Useful resources and recommended websites

Online Texts


• All texts of 'The English And Scottish Popular Ballads' by Francis James Child - As part of The Internet Sacred Text Archive

• Lists of Child's research materials - Correspondence and other archived papers from Harvard University's Houghton Library

Published Books


• The English and Scottish Popular Ballads - Paperback edition available from Loomis House Press

General Folk Music


• The Traditional Ballad Index - An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World

• Reinhard Zierke's Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music - Terrific site with lots of info on singers and musicians

• The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library - This is the library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society including The Roud Folk Song Index

• Rod Stradling's A Discography of Recorded Traditional Music - A 'Complete Traditional Music Discography'

• Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index - An Index to Recorded Resources

Blogs


• Quentin Kean's Folkcatalogue's Blog - Wonderful blog about Argo Records

• Dan Nedrud's Best of the Child Ballads - A blog written by me, the current manager of this site