There are few things as fine as a ballad, and the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford happens to have over 30,000 in its collection. Broadside ballads were popular songs, and they were generally sold for a penny (or less) in villages around Britain between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Many of these ballads have been digitized and placed on this website for use by music historians, social historians, and members of the general public. Visitors can click on "The Project" to learn a bit more about this initiative, and they can move on to listen to a few sound files, and also learn about the graphic images used on such pieces of music. By that point, users will be very excited to browse through the digital collection on their own. If they click on the "Browse/Search" area, they can perform a detailed search on the ballad titles or first lines. To get started, visitors might want to type in words like "lucky" or "horse".