
Broadside Day 2015 took place at Cecil Sharp House on 21st February 2015.
The day consisted of the following talks...
The Truth to you I’ll Tell: how much can we Trust Broadside Ballads?
Colin Bargey
Seeing Music: George Scharf and the street musicians of London
Nigel Tallis
What I don’t know about Broadsides
Steve Roud
Broadside Tunes from Claude M. Simpson and the Folk and Broadside Tunes in The Full English: a comparative analysis
Lewis Jones
From Old Country to New World: emigration in Welsh ballads
E. Wyn James
Samuel Harward (1741/2–1809) Printer and Bookseller in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, and Cheltenham
David Atkinson
Songs from the Sailorhood: Robert Gilchrist, ‘Bard of Tyneside’
Paul Gilchrist
Sheer Cheek and Cheap Chic: chapbooks for children
Jonathan Cooper
Do broadsides play a part in relaying the great events of history? Case Number 1: The Battle of Waterloo
Peter Wood