David Atkinson is the author of The English Traditional Ballad, The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts, and The Ballad and its Pasts: Literary Histories and the Play of Memory. He is co-editor of Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation and Ethnic Mobility in Ballads, and (with Steve Roud) Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America and Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century.Steve Roud is the compiler of the Folk Song Index, Broadside Index, and a number of other ongoing online resources. His book publications include Folk Song in England, The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland, The English Year, London Lore, and The Lore of the Playground. He is co-editor of The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs and A Dictionary of English Folklore, and (with David Atkinson) Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America and Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century.

"This collection of essays, brought together by two well-established scholars of song and popular culture, offers a wide-ranging survey of the diverse and dynamic histories of cheap printed materials across Europe. […] The book is well produced and edited to a high standard. The sharpest interventions are those able to contextualize their work in a wider academic field, but all of these chapters are contributions to a larger, more complex, and developing picture."Mary-Ann ConstantineUniversity of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, Folk Music Journal, 2021

David Atkinson is the author of The English Traditional Ballad, The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts, and The Ballad and its Pasts: Literary Histories and the Play of Memory. He is co-editor of Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation and Ethnic Mobility in Ballads, and (with Steve Roud) Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America and Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century.Steve Roud is the compiler of the Folk Song Index, Broadside Index, and a number of other ongoing online resources. His book publications include Folk Song in England, The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland, The English Year, London Lore, and The Lore of the Playground. He is co-editor of The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs and A Dictionary of English Folklore, and (with David Atkinson) Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America and Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century.

"This collection of essays, brought together by two well-established scholars of song and popular culture, offers a wide-ranging survey of the diverse and dynamic histories of cheap printed materials across Europe. […] The book is well produced and edited to a high standard. The sharpest interventions are those able to contextualize their work in a wider academic field, but all of these chapters are contributions to a larger, more complex, and developing picture."Mary-Ann ConstantineUniversity of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, Folk Music Journal, 2021

David Atkinson is the author of The English Traditional Ballad, The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts, and The Ballad and its Pasts: Literary Histories and the Play of Memory. He is co-editor of Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation and Ethnic Mobility in Ballads, and (with Steve Roud) Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America and Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century.Steve Roud is the compiler of the Folk Song Index, Broadside Index, and a number of other ongoing online resources. His book publications include Folk Song in England, The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland, The English Year, London Lore, and The Lore of the Playground. He is co-editor of The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs and A Dictionary of English Folklore, and (with David Atkinson) Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America and Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century.

"This collection of essays, brought together by two well-established scholars of song and popular culture, offers a wide-ranging survey of the diverse and dynamic histories of cheap printed materials across Europe. […] The book is well produced and edited to a high standard. The sharpest interventions are those able to contextualize their work in a wider academic field, but all of these chapters are contributions to a larger, more complex, and developing picture."Mary-Ann ConstantineUniversity of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, Folk Music Journal, 2021