A bagpipe player, illustrated in the Broadside Black-letter Ballads, Printed in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by John Payne Collier (1868)
© Classic Collection A17/Alamy Stock Photo
The ‘100 Ballads’ website (www.100ballads.org) aims to offer a deep dive into 120 of seventeenth-century Britain’s most popular songs. It does this by providing a chart list of all 120 hits in order of their popularity (more about this below). When you click on a song title, you get:
■ a digital image of the hit ballad sheet
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