...to be " learned only from their ballads. One of the most remark " able of the popular lays chaunted about the streets of " Norwich and Leeds, in the time of Charles II., may still be "read on the original broadside. It is the vehement and "bitter cry of labour against...

...particular are informative, for as Macaulay (discussing the England of 1685) wrote of working people, 'a great part of their history is to be learned only from their ballads'. Examples are the practice of foreign embassies in London in the sixteenth century of studying the printed...

...cultural functions. Thus he cites TB Macaulay's claim about working people in the England of 1685— that "a great part of their history is to be learned only from their ballads" (110-11). These texts present dozens of paths one might follow, including a variety of roads toward...

...cultural functions. Thus he cites TB Macaulay's claim about working people in the England of 1685 — that "a great part of their history is to be learned only from their ballads" (110-11). These texts present dozens of paths one might follow, including a variety of roads toward...

...was in rude rhyme that their love and hatred, their exultation and their distress found utterance. A great part of their history is to be learned only...ballads. One of the most remarkable of the popular lays chaunted about the streets of Norwich and Leeds in the time of. Charles the Second may still be read...

...love and hatred, their exultation and their distress, found utterance. A great part of their hiatory is to be learned only from their ballads. One of the most remarkable of the popular lays c'..anted about the streets of Norwich and Lecda in the time of Charles the Second may still be read...