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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1 A proper new Ballad, intituled, The wandring Prince of Troy [Pepys 1.84-85]
33 The most Rare and Excellent History,/ Of the Dutchess of Suffolks Callamity [Euing 228]
48 A pretty Ballad of the Lord of Lorn, and the false Steward [Pepys 1.494-95]