Politics
A collection of broadsheets, pamphlets and similar material relating to British politics of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Including:
A Briefe and Exact Treatise declaring How the Sheriffs...have been Anciently elected and chosen (Printed for T.I., 1642); Homer, Henry. An Enquiry into the Means of Preserving and Improving the Publick Roads (Oxford, 1767); and Eustace, John Chetwood, An Elegy to the Memory of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (F. and C. Rivington, 1798).
Along with political broadsides using poetry and allegory such as The Parable of the Blackbirds And the Magpies Vindicated (an allegorical history of the English Crown from Charles I-William III); the 1681 Tory Countrey-Mans Complaint; and poems on elections (such as Liddell versus Hart for Northumberland 1826) and others on new taxes (John Bull and the Taxes, complaining about tax-payers money going to the wedding of Victoria and Albert). They are with a number of other publications including proclamations, published speeches and broadsides. [23]