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Curiosities of Street Literature

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3.13 Cabman Flags, a Divorce Case, and Volunteer Review

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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Listen next episodes of Curiosities of Street Literature:
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 , 4.10 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 , 4.13 The Confessions and Executions of John Thurtell, C.T. White, and Amelia Roberts , 4.14 The Confession and Execution of William Corder, Bishop and Williams , 4.15 The Confession and Execution of James Greenacre and F.B. Courvoisier , 4.16 The Executions of Robert Blakesley and Verses on Daniel Good , 4.17 The Executions of James Bloomfield Rush and John Gleeson Wilson , 4.18 An Execution and a Tragedy: Six Children Murdered by their Mother , 4.19 Execution of William Cogan and George Gardner , 4.2 The Dying Speeches and Execution of Seven Conspirators , 4.20 Execution of William G. Youngman and the Wigan Murder , 4.21 The Execution of Priscilla Biggadike and Frederick Baker , 4.22 Executions at Durham, Confessions and Executions of Samuel Wright and James Clitheroe , 4.23 Two Murders on the Railway , 4.24 The Chase, Capture and Execution of Franz Muller , 4.25 Lamentation and Execution of James Longhurst and Miles Weatherhill , 4.26 Sentence of Constance Kent and Confession and Executions of Stephen Forward , 4.27 Execution of Pirates, Leigh and the Murder of a Child by a Schoolmistress , 4.28 Farewell to the World of Richard Bishop and Lamentations of J. Mapp and H. Lingley , 4.29 Executions of Alice Holt and the Murder of a Boy by his own Father , 4.3 The Execution of Luke Hutton , 4.30 Lamentations of J. R. Jeffery, John Fletcher, Ann Lawrence , 4.31 Executions of Michael Barrett, Allen, Gould, Larkin, and William Sheward , 4.32 Executions of John Devine, Martin Brown, and Alexander Mackay , 4.33 Murder of a Wife and Six Children and Executions of F. Hinson and J. Rutterford , 4.34 The Heroes of the Guillotine and Gallows , 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