I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

In this video women from the Western Isles of Scotland perform a Waulking Song while washing clothes.

Burns Night is the celebration of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), the lyricist behind some of the nation's most treasured ballads including 'Auld Lang Syne', 'To a Mouse' and 'A Man ...