Opening the Royal Exchange - Royalty - English ballads

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(1) Opening the Royal Exchange

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https://digital.nls.uk/74895889

Description

Queen Victoria opened the new Royal Exchange on 28th October 1844. First line reads: See the high and the low, how along they/ do go.

Shelfmark

Crawford.EB.3080

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Library catalogue record

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Form / genre:

Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides

Dates / events:

1844 [Date printed]
1844 [Date/event in text]
1800-1900 [Date printed]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]

Subject / content:

Ballads
Queens (people)
Openings (events)
Exchanges (financial institutions)

Person / organisation:

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 [Subject of text]
Royal Exchange (London, England) [Subject of text]

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English ballads

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.

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Subject / content:	Ballads
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