Welsh Ballads: Useful Links
Links to a number of sites relating directly or indirectly to ballads, and to folk-songs in general.
Cardiff University and the editor of this website do not accept any responsibility for the accuracy of any of the information on any of these sites.
If the link to any of the sites no longer works, please contact us. Send any comments, or suggestions for additional links, to the Editor: JamesEW@cardiff.ac.uk.
Welsh Links
St Fagans National History Museum (collections)
'A Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language 1500-1850' (Cambridge University)
J. H. Davies, A Bibliography of Welsh Ballads Printed in the Eighteenth Century (1908-11)
Project Gutenberg (Welsh Texts)
TRAC: Folk Development Organisation for Wales
Welsh Ballad Collection, University of Wales, Lampeter
'Welsh Biography Online' (WBO)
Welsh Music Research Group, Bangor University
General Links
Bavarian State Library: Early Modern Broadsides (1500-1800)
'Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads' (Oxford University)
California State University, Fresno: Folklore
Deutsches Volksliedarchiv (DVA)
'English Broadside Ballad Archive' (University of California at Santa Barbara)
English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS)
'Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America' (Contemplator)
International Ballad Commission (KfV)
James Madison Carpenter Collection Online Catalogue
John Ashton, 'Modern Street Ballads' (1888)
The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Library
'The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection'
MUNFLA (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Nineteenth-Century British Street Ballads
'North East Folklore Archive (Aberdeenshire)
The Oxford Book of Ballads (1910)
RISM Music Manuscripts Database
'The Robin Hood Project' (University of Rochester)
'The Scottish Chapbook Project' (University of South Carolina)
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
'Streetprint: Revolution and Romanticism'
University of Glasgow: Broadsides
University of Glasgow: Murray Collection