Thanks to funding from the Higher Education Funding Councils via the JISC
Committee on Electronic Information, the 30,000 broadside ballads in the
Bodleian Library are now available online. There is background
information on the collections, a catalogue with indexes of the titles,
first lines, authors, performers, subjects and printers and an
iconographic index of the 17,000 illustrations; all linked to an image
database of the ballad sheets themselves. Where a score is given on the
sheet, a rendition is provided.
Visit the ballads website at http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/
For the next few weeks the database and interface will remain in the
final stages of construction -- please be patient if you encounter
problems in the meantime.
Mike Heaney
Bodleian Broadside Ballads Project
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