from vol. 1:
"Folk Song in England" - Steve Roud
"The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs" - R. Vaughan Williams & A.L. Lloyd (ed)
"Eighty English Folk Songs" - Cecil J. Sharp & Maud Karpeles
"Two Bold Fishermen and the English Folk Revival" - Bruce Lindsay
"Bert: The Life and Times of A L Lloyd" - Dave Arthur
"A Song for Every Season" - Bob Copper
"All in the Downs" - Shirley Collins
"Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song" - Vic Gammon
"The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs" - Steve Roud & Julia Bishop (ed
"Folk Revival" - Fred Woods
"A Book of British Ballads" - Roy Palmer (ed)
"Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales" - William Cole (ed)
"Popular Music of the Olden Time", William Chappell
from vol. 2:
"The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads", Bertrand Harris Bronson
"The Fellowship of Song", Ginette Dunn
"Travellers Songs from England and Scotland", Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
from vol. 3:
"British Ballads from Maine", Barry Phillips
"The Ballad of Tradition", Gordon Hall Gerould
"The British, Roman, & Saxon antiquities & folklore of Worcestershire", Jabaz Allies
"In Gipsy Tents", Frances Hindes Groome
"Traditional Tunes", Frank Kidson
from vol. 4:
"Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads", Lowry Charles Wimberly
"Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore", W.C. Hazlitt
"Traditional Ballads of Virginia", Arthur Kyle Davis
"The Ballad Matrix: Personality, Milieu and the Oral Tradition", William Bernard McCarthy
"Songs from David Herd's Manuscripts", David Herd and Hans Hecht
"A North Countrie Garland", James Maidment
from vol. 5:
"The Book of British Ballads", S C Hall
"The Popular Ballad", Francis B Gummere
"The Tea Table Miscellany: or, a collection of Scots sangs", Allan Ramsay
"English and Scottish Ballads", Helen Sargent and George Kittredge (Ed)
"Popular Ballads of the Olden Time", Frank Sidgwick
"The Penguin Book of Ballads", Geoffrey Grigson
"Metamorphoses", Ovid
from vol. 6:
"The ballad book; a selection of the choicest old ballads", William Allingham
"The Viking book of folk ballads of the English-speaking world", Albert B Friedman
"Narrative singing in Ireland : lays, ballads, come-all-yes, and other songs", Hugh Shields
"Twelve Romantic Scottish Ballads: With the Original Airs", Robert Chambers
"The Ballads of Scotland", William Edmondstoune Aytoun
"Death in the Ballad: A Comparative Study", Agnes McDougall
"Ancient Ballads: Traditionally Sung in New England", Helen Hartness Flanders
"Hungarian classical ballads and their folklore", A. M. Leader
"Popular culture in early modern Europe", Peter Burke
"Ancient Meols: or, Some account of the antiquities found near Dove Point", A. Hume
"Ballads and sea songs from Nova Scotia", W. Roy Mackenzie
from vol. 7:
"Folk ballads and songs of the lower Labrador coast", MacEdward Leach
"The perilous hunt: symbols in Hispanic and European balladry", Edith Randam Rogers
"The new American songster", Charles W Darling
"Rise up Singing", Peter Blood
"Some British Ballads", Arthur Rackham
"The Book of British Ballads", S C Hall
"True Thomas the Rhymer, and other tales of the lowland Scots", Heather Scott
"Songs of the People: Selections from the Sam Henry Collection", John Moulden
"Chapbooks of the eighteenth century", John Ashton
"Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes" Lina Eckenstein
"Stories of the Scottish Border", William Platt
"Illustrated British Ballads", George Barnett Smith
"The Gest of Robyn Hode: A Critical and Textual Commentary", Robert B Waltz
from vol. 8:
"Robin Hood's Garland", author unknown
"The Beggars of England in Prose and Poetry", Albert Tschopp
"The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington", Anthony Munday
"Robin Hood: The Shaping of the Legend", Jeffrey Forgeng
"The Blood libel legend : a casebook in anti-Semitic folklore", Brian Bebbington
"Games and songs of American children", William Wells Newell
"The Book of Scottish Ballads", Alexander Whitelaw
"Life of Sir William Wallace, or, Scotland five hundred years ago", Thomas Murray
"The Scottish Musical Museum", James Johnson
"The history of Scotland; from 1436 to 1565", Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie
"The Complaynt of Scotland", author unknown
"Poetic Origins And The Ballad", Louise Pound
"Scottish Ballads and Songs, Historical and Traditionary", James Maidment
"Ancient poems, ballads and songs of the peasantry of England", Robert Bell
"Ancient Scottish Ballads", George Kinloch
"The Ballad Tree", Evelyn K Wells
"The Ballad Book", MacEdward Leach
"Death and Burial Lore in the English and Scottish Popular Ballads", Lowry Charles Wimberly
"Weep Not For Me", Deborah A. Symonds
"More Traditional Ballads of Virginia", Arthur Kyle Davis
"Tudor Songs and Ballads, Peter J. Seng (ed.)


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Broadside Ballads Online - ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Journal of the Folk Song Society - jstor.org
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Bandcamp - bandcamp.com
Child Ballad Database - childballadrecordings.com
The Yorkshire Garland Group - yorkshirefolksong.net
Better Know A Child Ballad - betterknowachildballad.wordpress.com
http://woods.tauny.org/ - W is for the Woods, Traditional Adirondack Music
https://dsl.ac.uk/ - Dictionaries of the Scots Language
tam-lin.org - thorough examination of the poetry and folklore of Tam Lin
contemplator.com - useful summaries of ballad research
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