The Northumbrian Minstrel

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The Northumbrian Minstrel is a songbook, giving the lyrics of local, now historical songs, printed and published at Alnwick in 1811 by William Davison. The majority of the songs are written by songwriters from the North of the County, and therefore the content differs from most of the other popular Northumbrian chapbooks.

The Northumbrian Minstrel (full title - “The Northumbrian Minstrel; A Choice selection of Songs. Alnwick, Printed by W. Davison, 1811) is a songbook of Geordie folk songs consisting of almost 60 pages and 45 song lyric, published in 1811.

It is, a collection of songs from North Northumberland and Southern Scotland which would have been popular, or topical, at the date of publication. There is nothing in the way of biographies of the authors, the histories of the events, or tunes.

The front cover of the book was as thus :-

THE
Northumbrian
MINSTREL
A
CHOICE SELECTION
OF
SONGS

_____
ALNWICK
PRINTED BY W. DAVISON

1811

Are as below :-

• Geordie dialect words

• Full text of The Northumbrian Minstrel from the Hathi Trust
• Northumbrian Minstrelsy