This resource explores the ballads that the social reformer Francis Place recorded in his manuscript collection. These were ballads that he remembered being heard sung about the streets of London in the 1780s when he was young and that he attempted to remember around thirty years later in around 1819. The manuscripts bear witness to the vital street culture of the late eighteenth century that Place recognized was dying out.
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Editor: Ian Newman
Managing editor: Trish Bredar
Site design: Elicia Dennis
Acknowledgements
This website has been made possible with the kind permission of the British Library to use photography of images held in Add MS 27825. © The British Library Board. Thanks to the University of Notre Dame for providing funds to make this site possible.