A collection of around 2,200 items dating from 1505 to 1897. The arrangement is mainly chronological in 22 boxes and each item is numbered. The subject matter is extremely varied and includes official proclamations and ordinances, declarations, speeches and addresses, lampoons and satires, dealing with political and religious controversies, plots and conspiracies, the Jacobite Risings and their aftermath, trade and commerce, and reports on foreign affairs and campaigns abroad. One of the largest groups is concerned with the threatened invasion of England by Napoleon in 1803. The earliest item in the collection is an imperfect copy of an indulgence printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1505. The earliest Scottish broadside is 'Iniunctions Set Down by the L. Provest Bailzies and Counsel of Edinburgh to be Observed by the Stablers' (Edinburgh, 1634).

Organisation

The items have been catalogued individually and have the shelfmark 'Crawford.MB.'.

Acquisition

Deposited in 1988.

Online resources

Digital images of the Crawford Miscellaneous Broadsides collection