In 1903, the Victorian composer Cecil Sharp began a decade-long journey to collect folk songs that, he believed, captured the spirit of Great Britain. A century

Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's stu

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ -

In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that Englan

One hundred seventy-six ballads arranged by subject area.