This page was created to provide a resource for the Department of History 'Sources and Methods' course and draws upon broadside ballads from the Murray collection (bound volumes Mu23-y.1-4). For ...

Explore the Welsh ballads web pages. The heyday of broadside ballad printing in Wales was the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The eighteenth-century broadsides were in the main eight-page ...

What is Embodied Humanities? In a recent essay entitled “Why Making? The Making of a Broadside Ballad” Andrew Griffin explores the process whereby he and fellow colleagues – both faculty members and ...

The library holds an extensive collection of 18th and 19th century Welsh ballads. Broadside ballads consisted of a piece of popular verse, typically of unknown authorship, printed on one side of a ...