The Broadside Day is the annual one-day conference for people interested in Street Literature and Cheap Print in all its fascinating aspects – broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, woodcuts, engravings, last dying speeches, catchpennies, news (real and fake), almanacs, carol sheets, wonder tales, and all kinds of cheap printed ephemera sold or distributed to ordinary people in the streets and at fairs, from pedlars’ packs, and in back-street shops, up and down the country.
Organised jointly by the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and the Traditional Song Forum, the 2022 Broadside Day will now take place exclusively online.
Papers of 20 minutes length are invited on any aspect of our broad subject, including the content, the technology, the artifacts, the trade, the sellers, the audience, the illustrations, or on any other features of this diverse field.
Please send a proposal of not more than 250 words to Steve Roud ([email protected]) by Friday 19th November 2021.
As with previous conferences, we plan to make selected papers available in the Street Literature series published by The Ballad Partners in due course.
%MCEPASTEBIN%