Curiosities of Street Literature
Various Authors
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.
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Run Time 21 Hours 22 Minutes in 18 Audio CDs
Section ---- Chapter ---- Run Time
1 000 - Introduction - 19:52
2 001 - 1.1 Introductory remarks about cocks, catchpennies, street drolleries etc. - 13:06
3 002 - 1.2 Two Murders - 06:26
4 003 - 1.3 Trial, Rape, and Murder - 11:18
5 004 - 1.4 A Murder, a Murder of his Wife - 11:27
6 005 - 1.5 Punishment for Murder and a Man, Hanged, Now Alive - 08:56
7 006 - 1.6 Liverpool Tragedy, Massacre - 08:45
8 007 - 1.7 London Fire, Fatal Thunderstorm - 12:27
9 008 - 1.8 Scarborough Tragedy, a Wager - 19:45
10 009 - 1.9 Gossip, Secrets: Loveletters and The Unfaithful Husband Found Out, and a Hopeful... - 11:58
11 010 - 1.10 The Story of the Yorkshire Knight in Three Parts - 15:32
12 011 - 1.11 Faithful lovers, a Quarrel, and an Apparition - 11:37
13 012 - 1.12 A Catastrophe, and the Secrets of A Lord and Lady - 10:52
14 013 - 1.13 Two Elopements and a Funny Love Affair - 13:15
15 014 - 1.14 The Blasphemer, Warning to a Publican - 14:08
16 015 - 1.15 An Apparition and Particulars of Fortune Telling - 12:44
17 016 - 1.16 A Four-Day Trance and a Sleep-Walker - 14:10
18 017 - 1.17 Dialogue between Death and a Sinner, Railroad to Heaven and to Hell - 15:45
19 018 - 1.18 A Loveletter to a Sailor, A Maid and the Amorous Squire, The - 15:06
20 019 - 1.19 Battle of Pea Soup, and the Great Old Goat - 10:06
21 020 - 1.20 Adventures Looking for Mother Clifton, Selling a Wife - 08:18
22 021 - 1.21 The Perpetual Almanack, a Tounge-Twister Tale - 10:38
23 022 - 1.22 Female Teasing, Trademan's Hymn, The Register - 11:00
24 023 - 1.23 Rent Day, Cooking a Wife, and Various Other Things at an Auction - 12:08
25 024 - 1.24 The Last of the - 17:13
26 025 - 2.1 Introduction to Political and Royal Broadsides, the King - 11:22
27 026 - 2.2 Three Accounts of Queen Victoria - 12:07
28 027 - 2.3 Queen Victoria's Marriage and An Assassination Attempt! - 11:15
29 028 - 2.4 Royal Childbirth and a Celebration of the Queen - 08:13
30 029 - 2.5 An Intruder Breaks into Queen Victoria's Bedroom and A Song about the Queen - 11:52
31 030 - 2.6 Three Accounts of the Birth of the Prince of Wales. - 13:46
32 031 - 2.7 A Visit to the Queen, a Royal Exchange, a Royal Marriage - 11:04
33 032 - 2.8 A Scene in the Election (farce), Speling Book for the Unions - 17:59
34 033 - 2.9 The Times and John Bull v. the Pope's Bull - 09:25
35 034 - 2.10 A Political Catechism and Famine Fast Day - 10:17
36 035 - 2.11 Three Political Texts - 18:25
37 036 - 2.12 Three Accounts of Political Affiliations, Reform, and Elections - 17:09
38 037 - 2.13 Political Thanksgiving and the Rights of Women - 12:04
39 038 - 2.14 A Reform Alphabet and Two Irish Questions - 14:26
40 039 - 2.15 A New Bill and a New Act of Parliament - 16:41
41 040 - 2.16 Street Laws, the Poor Law, Death of a Pauper - 13:18
42 041 - 2.17 Two Catechisms: the Soldier's and the Drunkard's, and Two Poems About the Drunkard - 13:34
43 042 - 2.18 Beer House Act and Two Poems: Brave Nelson and Battle of Waterloo - 09:40
44 043 - 2.19 Four Songs about the Price of Food, Politics, and Laws - 10:14
45 044 - 2.20 Five Songs about the Irish Liberator, Poverty, and the Elction - 10:15
46 045 - 2.21 Four Songs about England, the Election, and the Death of Wellington - 10:54
47 046 - 2.22 Six Songs about Battles, Florence NIghtingale, and International Affairs - 14:15
48 047 - 2.23 Fours Songs about Cobden, Naval Battle, Lament, and Reform - 09:23
49 048 - 2.24 Three Songs about Reform - 10:01
50 049 - 2.25 Three More Songs about Reform - 09:07
51 050 - 2.26 Two Songs about Fenians and Explosion - 13:58
52 051 - 2.27 Trading Bill and Election - 07:23
53 052 - 3.1 Introduction to Division 3 and The Female Husband - 16:50
54 053 - 3.2 Shakespeare's House, a Costume, Manchester and Preston Guild - 14:11
55 054 - 3.3 A Prophesy, Grace Darling, a Championship, and an Accident on the Ice - 14:57
56 055 - 3.4 Foreigners in England and Financial Hardships - 13:52
57 056 - 3.5 And Agricultural Show, a Lunacy Case, and an Old Marquis and his Wife - 11:51
58 057 - 3.6 Two Marriages and One Affair - 08:05
59 058 - 3.7 Strike of Tailors, The Parson, Night in a Workhouse - 12:41
60 059 - 3.8 The Ghost, The Wiched Woman, The Artful Girl - 09:47
61 060 - 3.9 The She-He Barman, Beauty and Match-Making, the Convent - 11:45
62 061 - 3.10 The Flitch of Bacon, Lord Mayor's Show, and a Boat Race - 09:22
63 062 - 3.11 Three discussions of Fashion: Petticoats, Crinolines and Chignons. - 09:55
64 063 - 3.12 The Velocipede, The Lord Mayor's Show, The Queen Opens a Viaduct - 08:03
65 064 - 3.13 Cabman Flags, a Divorce Case, and Volunteer Review - 09:19
66 065 - 3.14 A Parson Outwitted and the He-She Ladies - 07:38
67 066 - 4.1 Introdction to part 4 and The Life and Execution of Sir John Oldcastle - 22:58
68 067 - 4.2 The Dying Speeches and Execution of Seven Conspirators - 18:39
69 068 - 4.3 The Execution of Luke Hutton - 08:21
70 069 - 4.4 The Exectution of Conspirators and of Sir Walter Raleigh - 13:34
71 070 - 4.5 The Executions of Thomas Armstrong and William Nevison - 08:28
72 071 - 4.6 Trial and Executions of James Lowry, John Swan, and Elizabeth Jeffryes - 10:42
73 072 - 4.7 Execution of Six Unfortunate Malefactors and John Austin - 14:43
74 073 - 4.8 Trials and Executions of April 11, John Hogan, and Joseph Richards - 11:20
75 074 - 4.9 Old Bailey Intelligence and Execution of Eight Convicts - 10:15
76 075 - 4.10 Executions of Unforunate Sailors and Richard Parker - 14:52
77 076 - 4.11 The Executions of Mary Nott and James Nesbett - 15:09
78 077 - 4.12 Sentences of Prisoners of September 11, 1822 and the Death of Ann Williams - 10:26
79 078 - 4.13 The Confessions and Executions of John Thurtell, C.T. White, and Amelia Roberts - 16:13
80 079 - 4.14 The Confession and Execution of William Corder, Bishop and Williams - 17:14
81 080 - 4.15 The Confession and Execution of James Greenacre and F.B. Courvoisier - 15:09
82 081 - 4.16 The Executions of Robert Blakesley and Verses on Daniel Good - 08:02
83 082 - 4.17 The Executions of James Bloomfield Rush and John Gleeson Wilson - 11:03
84 083 - 4.18 An Execution and a Tragedy: Six Children Murdered by their Mother - 10:17
85 084 - 4.19 Execution of William Cogan and George Gardner - 10:58
86 085 - 4.20 Execution of William G. Youngman and the Wigan Murder - 10:52
87 086 - 4.21 The Execution of Priscilla Biggadike and Frederick Baker - 11:42
88 087 - 4.22 Executions at Durham, Confessions and Executions of Samuel Wright and James Clitheroe - 17:52
89 088 - 4.23 Two Murders on the Railway - 08:51
90 089 - 4.24 The Chase, Capture and Execution of Franz Muller - 14:28
91 090 - 4.25 Lamentation and Execution of James Longhurst and Miles Weatherhill - 08:16
92 091 - 4.26 Sentence of Constance Kent and Confession and Executions of Stephen Forward - 10:44
93 092 - 4.27 Execution of Pirates, Leigh and the Murder of a Child by a Schoolmistress - 12:58
94 093 - 4.28 Farewell to the World of Richard Bishop and Lamentations of J. Mapp and H. Lingley - 10:03
95 094 - 4.29 Executions of Alice Holt and the Murder of a Boy by his own Father - 11:25
96 095 - 4.30 Lamentations of J. R. Jeffery, John Fletcher, Ann Lawrence - 10:09
97 096 - 4.31 Executions of Michael Barrett, Allen, Gould, Larkin, and William Sheward - 12:55
98 097 - 4.32 Executions of John Devine, Martin Brown, and Alexander Mackay - 16:04
99 098 - 4.33 Murder of a Wife and Six Children and Executions of F. Hinson and J. Rutterford - 13:55
100 099 - 4.34 The Heroes of the Guillotine and Gallows - 01:00:49