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Glasgow Broadside Ballads

Cheap print and popular song culture in nineteenth-century Scotland

Click on the thumbnails to see readable, enlarged images of broadside ballads


This page was created to provide a resource for the Department of History 'Sources and Methods' course and draws upon broadside ballads from the Murray collection (bound volumes Mu23-y.1-4). For further digitised broadside ballads from these volumes for this course, visit the Glasgow Broadside Ballads website, compiled by David Hopkin, Valentina Bold and David Morrison.

Mu23-y.1 page 16 Dark-eyed sailor
printed by R. McIntosh, 96 King St, Calton
Mu23-y.1 page 22 Glasgow Fair/The Week After
printed by D. Scott

  

Mu23-y.1 page 27 House of Airly
printed by james Lindsay, 9 King Street, Glasgow
Mu23-y.1 page 30 Lord Beigham
printed by James Lindsay, Jn., 9 King Street, Glasgow
Mu23-y.1 page 33 Waterloo
Mu23-y.1 page 35 Female Cabin Boy
printed by James Lindsay, Glasgow
Mu23-y.1 page 38 Mow the Meadows
Mu23-y.1 page 40 The Butcher
Mu23-y.1 page 48 Lady Franklin's Lament
Mu23-y.1 page 52 Undaunted Female
printed by James Lindsay, 9 King St, Glasgow
Mu23-y.1 page 59 Thornliebank Cobbler
Printed by James Lindsay, Glasgow
Mu23-y.1 page 60 Duncan Campbell
printed by James LIndsay, 9 King Street, Glasgow
Mu23-y.1 page 66 Paddy on the Canal
printed by James Lindsay, 9 King Street, Glasgow
Mu23-y.1 page 70 Haughes of Crumdel
Mu23-y.1 page 94 Undaunted Mary
Mu23-y.1 page 115 Bonny Bunch of Roses
printed by James Lindsay, 9 King Street, Glasgow
Mu23-y.1 page 137 Whisky in the Jar
Mu23-y.1 page 138 Barbara Allen
Mu23-y.2 page 14 John's Ale
Mu23-y.3 page 25 Young Jamie
printed by R. McIntosh, 96 King Street, Calton
Mu1-x.11/43 Elegy on Jamie Blue
by R. Husband

For more information on Glasgow University's extensive collection of broadsides, see the Special Collections broadsides collection page