Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825–96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857–9, before he embarked ...

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 ...

This social, spiritual and superstitious ritual has become a recognizable part of the Highland Gaelic culture. Waulking songs have a distinct style – they are sung a capella in Gaelic and take ...

Isla St Clair (born 2 May 1952), born Isabella Margaret Dyce, is a Scottish singer ... She has recorded many of the Child Ballads. In 2003 she released My Generation, a collection of children's ...