Primary sources
The British Minstrel, A Collection of all the Ancient and Modern Songs, third edition (London: Vernon and Hood, [1820]).
The British Minstrel, and Musical and Literary Miscellany, (Glasgow: William Hamilton, 1849).
The National Minstrel, Consisting of Popular English, Irish, & Scottish Songs (London, [1850?]).
Sime, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Musical Miscellany: A Collection of the Most Approved Scotch, English, and Irish Songs, Set to Music (Edinburgh, 1792-93).
Secondary sources
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Cox Jensen, Oskar, Napoleon and British Song, 1797–1822 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
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Harker, Dave, Fakesong: The Manufacture of British ‘Folksong’ 1700 to the Present Day (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1985).
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Horgan, Kate, The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723-1795 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Kirk, John, Noble, Andrew, and Brown, Michael (eds), United Islands? The Languages of Resistance (London, 2012).
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Newman, Ian, ‘Moderation in the Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth and the Ballad Debates of the 1790s’, Studies in Romanticism 55 (2016): 185–210.
Pittock, Murray, Celtic Identity and the British Image (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999)
Skinner, Anthea, ‘Popular Songsters and the British Military: The Case of ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’, in Watt, Scott, and Spedding (eds.), pp. 205-22.
Vandrei, Martha, ‘“Britons, strike home”: Politics, Patriotism and Popular Song in British Culture, c.1695–1900’, Historical Research 87, no.238 (2014): 679–702. Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2281.12069.
Watt, Paul, Derek B. Scott, and Patrick Spedding (eds.), Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History of the Songster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
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Online resources
Broadside Ballads Online, ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), http://galenet.galegroup.com
HathiTrust Digital Library, https://www.hathitrust.org/
Internet Library of Early Journals: A Digital Library of 18th- and 19th-century Journals, http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej
Nineteenth-Century Song Club, https://c19songclub.com/.
Our Subversive Voice, https://oursubversivevoice.com/.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), ed. by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), http://www.oxforddnb.com
Oxford English Dictionary (OED), http://dictionary.oed.com/
Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/
Union First Line Index of English Verse: 13th-19th Century (bulk 1500-1800), https://firstlines.folger.edu/
Roud Folk Song Index, https://www.vwml.org/component/content/article/20-vwml-site/vwml-help-pages/256-roud-index-guide
Note: An e-Lib (Electronic Libraries Programme) by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. Three 18th century magazines: Gentleman’s Magazine, The Annual Register, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Three 19th century magazines: Notes and Queries; The Builder; Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine.