Printers, Pedlars, Sailors, Nuns: Aspects of Street Literature

Edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud

ISBN: 978-1-9161424-2-8

The second volume of selected papers drawing on research gathered and presented at The Broadside Day.

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Book Contents
  • The Chesapeake and the Shannon: A Battle and its Broadsides; Martin Graebe
  • Sir John Franklin in Broadside and Oral Tradition; Michael King Mcdona
  • The Dying Words of Captain Robert Kidd: A Ballad for the Common Sailor; Lydia G. Fash
  • Punks, Pretty Novices, and Persecuted Virgins: Nuns in the Broadside Ballads from the Glorious Revolution to the Nunneries Inspection Bill; Catherine Ann Cullen
  • ‘Gone to Weave by Steam’: The Impact of Steam Power on the Textile Industry of North-West England through Broadside Balladry; Colin Bargery
  • Newcastle Chapbooks, Broadsides, and Garlands: A Study of the Collection of Woodblocks in McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections; Leo John De Freitas
  • Fairburn’s Editions: Songs, Songsters, and Handbooks for Plebeian Modernity: Gary Kelly
  • Children and Cheap Print in Europe: Towards a Transnational Account, 1700 – 1900; Elisa Marazzi
  • ‘Hawkie’ and His Audiences; David Atkinson
  • ‘Griddling’ Tramps (1879); by an Ex-Mendicity Officer; Introduction by Steve Roud