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Lines on the death of Lord Beaconsfield

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(1) Lines on the death of Lord Beaconsfield
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74893069
Description	First line reads: A great man his [sic] dead, and England is mourning. In one column.
Shelfmark	Crawford.EB.2123
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1881 [Date printed] 1800-1900 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Merseyside > Liverpool urban district > Liverpool (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Ballads Prime ministers Deaths Elegies
Person / organisation:	Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 [Subject of text]
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English ballads
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Description	Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
Attribution and copyright:	Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1800-1900 [Date printed]
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