IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

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“I’m the Scottish expert on hell!” exclaimed folk-ballad academic expert Prudencia Hart in her thick Edinburgh accent. “And whatever it is, it is not a bed and breakfast!” It turns out that expertise ...

1. Translated from the Originals, by R. C. ALEXANDER PRIOR, M. D. London: Williams & Norgate. Leipzig: R. Hartmann. 1860. 3 vols. pp. lx., 400, 468, 500. 2. By ROBERT ...

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Aria Entertainment & KT Producing have today announced the London premiere of major new folk musical Ballad Lines, which will run for eight weeks at Southwark Playhouse Elephant from 23 January - 21 ...

The music from major new Scottish folk musical Ballad Lines will be released as an ambitious 18 track concept album on 12th September, bringing together leading female folk and theatre artists from ...