Funding
Conceived in May of 2003, EBBA has to date received two Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grants and five Collections and Resources grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, and Faculty Research Grants and Instructional Improvement Grants from the University of California, Santa Barbara. To read more about these grants and to view the grant proposals, see below. See also Initial Funding and Additional Funding for more information on how EBBA has been funded over the years.
Grants Received from the National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH 8: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant (2020-2022)
The NEH has granted EBBA an eigth award of $350,000 to digitize and archive c. 1000 ballads held by nearly 100 institutions across the globe, including libraries and collections in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. While these collections are small, the total represents, to the best of our research abilities, all remaining extant English broadside ballads from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The grant period is 2020-2022.
NEH 7: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant (2018-2020)
The NEH has granted EBBA a seventh award of $315,000 to digitize and archive c. 1300 ballads held by the British Library. These ballads are parts of 25 collections of varying sizes, but include ballads from the important Luttrell, Bagford, Huth, and the Thomason Tracts collections. The grant period is 2018-2020.
NEH 6: Collections and Resources Grant (2016-2018)
The NEH gave EBBA a sixth award of $260,000 to digitize and archive the c. 900 early modern broadside ballads in the collections of Yale University's Beinecke Library; Chetham Library, Manchester; Manchester Central Library; and the Society of Antiquaries. The grant period is 2016-2018.
NEH 5: Collections and Resources Grant (2014-2016)
The NEH gave EBBA a fifth award of $300,000 to digitize and archive the more than 1,150 early modern broadside ballads in the collections of Harvard University's Houghton Library. The grant period is 2014-2016.
NEH 4: Collections and Resources Grant (2012-2014)
The NEH gave EBBA a fourth award of $280,000 to begin digitizing and archiving the Crawford Ballad Collection at the National Library of Scotland over the two year period of 2012-2014.
NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant for Ballad Illustration Archive (2012-2013)
In 2012 the NEH also awarded EBBA a Digital Humanities Start-Up grant to develop a Ballad Illustration Archive (BIA) that will integrate computer vision software and human cataloguing in order to make the illustrations in broadside ballads more searchable and accessible for researchers and the general public alike.
NEH 3: Collections and Resources Grant (2010-2012)
The NEH followed its second grant to EBBA with a third award of $315,000 to begin digitizing and archiving the Euing Ballad Archive at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the Huntington Ballad Archive of pre-1701 ballads at the Huntington Library, San Marino over the two year period of 2010-2012.
NEH 2: Collections and Resources Grant (2008-2010)
The NEH gave EBBA a second award of $350,000 to begin digitizing and archiving the Roxburghe Ballad Archive over the two year period of 2008-2010.
NEH 1: Reference Materials Grant (2006-2008)
EBBA was honored to receive a first large grant of $325,000 from the NEH toward completion of the Pepys Ballad Archive over the years 2006-2008.