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Curiosities of Street Literature

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This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about criminal conduct, love, the Royal Family, politics, as well as gallows' literature. Gallow's literature (confessions, verses etc. relating to individuals condemned to public execution) were often sold at the execution. As a collection these broadsides are a reminder of how important the printer was at this time -- it is surely no coincidence that the printers are printed at the end of every broadside, while the authors remain anonymous. - Summary by kathrinee

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Chapters

Chapter 1
Introduction
19:53
Chapter 2
1.1 Introductory remarks about cocks, catchpennies, street drolleries etc.
13:06
Chapter 3
1.2 Two Murders
06:26
Chapter 4
1.3 Trial, Rape, and Murder
11:18
Chapter 5
1.4 A Murder, a Murder of his Wife
11:27
Chapter 6
1.5 Punishment for Murder and a Man, Hanged, Now Alive
08:56
Chapter 7
1.6 Liverpool Tragedy, Massacre
08:45
Chapter 8
1.7 London Fire, Fatal Thunderstorm
12:27
Chapter 9
1.8 Scarborough Tragedy, a Wager
19:45
Chapter 10
1.9 Gossip, Secrets: Loveletters and The Unfaithful Husband Found Out, and a Hopeful Loveletter
11:58
Chapter 11
1.10 The Story of the Yorkshire Knight in Three Parts
15:32
Chapter 12
1.11 Faithful lovers, a Quarrel, and an Apparition
11:37
Chapter 13
1.12 A Catastrophe, and the Secrets of A Lord and Lady
10:52
Chapter 14
1.13 Two Elopements and a Funny Love Affair
13:15
Chapter 15
1.14 The Blasphemer, Warning to a Publican
14:08
Chapter 16
1.15 An Apparition and Particulars of Fortune Telling
12:44
Chapter 17
1.16 A Four-Day Trance and a Sleep-Walker
14:10
Chapter 18
1.17 Dialogue between Death and a Sinner, Railroad to Heaven and to Hell
15:45
Chapter 19
1.18 A Loveletter to a Sailor, A Maid and the Amorous Squire, The "Taking Off" of Prince Albert's Inexpressibles
15:06
Chapter 20
1.19 Battle of Pea Soup, and the Great Old Goat
10:06
Chapter 21
1.20 Adventures Looking for Mother Clifton, Selling a Wife
08:18
Chapter 22
1.21 The Perpetual Almanack, a Tounge-Twister Tale
10:38
Chapter 23
1.22 Female Teasing, Trademan's Hymn, The Register
11:00
Chapter 24
1.23 Rent Day, Cooking a Wife, and Various Other Things at an Auction
12:08
Chapter 25
1.24 The Last of the "Cocks," Suicide of an Artist and Letters Found on his Body
17:13
Chapter 26
2.1 Introduction to Political and Royal Broadsides, the King
11:22
Chapter 27
2.2 Three Accounts of Queen Victoria
12:07
Chapter 28
2.3 Queen Victoria's Marriage and An Assassination Attempt!
11:15
Chapter 29
2.4 Royal Childbirth and a Celebration of the Queen
08:13
Chapter 30
2.5 An Intruder Breaks into Queen Victoria's Bedroom and A Song about the Queen
11:52
Chapter 31
2.6 Three Accounts of the Birth of the Prince of Wales.
13:46
Chapter 32
2.7 A Visit to the Queen, a Royal Exchange, a Royal Marriage
11:04
Chapter 33
2.8 A Scene in the Election (farce), Speling Book for the Unions
17:59
Chapter 34
2.9 The Times and John Bull v. the Pope's Bull
09:25
Chapter 35
2.10 A Political Catechism and Famine Fast Day
10:17
Chapter 36
2.11 Three Political Texts
18:26
Chapter 37
2.12 Three Accounts of Political Affiliations, Reform, and Elections
17:09
Chapter 38
2.13 Political Thanksgiving and the Rights of Women
12:04
Chapter 39
2.14 A Reform Alphabet and Two Irish Questions
14:26
Chapter 40
2.15 A New Bill and a New Act of Parliament
16:41
Chapter 41
2.16 Street Laws, the Poor Law, Death of a Pauper
13:18
Chapter 42
2.17 Two Catechisms: the Soldier's and the Drunkard's, and Two Poems About the Drunkard
13:34
Chapter 43
2.18 Beer House Act and Two Poems: Brave Nelson and Battle of Waterloo
09:40
Chapter 44
2.19 Four Songs about the Price of Food, Politics, and Laws
10:14
Chapter 45
2.20 Five Songs about the Irish Liberator, Poverty, and the Elction
10:15
Chapter 46
2.21 Four Songs about England, the Election, and the Death of Wellington
10:54
Chapter 47
2.22 Six Songs about Battles, Florence NIghtingale, and International Affairs
14:15
Chapter 48
2.23 Fours Songs about Cobden, Naval Battle, Lament, and Reform
09:23
Chapter 49
2.24 Three Songs about Reform
10:01
Chapter 50
2.25 Three More Songs about Reform
09:07
Chapter 51
2.26 Two Songs about Fenians and Explosion
13:58
Chapter 52
2.27 Trading Bill and Election
07:23
Chapter 53
3.1 Introduction to Division 3 and The Female Husband
16:50
Chapter 54
3.2 Shakespeare's House, a Costume, Manchester and Preston Guild
14:11
Chapter 55
3.3 A Prophesy, Grace Darling, a Championship, and an Accident on the Ice
14:58
Chapter 56
3.4 Foreigners in England and Financial Hardships
13:52
Chapter 57
3.5 And Agricultural Show, a Lunacy Case, and an Old Marquis and his Wife
11:51
Chapter 58
3.6 Two Marriages and One Affair
08:05
Chapter 59
3.7 Strike of Tailors, The Parson, Night in a Workhouse
12:41
Chapter 60
3.8 The Ghost, The Wiched Woman, The Artful Girl
09:47
Chapter 61
3.9 The She-He Barman, Beauty and Match-Making, the Convent
11:45
Chapter 62
3.10 The Flitch of Bacon, Lord Mayor's Show, and a Boat Race
09:22
Chapter 63
3.11 Three discussions of Fashion: Petticoats, Crinolines and Chignons.
09:55
Chapter 64
3.12 The Velocipede, The Lord Mayor's Show, The Queen Opens a Viaduct
08:03
Chapter 65
3.13 Cabman Flags, a Divorce Case, and Volunteer Review
09:19
Chapter 66
3.14 A Parson Outwitted and the He-She Ladies
07:38
Chapter 67
4.1 Introdction to part 4 and The Life and Execution of Sir John Oldcastle
22:58
Chapter 68
4.2 The Dying Speeches and Execution of Seven Conspirators
18:39
Chapter 69
4.3 The Execution of Luke Hutton
08:21
Chapter 70
4.4 The Exectution of Conspirators and of Sir Walter Raleigh
13:34
Chapter 71
4.5 The Executions of Thomas Armstrong and William Nevison
08:28
Chapter 72
4.6 Trial and Executions of James Lowry, John Swan, and Elizabeth Jeffryes
10:42
Chapter 73
4.7 Execution of Six Unfortunate Malefactors and John Austin
14:43
Chapter 74
4.8 Trials and Executions of April 11, John Hogan, and Joseph Richards
11:20
Chapter 75
4.9 Old Bailey Intelligence and Execution of Eight Convicts
10:15
Chapter 76
4.10 Executions of Unforunate Sailors and Richard Parker
14:52
Chapter 77
4.11 The Executions of Mary Nott and James Nesbett
15:09
Chapter 78
4.12 Sentences of Prisoners of September 11, 1822 and the Death of Ann Williams
10:26
Chapter 79
4.13 The Confessions and Executions of John Thurtell, C.T. White, and Amelia Roberts
16:13
Chapter 80
4.14 The Confession and Execution of William Corder, Bishop and Williams
17:14
Chapter 81
4.15 The Confession and Execution of James Greenacre and F.B. Courvoisier
15:09
Chapter 82
4.16 The Executions of Robert Blakesley and Verses on Daniel Good
08:02
Chapter 83
4.17 The Executions of James Bloomfield Rush and John Gleeson Wilson
11:03
Chapter 84
4.18 An Execution and a Tragedy: Six Children Murdered by their Mother
10:17
Chapter 85
4.19 Execution of William Cogan and George Gardner
10:58
Chapter 86
4.20 Execution of William G. Youngman and the Wigan Murder
10:52
Chapter 87
4.21 The Execution of Priscilla Biggadike and Frederick Baker
11:42
Chapter 88
4.22 Executions at Durham, Confessions and Executions of Samuel Wright and James Clitheroe
17:52
Chapter 89
4.23 Two Murders on the Railway
08:51
Chapter 90
4.24 The Chase, Capture and Execution of Franz Muller
14:28
Chapter 91
4.25 Lamentation and Execution of James Longhurst and Miles Weatherhill
08:16
Chapter 92
4.26 Sentence of Constance Kent and Confession and Executions of Stephen Forward
10:44
Chapter 93
4.27 Execution of Pirates, Leigh and the Murder of a Child by a Schoolmistress
12:58
Chapter 94
4.28 Farewell to the World of Richard Bishop and Lamentations of J. Mapp and H. Lingley
10:03
Chapter 95
4.29 Executions of Alice Holt and the Murder of a Boy by his own Father
11:25
Chapter 96
4.30 Lamentations of J. R. Jeffery, John Fletcher, Ann Lawrence
10:09
Chapter 97
4.31 Executions of Michael Barrett, Allen, Gould, Larkin, and William Sheward
12:55
Chapter 98
4.32 Executions of John Devine, Martin Brown, and Alexander Mackay
16:04
Chapter 99
4.33 Murder of a Wife and Six Children and Executions of F. Hinson and J. Rutterford
13:55
Chapter 100
4.34 The Heroes of the Guillotine and Gallows
1:00:49

Curiosities of Street Literature

Chapters

Introduction

1.1 Introductory remarks about cocks, catchpennies, street drolleries etc.

1.2 Two Murders

1.3 Trial, Rape, and Murder

1.4 A Murder, a Murder of his Wife

1.5 Punishment for Murder and a Man, Hanged, Now Alive

1.6 Liverpool Tragedy, Massacre

1.7 London Fire, Fatal Thunderstorm

1.8 Scarborough Tragedy, a Wager

1.9 Gossip, Secrets: Loveletters and The Unfaithful Husband Found Out, and a Hopeful Loveletter

1.10 The Story of the Yorkshire Knight in Three Parts

1.11 Faithful lovers, a Quarrel, and an Apparition

1.12 A Catastrophe, and the Secrets of A Lord and Lady

1.13 Two Elopements and a Funny Love Affair

1.14 The Blasphemer, Warning to a Publican

1.15 An Apparition and Particulars of Fortune Telling

1.16 A Four-Day Trance and a Sleep-Walker

1.17 Dialogue between Death and a Sinner, Railroad to Heaven and to Hell

1.18 A Loveletter to a Sailor, A Maid and the Amorous Squire, The "Taking Off" of Prince Albert's Inexpressibles

1.19 Battle of Pea Soup, and the Great Old Goat

1.20 Adventures Looking for Mother Clifton, Selling a Wife

1.21 The Perpetual Almanack, a Tounge-Twister Tale

1.22 Female Teasing, Trademan's Hymn, The Register

1.23 Rent Day, Cooking a Wife, and Various Other Things at an Auction

1.24 The Last of the "Cocks," Suicide of an Artist and Letters Found on his Body

2.1 Introduction to Political and Royal Broadsides, the King

2.2 Three Accounts of Queen Victoria

2.3 Queen Victoria's Marriage and An Assassination Attempt!

2.4 Royal Childbirth and a Celebration of the Queen

2.5 An Intruder Breaks into Queen Victoria's Bedroom and A Song about the Queen

2.6 Three Accounts of the Birth of the Prince of Wales.

2.7 A Visit to the Queen, a Royal Exchange, a Royal Marriage

2.8 A Scene in the Election (farce), Speling Book for the Unions

2.9 The Times and John Bull v. the Pope's Bull

2.10 A Political Catechism and Famine Fast Day

2.11 Three Political Texts

2.12 Three Accounts of Political Affiliations, Reform, and Elections

2.13 Political Thanksgiving and the Rights of Women

2.14 A Reform Alphabet and Two Irish Questions

2.15 A New Bill and a New Act of Parliament

2.16 Street Laws, the Poor Law, Death of a Pauper

2.17 Two Catechisms: the Soldier's and the Drunkard's, and Two Poems About the Drunkard

2.18 Beer House Act and Two Poems: Brave Nelson and Battle of Waterloo

2.19 Four Songs about the Price of Food, Politics, and Laws

2.20 Five Songs about the Irish Liberator, Poverty, and the Elction

2.21 Four Songs about England, the Election, and the Death of Wellington

2.22 Six Songs about Battles, Florence NIghtingale, and International Affairs

2.23 Fours Songs about Cobden, Naval Battle, Lament, and Reform

2.24 Three Songs about Reform

2.25 Three More Songs about Reform

2.26 Two Songs about Fenians and Explosion

2.27 Trading Bill and Election

3.1 Introduction to Division 3 and The Female Husband

3.2 Shakespeare's House, a Costume, Manchester and Preston Guild

3.3 A Prophesy, Grace Darling, a Championship, and an Accident on the Ice

3.4 Foreigners in England and Financial Hardships

3.5 And Agricultural Show, a Lunacy Case, and an Old Marquis and his Wife

3.6 Two Marriages and One Affair

3.7 Strike of Tailors, The Parson, Night in a Workhouse

3.8 The Ghost, The Wiched Woman, The Artful Girl

3.9 The She-He Barman, Beauty and Match-Making, the Convent

3.10 The Flitch of Bacon, Lord Mayor's Show, and a Boat Race

3.11 Three discussions of Fashion: Petticoats, Crinolines and Chignons.

3.12 The Velocipede, The Lord Mayor's Show, The Queen Opens a Viaduct

3.13 Cabman Flags, a Divorce Case, and Volunteer Review

3.14 A Parson Outwitted and the He-She Ladies

4.1 Introdction to part 4 and The Life and Execution of Sir John Oldcastle

4.2 The Dying Speeches and Execution of Seven Conspirators

4.3 The Execution of Luke Hutton

4.4 The Exectution of Conspirators and of Sir Walter Raleigh

4.5 The Executions of Thomas Armstrong and William Nevison

4.6 Trial and Executions of James Lowry, John Swan, and Elizabeth Jeffryes

4.7 Execution of Six Unfortunate Malefactors and John Austin

4.8 Trials and Executions of April 11, John Hogan, and Joseph Richards

4.9 Old Bailey Intelligence and Execution of Eight Convicts

4.10 Executions of Unforunate Sailors and Richard Parker

4.11 The Executions of Mary Nott and James Nesbett

4.12 Sentences of Prisoners of September 11, 1822 and the Death of Ann Williams