Ballads
Images and text are of old English Ballads and tell the stories of women’s lives. This is part of a continuous project to research women’s social history through song.
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Black is the Color
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The Unquiet Grave
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Pretty Polly
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False Sir John
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We have fed you all for a thousand years an 1908 update to a poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1893.
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Ballad of Springhill by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl.
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False Sir John, a traditional English ballad in which a man courts a young woman only to lure her to a cliff where he plans to kill her.
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“We have fed you all for a thousand years” embroidered on shirt