#broadsheets

“Bill of mortality” from the Great Plague of London's deadliest week, which ended on this day in 1665, leaving a count of 7165 dead.

In addition to the high count attributed to "Plague" and other expected maladies of the time, we see deaths assigned to more enigmatic causes — “Frighted”, “Suddenly”, “Winde”, “Teeth”, and “Stone”. In addition to those that paint a very specific and vivid picture, e.g. “Burnt in his Bed by a Candle at St. Giles Cripplegate”.

To having been traumatized:

Getting dramatized

Thomas Barrow and newspapers!

Mystery paper

Sporting Life & Sportsman - a specialist paper? a part of some other paper? Idk

Yorkshire Gazette (Described as weekly Conservative publication, it advocated landowning and farming interests and supported the Established Church. by the British Newspaper Archive, regarding when it started in 1899) 

The Daily Mirror

[Modern paper from 2014, image source DA official Instagram]

The murderer, John "Butcher" Fowkes, who was hanged on this occasion, is said to have had a persecution complex, believing that his own family was out to get him; and so he murdered his nephew with a poacher's gun in order prevent this. One source says that he was actually aiming the gun at his father. He was the last man to be publicly hanged at Leicestershire Prison.

Our  Library, though situated at the opposite end of the world from Britain, may collect a sampling of material from countries from which New Zealanders have originated. It holds a collection of 19th century British ephemera, much of it from the area around Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

The Leicestershire Mercury, of Saturday next, March the 8th (Price 3d., unstamped) will contain full reports of the Leicestershire Assizes, including the trial of John Fowkes, for the Snarestone Murder. Early orders should be given to Mr Wayte, bookseller, Ashby-de-la-Zouch; ... [1856]

Questioner: Are there Awakened objects on Scadrial because it talks like, "Hello, do any of your metal objects talk to you?" Or is that just you having fun with the broadsheets cause the broadsheets may not be a hundred percent true?

Brandon Sanderson: The broadsheets are definitely not one hundred percent true, but we didn't put anything in there that didn't have a reason.

Questioner: Ok then. That makes sense.

Brandon Sanderson: So that is a RAFO.

"Purity not a problem!"

The 1789 mutiny on the ‘Bounty’, and the subsequent settlement of Pitcairn Island by the mutineers was an event that caught the British imagination. News of the ‘Bounty’ mutiny reached England the following year. In 1808, American Captain Mayhew Folger discovered the mutineers on Pitcairn, but  it was not until September 1814 that two British ships rediscovered the island and its community.  Two years later on 20 April 1816, the performance described in this broadsheet took place. Its first performance at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane was “honoured with unanimous Applause throughout”. This broadsheet is for the third performance of the season. Reviewers loved the dresses, the scenery and the dancing, but exclaimed that they “could not for our lives conceive how the pirouettes and scientific movements of professed opera-dancers … could have been acquired by the demi-savage islanders”

Theatre Royal Drury Lane :This present Saturday April 20 1816, Their Majesties’ servants will perform (4th time) a new romantick operatick Ballet Spectacle, ... "Pitcairn's Island" ... composed by and produced under the direction of Mr Byrne; the vocal and melo-dramatick musick composed and compiled by Mr M Corri ... after which (19th time) a new farce, called "What next?" to which will be added (2d time these 20 years) the musical farce called "The two misers" [1816]