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