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Curiosities of Street Literature

Various

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

Genre(s): Fictional Biographies & Memoirs, Satire, Biography & Autobiography

Language: English

Keyword(s): satire (290), politics (205), royal family (1), gallows literature (1), broadsides (1)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Introduction	Ed Humpal	00:19:53
Play 01	1.1 Introductory remarks about cocks, catchpennies, street drolleries etc.	Beth Thomas (1974-2020)	00:13:06
Play 02	1.2 Two Murders	Beth Thomas (1974-2020)	00:06:26
Play 03	1.3 Trial, Rape, and Murder	Scott Bennett	00:11:18
Play 04	1.4 A Murder, a Murder of his Wife	Scott Bennett	00:11:27
Play 05	1.5 Punishment for Murder and a Man, Hanged, Now Alive	Greg Giordano	00:08:56
Play 06	1.6 Liverpool Tragedy, Massacre	GregShinn	00:08:45
Play 07	1.7 London Fire, Fatal Thunderstorm	Greg Giordano	00:12:27
Play 08	1.8 Scarborough Tragedy, a Wager	Michael	00:19:45
Play 09	1.9 Gossip, Secrets: Loveletters and The Unfaithful Husband Found Out, and a Hopeful Loveletter	Lynne T	00:11:58
Play 10	1.10 The Story of the Yorkshire Knight in Three Parts	Lynne T	00:15:32
Play 11	1.11 Faithful lovers, a Quarrel, and an Apparition	Toeknee	00:11:37
Play 12	1.12 A Catastrophe, and the Secrets of A Lord and Lady	Greg Giordano	00:10:52
Play 13	1.13 Two Elopements and a Funny Love Affair	Ed Humpal	00:13:15
Play 14	1.14 The Blasphemer, Warning to a Publican	Scott Bennett	00:14:08
Play 15	1.15 An Apparition and Particulars of Fortune Telling	Michael	00:12:44
Play 16	1.16 A Four-Day Trance and a Sleep-Walker	Greg Giordano	00:14:10
Play 17	1.17 Dialogue between Death and a Sinner, Railroad to Heaven and to Hell	Michael	00:15:45
Play 18	1.18 A Loveletter to a Sailor, A Maid and the Amorous Squire, The "Taking Off" of Prince Albert's Inexpressibles	Greg Giordano	00:15:06
Play 19	1.19 Battle of Pea Soup, and the Great Old Goat	Greg Giordano	00:10:06
Play 20	1.20 Adventures Looking for Mother Clifton, Selling a Wife	GregShinn	00:08:18
Play 21	1.21 The Perpetual Almanack, a Tounge-Twister Tale	Ed Humpal	00:10:38
Play 22	1.22 Female Teasing, Trademan's Hymn, The Register	Greg Giordano	00:11:00
Play 23	1.23 Rent Day, Cooking a Wife, and Various Other Things at an Auction	Michael	00:12:08
Play 24	1.24 The Last of the "Cocks," Suicide of an Artist and Letters Found on his Body	Michael	00:17:13
Play 25	2.1 Introduction to Political and Royal Broadsides, the King	Greg Giordano	00:11:22
Play 26	2.2 Three Accounts of Queen Victoria	Toeknee	00:12:07
Play 27	2.3 Queen Victoria's Marriage and An Assassination Attempt!	Greg Giordano	00:11:15
Play 28	2.4 Royal Childbirth and a Celebration of the Queen	Kathleen Moore	00:08:13
Play 29	2.5 An Intruder Breaks into Queen Victoria's Bedroom and A Song about the Queen	Ryan Cowell	00:11:52
Play 30	2.6 Three Accounts of the Birth of the Prince of Wales.	Roohi	00:13:46
Play 31	2.7 A Visit to the Queen, a Royal Exchange, a Royal Marriage	Roohi	00:11:04
Play 32	2.8 A Scene in the Election (farce), Speling Book for the Unions	Ed Humpal	00:17:59
Play 33	2.9 The Times and John Bull v. the Pope's Bull	Jeff Moon	00:09:25
Play 34	2.10 A Political Catechism and Famine Fast Day	Roohi	00:10:17
Play 35	2.11 Three Political Texts	ashleighjane	00:18:26
Play 36	2.12 Three Accounts of Political Affiliations, Reform, and Elections	Ulrike Denis	00:17:09
Play 37	2.13 Political Thanksgiving and the Rights of Women	Greg Giordano	00:12:04
Play 38	2.14 A Reform Alphabet and Two Irish Questions	Jeff Moon	00:14:26
Play 39	2.15 A New Bill and a New Act of Parliament	Melvin Lee	00:16:41
Play 40	2.16 Street Laws, the Poor Law, Death of a Pauper	Toeknee	00:13:18
Play 41	2.17 Two Catechisms: the Soldier's and the Drunkard's, and Two Poems About the Drunkard	Toeknee	00:13:34
Play 42	2.18 Beer House Act and Two Poems: Brave Nelson and Battle of Waterloo	Martin Campbell	00:09:40
Play 43	2.19 Four Songs about the Price of Food, Politics, and Laws	Martin Campbell	00:10:14
Play 44	2.20 Five Songs about the Irish Liberator, Poverty, and the Elction	Roohi	00:10:15
Play 45	2.21 Four Songs about England, the Election, and the Death of Wellington	Roohi	00:10:54
Play 46	2.22 Six Songs about Battles, Florence NIghtingale, and International Affairs	Roohi	00:14:15
Play 47	2.23 Fours Songs about Cobden, Naval Battle, Lament, and Reform	Roohi	00:09:23
Play 48	2.24 Three Songs about Reform	Greg Giordano	00:10:01
Play 49	2.25 Three More Songs about Reform	Roohi	00:09:07
Play 50	2.26 Two Songs about Fenians and Explosion	Roohi	00:13:58
Play 51	2.27 Trading Bill and Election	Joseph Tabler	00:07:23
Play 52	3.1 Introduction to Division 3 and The Female Husband	Oxenhandler	00:16:50
Play 53	3.2 Shakespeare's House, a Costume, Manchester and Preston Guild	Roohi	00:14:11
Play 54	3.3 A Prophesy, Grace Darling, a Championship, and an Accident on the Ice	Greg Giordano	00:14:58
Play 55	3.4 Foreigners in England and Financial Hardships	Greg Giordano	00:13:52
Play 56	3.5 And Agricultural Show, a Lunacy Case, and an Old Marquis and his Wife	Greg Giordano	00:11:51
Play 57	3.6 Two Marriages and One Affair	Kalynda	00:08:05
Play 58	3.7 Strike of Tailors, The Parson, Night in a Workhouse	Greg Giordano	00:12:41
Play 59	3.8 The Ghost, The Wiched Woman, The Artful Girl	Michael	00:09:47
Play 60	3.9 The She-He Barman, Beauty and Match-Making, the Convent	Michael	00:11:45
Play 61	3.10 The Flitch of Bacon, Lord Mayor's Show, and a Boat Race	Roohi	00:09:22
Play 62	3.11 Three discussions of Fashion: Petticoats, Crinolines and Chignons.	Diana Schmidt	00:09:55
Play 63	3.12 The Velocipede, The Lord Mayor's Show, The Queen Opens a Viaduct	Vera Sticker	00:08:03
Play 64	3.13 Cabman Flags, a Divorce Case, and Volunteer Review	Toeknee	00:09:19
Play 65	3.14 A Parson Outwitted and the He-She Ladies	Ulrike Denis	00:07:38
Play 66	4.1 Introdction to part 4 and The Life and Execution of Sir John Oldcastle	Melvin Lee	00:22:58
Play 67	4.2 The Dying Speeches and Execution of Seven Conspirators	Melvin Lee	00:18:39
Play 68	4.3 The Execution of Luke Hutton	TriciaG	00:08:21
Play 69	4.4 The Exectution of Conspirators and of Sir Walter Raleigh	Melvin Lee	00:13:34
Play 70	4.5 The Executions of Thomas Armstrong and William Nevison	TriciaG	00:08:28
Play 71	4.6 Trial and Executions of James Lowry, John Swan, and Elizabeth Jeffryes	Melvin Lee	00:10:42
Play 72	4.7 Execution of Six Unfortunate Malefactors and John Austin	Melvin Lee	00:14:43
Play 73	4.8 Trials and Executions of April 11, John Hogan, and Joseph Richards	TriciaG	00:11:20
Play 74	4.9 Old Bailey Intelligence and Execution of Eight Convicts	TriciaG	00:10:15
Play 75	4.10 Executions of Unforunate Sailors and Richard Parker	TriciaG	00:14:52
Play 76	4.11 The Executions of Mary Nott and James Nesbett	TriciaG	00:15:09
Play 77	4.12 Sentences of Prisoners of September 11, 1822 and the Death of Ann Williams	TriciaG	00:10:26
Play 78	4.13 The Confessions and Executions of John Thurtell, C.T. White, and Amelia Roberts	Melvin Lee	00:16:13
Play 79	4.14 The Confession and Execution of William Corder, Bishop and Williams	Melvin Lee	00:17:14
Play 80	4.15 The Confession and Execution of James Greenacre and F.B. Courvoisier	Melvin Lee	00:15:09
Play 81	4.16 The Executions of Robert Blakesley and Verses on Daniel Good	TriciaG	00:08:02
Play 82	4.17 The Executions of James Bloomfield Rush and John Gleeson Wilson	TriciaG	00:11:03
Play 83	4.18 An Execution and a Tragedy: Six Children Murdered by their Mother	Oxenhandler	00:10:17
Play 84	4.19 Execution of William Cogan and George Gardner	Jason in Panama	00:10:58
Play 85	4.20 Execution of William G. Youngman and the Wigan Murder	Jason in Panama	00:10:52
Play 86	4.21 The Execution of Priscilla Biggadike and Frederick Baker	mariemdover	00:11:42
Play 87	4.22 Executions at Durham, Confessions and Executions of Samuel Wright and James Clitheroe	TriciaG	00:17:52
Play 88	4.23 Two Murders on the Railway	Guest	00:08:51
Play 89	4.24 The Chase, Capture and Execution of Franz Muller	Roohi	00:14:28
Play 90	4.25 Lamentation and Execution of James Longhurst and Miles Weatherhill	Roohi	00:08:16
Play 91	4.26 Sentence of Constance Kent and Confession and Executions of Stephen Forward	Roohi	00:10:44
Play 92	4.27 Execution of Pirates, Leigh and the Murder of a Child by a Schoolmistress	Roohi	00:12:58
Play 93	4.28 Farewell to the World of Richard Bishop and Lamentations of J. Mapp and H. Lingley	Roohi	00:10:03
Play 94	4.29 Executions of Alice Holt and the Murder of a Boy by his own Father	msloganjr	00:11:25
Play 95	4.30 Lamentations of J. R. Jeffery, John Fletcher, Ann Lawrence	TriciaG	00:10:09
Play 96	4.31 Executions of Michael Barrett, Allen, Gould, Larkin, and William Sheward	TriciaG	00:12:55
Play 97	4.32 Executions of John Devine, Martin Brown, and Alexander Mackay	TriciaG	00:16:04
Play 98	4.33 Murder of a Wife and Six Children and Executions of F. Hinson and J. Rutterford	OCTL7	00:13:55
Play 99	4.34 The Heroes of the Guillotine and Gallows	Sandra Knight	01:00:49

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