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Color Images Now Available for the Huntington Ballads

Welcome to EBBA!

We make broadside ballads of the seventeenth century fully accessible as texts, art, music, and cultural records.

Latest News: Images of the Crawford Collection from the National Library of Scotland have arrived. Cataloging and transcribing are under way!


We welcome our new partners:
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (2012).
The University of Texas at Dallas (2010).

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded EBBA its fourth
Collections and Resources Grant (for 2012-2014),

in addition to a
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant
for a Ballad Illustration Archive.

The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies has also awarded EBBA the
BSECS Digital Eighteenth Century Prize (2009).