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 - Popish Plot/exclusion Crisis  

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5 The Ballad of the CLOAK:/ Or, The Cloaks Knavery [Pepys 2.218]
8 A NEW SONG [Pepys 4.312]
26 The Whig Rampant:/OR, EXALTATION [Euing 389]
47 THE/ Lord RUSSELS/ Last Farewel to the World [Huntington HEH 18016]
112 Rebellion given over House-keeping:/ OR,/ A General Sale of Rebellious Houshould stuff [Pepys 2.209]