This selection includes more than eighty of the finest ballads, together with an introduction, notes and glosses. The versions come from the last three centurie

Marsden sets the 16 major historical ballads against the documentary records of the events that inspired them and the social history of the border between Engla

A small format gift book which is a reproduction of the popular book ‘101 Scottish Songs’ published by Collins in 1962. Popularized as ‘the wee red songbo