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.

Politics - Civil War/interregnum  

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5 The Ballad of the CLOAK:/ Or, The Cloaks Knavery [Pepys 2.218]
16 The Lamenting Ladies last farewel to the/ WORLD [Euing 183]
26 The Whig Rampant:/OR, EXALTATION [Euing 389]
68 Poor Robin's Dream, commonly call'd, Poor Charity [Euing 285]
79 Win at first, lose at last; or, a New Game at Cards [Bodleian Wood 401 (149v-150r)]
97 A Turn-Coat of the Times [Pepys 2.210]
102 Robin Hood newly reviv'd [Bodleian Wood 401 (27v-28r)]
111 The Famous Fight at Malago,/ Or, The Englishmen's Victory over the Spaniards [Pepys 4.204]
112 Rebellion given over House-keeping:/ OR,/ A General Sale of Rebellious Houshould stuff [Pepys 2.209]

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