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Hewins Ballads
Fonds
Reference code: PE 33
Scope and Contents
Some 220 broadside ballads of the 19th century, from the library of W.A.S. Hewins.
For further details of this collection, and digitised images, please see the external documents section below.
Dates:
19th century
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Sykes-Baron Broadside Ballad Collection
Collection
Reference code: 489
Scope and Contents
The collection is in fact one item – a piece of linen twenty centimetres wide and, when unrolled to its full extent, nine metres long, on to which have been pasted fifty sheets, containing a total of 260 broadside ballads (including seven duplicates). These printed sheets carry song texts, some with tune titles and some decorated at the top with woodcut pictures. The choice
of medium to carry these sheets is believed to derive from the fact that the Sykes family were cloth merchants....
Dates:
1839 - 1841
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives