There are many excellent web-sites offering additional information on traditional folk music, ballads, and the collectors. These links will take you off-site.

  • Child Ballads website (the Comtemplator)
  • A Concordance to the Child Ballads
  • Scotland's Child Ballads site
  • Child's Legacy Enlarged: Oral Literary Studies at Harvard Since 1856 (David E. Bynum)
  • Guide to the Papers of Francis James Child (Houghton Library, Harvard College)
  • Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England,
    Edited by Robert Bell
  • The Anglo-Scottish Ballad in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
  • Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
  • Broadside Ballad Index
  • Sixteenth Century Ballads
  • The Traditional Ballad Index
  • "Tam Lin"
  • The Robin Hood Project, The University of Rochester
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    Societies
  • Country Dance and Song Society - USA
  • English Folk Dance and Song Society - UK
  • Folk Music Society of Ireland - Ireland

  • Libraries
  • American Folklife Center-Library of Congress-US
  • The British Library-UK
  • Irish Traditional Music Archive - Ireland

  • Universities
  • National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, Sheffield University-UK
  • School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh-UK

  • Magazines
  • Sing Out!-US
  • The Living Tradition-UK
  • Musical Traditions-UK
    General Indexes and Lyric Databases
  • The Digital Tradition-US
  • The Traditional Song Forum-UK
  • Folk Music Index to Recorded Sources-US