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Ballads at the Bodleian
Heritage Open Day: Join us for a programme of musical performances, talks, craft activities and workshops based on the 17th century Broadside ballads from Bodleian Library, with the award-winning 100 Ballads project team. Join us for a programme of musical performances, talks, craft activities and workshops based on the 17th century Broadside Ballads from Bodleian Library, with the award-winning 100 Ballads project team. Broadside ballads were the pop music of the 17th century, selling in their thousands for a penny a piece in the market place. Their subjects were love, politics, battles, crime, folk tales, and sensational accounts of monsters and disasters. The ballads were sung to the hit tunes of the day, and many of them survived as folk songs into the 20th century.
Sunday 14 September
Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3BG
Sun 14 Sep:1100-1530; Free Entry.
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