How to Use the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA)
This guide to using EBBA was one of several guides written for students by students
working under the supervision of Dr. Kristen A. Bennett. These
how toresources for conducting digital, archival, and worldwide library research across topics in early modern English literature were created by undergraduate students in the Spring 2014, ENG 304 class,
Subversion and Scandal in Early Modern Print Culturewith the help of the Faculty Initiatives in Technology grant at Stonehill College. Dr. Bennett and her students kindly gave MoEML permission to republish their guides. Click here for guides to Early English Books Online, the Folger Digital Image Collection, Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Shakespeare Editions. To see the guides in their original context, along with other materials, visit the English 304 blog.
¶About EBBA
The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) was created in 2003 by director Patricia Fumerton. She was interested in developing
a digital tool that would make broadside ballads1 more accessible to researchers. EBBA provides access to approximately ten thousand
ballads, most of which were published during the seventeenth-century. Although EBBA
prioritizes the black-letter ornamental broadside ballad, EBBA also archives hundreds
of other texts from the sixteenth-century and early eighteenth-century as well. EBBA
delivers high-quality ballad sheet facsimiles and transcriptions.2
![Dr. Patricia Fumerton. Image Courtesy of UCSB. Dr. Patricia Fumerton. Image Courtesy of UCSB.](graphics/ebba_fumerton.jpg)
Notes
- In the first half of the seventeenth century, the term broadside ballad referred to a popular poem, often set to the tune of a melody, that was printed on
a single, large sheet of paper with multiple illustrations and an interesting title.
To learn more about broadside ballads, see the
features
tab in EBBA. ()↑ - A facsimile transcription is something that maintains the original decoration of the text while still transforming the ballad into readable modern day language. ()↑
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Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.
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The Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody.
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Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
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Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.
Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed. Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print. -
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Smock Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage.
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Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London.
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Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?.
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Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed. Web.
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