]
35 The Judgement of God shewed upon one John Faustus/ Doctor in Divinity [Euing 145]