Street+Literature+Archives

Various pieces of street literature can be found at these archives:

The Word on the Street & Streetprint: Revolution and Romanticism

The Word on the Street archive has over 1,800 Scottish broadsides (see one below) and illustrations from the 18th and 19th centuries. You can search them by phrase, year, title, or subject. Each has a brief gloss of background info...

Streetprint: Revolution and Romanticism has a smaller collection of late 18th and 19th century texts, but it has more variety, including broadsides, chapbooks, penny dreadfuls, and a few almanacs. You can browse by category, year, author, etc. There is hardly any background info. accompanying the texts...