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Curiosities of Street Literature

Curiosities of Street Literature

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This is a collection of broadsides, short popular publications, from London. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about criminal conduct, the Royal Family, politics, as well as gallows' literature. Broadsides are a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. - Summary by kathrinee

Capitoli21h 22min

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Introduction

19:53

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1.1 Introductory remarks about cocks, catchpennies, street drolleries etc

13:06

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03

1.2 Two Murders

06:26

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04

1.3 Trial, Rape, and Murder

11:18

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1.4 A Murder, a Murder of his Wife

11:27

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06

1.5 Punishment for Murder and a Man, Hanged, Now Alive

08:56

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07

1.6 Liverpool Tragedy, Massacre

08:45

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1.7 London Fire, Fatal Thunderstorm

12:27

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09

1.8 Scarborough Tragedy, a Wager

19:45

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10

1.9 Gossip, Secrets: Loveletters and The Unfaithful Husband Found Out, and a Hopeful Loveletter

11:58

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11

1.10 The Story of the Yorkshire Knight in Three Parts

15:32

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12

1.11 Faithful lovers, a Quarrel, and an Apparition

11:37

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1.12 A Catastrophe, and the Secrets of A Lord and Lady

10:52

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1.13 Two Elopements and a Funny Love Affair

13:15

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1.14 The Blasphemer, Warning to a Publican

14:08

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1.15 An Apparition and Particulars of Fortune Telling

12:44

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1.16 A Four-Day Trance and a Sleep-Walker

14:10

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1.17 Dialogue between Death and a Sinner, Railroad to Heaven and to Hell

15:45

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1.18 A Loveletter to a Sailor, A Maid and the Amorous Squire, The "Taking Off" of Prince Albert's Inexpressibles

15:06

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1.19 Battle of Pea Soup, and the Great Old Goat

10:06

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1.20 Adventures Looking for Mother Clifton, Selling a Wife

08:18

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1.21 The Perpetual Almanack, a Tounge-Twister Tale

10:38

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1.22 Female Teasing, Trademan's Hymn, The Register

11:00

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1.23 Rent Day, Cooking a Wife, and Various Other Things at an Auction

12:08

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1.24 The Last of the "Cocks," Suicide of an Artist and Letters Found on his Body

17:13

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2.1 Introduction to Political and Royal Broadsides, the King

11:22

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2.2 Three Accounts of Queen Victoria

12:07

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2.3 Queen Victoria's Marriage and An Assassination Attempt!

11:15

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2.4 Royal Childbirth and a Celebration of the Queen

08:13

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2.5 An Intruder Breaks into Queen Victoria's Bedroom and A Song about the Queen

11:52

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2.6 Three Accounts of the Birth of the Prince of Wales

13:46

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2.7 A Visit to the Queen, a Royal Exchange, a Royal Marriage

11:04

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2.8 A Scene in the Election (farce), Speling Book for the Unions

17:59

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2.9 The Times and John Bull v. the Pope's Bull

09:25

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2.10 A Political Catechism and Famine Fast Day

10:17

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2.11 Three Political Texts

18:26

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2.12 Three Accounts of Political Affiliations, Reform, and Elections

17:09

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2.13 Political Thanksgiving and the Rights of Women

12:04

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2.14 A Reform Alphabet and Two Irish Questions

14:26

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2.15 A New Bill and a New Act of Parliament

16:41

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2.16 Street Laws, the Poor Law, Death of a Pauper

13:18

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2.17 Two Catechisms: the Soldier's and the Drunkard's, and Two Poems About the Drunkard

13:34

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2.18 Beer House Act and Two Poems: Brave Nelson and Battle of Waterloo

09:40

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2.19 Four Songs about the Price of Food, Politics, and Laws

10:14

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2.20 Five Songs about the Irish Liberator, Poverty, and the Elction

10:15

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2.21 Four Songs about England, the Election, and the Death of Wellington

10:54

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2.22 Six Songs about Battles, Florence NIghtingale, and International Affairs

14:15

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2.23 Fours Songs about Cobden, Naval Battle, Lament, and Reform

09:23

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2.24 Three Songs about Reform

10:01

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2.25 Three More Songs about Reform

09:07

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2.26 Two Songs about Fenians and Explosion

13:58

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2.27 Trading Bill and Election

07:23

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3.1 Introduction to Division 3 and The Female Husband

16:50

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3.2 Shakespeare's House, a Costume, Manchester and Preston Guild

14:11

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3.3 A Prophesy, Grace Darling, a Championship, and an Accident on the Ice

14:58

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3.4 Foreigners in England and Financial Hardships

13:52

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3.5 And Agricultural Show, a Lunacy Case, and an Old Marquis and his Wife

11:51

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3.6 Two Marriages and One Affair

08:05

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3.7 Strike of Tailors, The Parson, Night in a Workhouse

12:41

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3.8 The Ghost, The Wiched Woman, The Artful Girl

09:47

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3.9 The She-He Barman, Beauty and Match-Making, the Convent

11:45

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3.10 The Flitch of Bacon, Lord Mayor's Show, and a Boat Race

09:22

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3.11 Three discussions of Fashion: Petticoats, Crinolines and Chignons

09:55

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3.12 The Velocipede, The Lord Mayor's Show, The Queen Opens a Viaduct

08:03

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3.13 Cabman Flags, a Divorce Case, and Volunteer Review

09:19

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3.14 A Parson Outwitted and the He-She Ladies

07:38

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4.1 Introdction to part 4 and The Life and Execution of Sir John Oldcastle

22:58

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4.2 The Dying Speeches and Execution of Seven Conspirators

18:39

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4.3 The Execution of Luke Hutton

08:21

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4.4 The Exectution of Conspirators and of Sir Walter Raleigh

13:34

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4.5 The Executions of Thomas Armstrong and William Nevison

08:28

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4.6 Trial and Executions of James Lowry, John Swan, and Elizabeth Jeffryes

10:42

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4.7 Execution of Six Unfortunate Malefactors and John Austin

14:43

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4.8 Trials and Executions of April 11, John Hogan, and Joseph Richards

11:20

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4.9 Old Bailey Intelligence and Execution of Eight Convicts

10:15

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4.10 Executions of Unforunate Sailors and Richard Parker

14:52

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4.11 The Executions of Mary Nott and James Nesbett

15:09

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4.12 Sentences of Prisoners of September 11, 1822 and the Death of Ann Williams

10:26

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4.13 The Confessions and Executions of John Thurtell, C.T. White, and Amelia Roberts

16:13

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4.14 The Confession and Execution of William Corder, Bishop and Williams

17:14

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4.15 The Confession and Execution of James Greenacre and F.B. Courvoisier

15:09

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4.16 The Executions of Robert Blakesley and Verses on Daniel Good

08:02

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4.17 The Executions of James Bloomfield Rush and John Gleeson Wilson

11:03

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4.18 An Execution and a Tragedy: Six Children Murdered by their Mother

10:17

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4.19 Execution of William Cogan and George Gardner

10:58

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4.20 Execution of William G. Youngman and the Wigan Murder

10:52

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4.21 The Execution of Priscilla Biggadike and Frederick Baker

11:42

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4.22 Executions at Durham, Confessions and Executions of Samuel Wright and James Clitheroe

17:52

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4.23 Two Murders on the Railway

08:51

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4.24 The Chase, Capture and Execution of Franz Muller

14:28

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4.25 Lamentation and Execution of James Longhurst and Miles Weatherhill

08:16

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4.26 Sentence of Constance Kent and Confession and Executions of Stephen Forward

10:44

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4.27 Execution of Pirates, Leigh and the Murder of a Child by a Schoolmistress

12:58

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4.28 Farewell to the World of Richard Bishop and Lamentations of J. Mapp and H. Lingley

10:03

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4.29 Executions of Alice Holt and the Murder of a Boy by his own Father

11:25

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4.30 Lamentations of J. R. Jeffery, John Fletcher, Ann Lawrence

10:09

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4.31 Executions of Michael Barrett, Allen, Gould, Larkin, and William Sheward

12:55

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4.32 Executions of John Devine, Martin Brown, and Alexander Mackay

16:04

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4.33 Murder of a Wife and Six Children and Executions of F. Hinson and J. Rutterford

13:55

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4.34 The Heroes of the Guillotine and Gallows

1:00:49

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