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 - Plots  

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15 The Lamentable and Tragicall History of Titus An-/dronicus [Folger L252a]
26 The Whig Rampant:/OR, EXALTATION [Euing 389]
47 THE/ Lord RUSSELS/ Last Farewel to the World [Huntington HEH 18016]
50 A New Song of Lulla By,/ OR, Father Peter's Policy Discovered [Bodleian Wood E25 (110)]
68 Poor Robin's Dream, commonly call'd, Poor Charity [Euing 285]
96 Young Jemmy,/ OR,/ The Princely Shepherd [Roxburghe 2.556]
108 The Wandring Jews Chronicle [Pepys 1.482-83]
112 Rebellion given over House-keeping:/ OR,/ A General Sale of Rebellious Houshould stuff [Pepys 2.209]
117 The Protestant Court of England:/ OR, THE/ Joyful Coronation of K. William III. and Q. Mary II [Pepys 2.275]

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