The Ballad Partners have issued the third volume in their series on Cheap Print and Street Literature, based on papers presented at the annual BROADSIDE DAY conferences.
The new title is A Notorious Chaunter in B Flat and Other Characters in Street Literature, edited by David Atkinson & Steve Roud (Pbk. 193pp., ISBN 978-1-9161424-4-2) £13 (plus p&p). Available only from the publishers’ website: www.TheBalladPartners.co.uk (non-UK customers please email before ordering, to sort out postage).
The contents are as follows:
A ‘Dark Man’ of Dublin Songs: Finding Joseph Sadler – Catherine Ann Cullen
‘Three Acres and a Cow’: Political Song in the General Election of 1885 – John Baxter
Valentine or Alan Tyne? Untangling the History of a Highwayman Ballad – Martin Nail
The Aberdeen Ballad Broadsides of 1775/6 – David Atkinson
George Nicholson’s Literary Miscellany: Assembling a Mechanics’ Modernity – Gary Kelly
Becoming Vellamo’s Brother: Finnish Broadside Ballads about the Titanic Disaster – Silja Vuorikuru
Street Cred: Teaching the History of News Ballads and Broadsides to Journalism Students – Harry Browne
Samuel Harward: Ballad and Chapbook Printer in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, and Cheltenham – David Atkinson
Thomas Sabine and Son: Street Literature and Cheap Print at the End of the Eighteenth Century – David Atkinson
A Notorious Chaunter in B Flat (1837) Introduction by Steve Roud [Added 16 May 22]