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Bodleian Library: Broadside Ballads Project - Some images of ballads from the early 1700s.
Sixteenth Century Ballads - Transcriptions, music and bibliography.
The Oxford Book of Ballads - 176 selections by the anthologist Arthur Quiller-Couch. Indexed by title and first line.
The Traditional Ballad Index - Annotated bibliography of folk songs.
Legends - Shake Loose the Border - Brief overview, with information on online and offline material.

The Bagford Ballads - The Bagford Ballads were English ballads collected by John Bagford (1651 - 1716) for Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford. Bagford was originally a cobbler, but he became a book collector in his later years, and he assembled this set of ballads from the materials he had been collecting.
Child Ballads - The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late 19th century. The collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898.
List of the Child Ballads - This list of the Child Ballads contains all the 305 ballad types in Francis Child's collection Popular English and Scottish Ballads, collected in the 19th century, colloquially known as the Child Ballads; see this for further general information. In order to get more information on a certain ballad type, follow the corresponding link infra.
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was written by William Wordsworth in 1800 and enlarged with the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads in 1802.
Stories from the English and Scottish Ballads - Stories from the English and Scottish Ballads is a 1968 anthology of 15 ballads that have been collected and retold in prose or fairy tale form by Ruth Manning-Sanders, for easier reading. It is one in a long series of anthologies by Manning-Sanders.