Palmer,A TOUCH ON THE TIMES.Songs of social change 1770-1914,Penguin 1974[MUSICA

Roy Palmer (Ed.),
A TOUCH ON THE TIMES.
Songs of social change 1770 to 1914,
Penguin Education 1974,
brossura, 18x11x2,4 cm., pp.352,
testo in lingua inglese,
peso: g.327
cod 0253

CONDIZIONI DEL LIBRO: molto buone



Before the days of national newspapers
and television you could often find the
ballad sellers. For a penny or less you
could have an account of a terrible murder,
a protest at the price of meat or the story
of a battle.
Roy Palmer has collected some of the best
songs to show the way ordinary people
reacted to social change. The book is
illustrated throughout with old photographs,
many of them published here for the first
time.

Roy Palmer is Headmaster of The Dame
Elizabeth Cadbury School, Birmingham.
Cover design incorporates a figure from a late-nineteenth-
century photograph (Victoria & Albert Museum) and a detail
from The Idle 'Prentice by Hogarth

CONTENTS
4 Introduction page 8
Part 1 The Times are Altered
The Road 22
The New Navigation 28
Humphrey Hardfeatures” Description of Cast-Iron Inventions 31
Johnny Green's Trip fro’ Owdhum to see the Manchester Railway 34
Navvy on the Line 40
The Navigators 42
A New Song on the Opening of the Birmingham and Liverpool Railway 46
The Cockney's Trip to Brummagem 50
The Wonderful Effects of the Leicester Rail Road 52
The Jolly Waggoner 56
The Railway Whistle or The Blessings of Hot-Water Travelling 59
The Scenes of Manchester 62
Oldham Workshops 65
Gorton Town 68
The Dalesman’s Litany 71
Liverpool's an Altered Town 73
I can`t find Brummagem 78
My Grandfather’s Days 83
The State of Great Britain or A Touch at the Times 88
Part 2 Stirrings on Saturday Night
Saturday Night 92
Sheffield's a Wonderful Town, 95
The Rigs and Sprees of Leeds Town 98
The Rigs and Fun of Nottingham Goose Fair 102
Country Statutes 105
Truro Agricultural Show 110
The Bullard”s Song 112
The Toon Improvement Bill or Nee Pleyce Noo ti Play 120
The Bonny Gray 123
The Football Match 125
Part 3 On Monday Morning I Married a Wife
The Rambling Miner 130
The Weaver and the Factory Maid 133
Dashing Steam·L0om Weaver 135
Poor Man's Work is Never Done 138
Washing Day 142
Fuddling Day, or Saint Monday in answer to Washing Day 144
Coulter’s Candy 148
The Skeul-Board Man 150
The Captain’s Apprentice 154
Cholera Humbug or The Arrival and Departure of the
Cholera Morbus 156
The Barnsley Anthem 160 '
The Lasses° Resolution to Follow the Fashion 162
The Tea-Drinking Wives 166
A Drop of Good Beer 168
A Word of Advice 172
London Adulterations or, Rogues in Grain, Tea, Coffee,
» Milk, Beer, Bread, Snuff, Mutton, Pork, Gin, Butter, etc. 175
A Chapter of Cheats or The Roguery of Every Trade 179
How Five and Twenty Shillings were Expended in a Week 183
Belly and Back 188
Tally Man 190
Wife for Sale 196
Part 4 Time to Remember the Poor
The Rambling Comber 200
The Miseries of the Framework Knitters 204
John o' Grinfield 207
Birmingham Jack of all Trades 210
The Tradesman's Complaint 214
New Dialogue and Song on the Times 218
What Shocking Hard Times 223
The Shurat Weaver's Song 226
Poor Frozen-Out Gardeners 230
Cowd Stringy Pie 234
The Rest of the Day°s your Own 236
The Buffalo 240
Botany Bay 242
Jim Jones 244
Curly Williams 246
Wakefield Gaol 250
New Bailey Tread-mill 254
Durham Gaol 257
A dialogue and Song on the Starvation Poor Law Bill,
between Tom and Ben 260
The New Gruel Shops 264
New Song: ‘To Hereford Old Town’ 268
The people’s Comic Alphabet 270
PART 5 The World Turned Upside Down
The Colliers’ March 274
The rights of Mankind 278
Watkinson and his Thirteens 281
General l Ludd's Triumph 286
Hunting a Loaf 289
A Radical Song 294
A New Song on the Peterloo Meeting 296
New Hunting Song 299
The Chartists are Coming 302 ,
The Best-Dressed Man of Seghill or The Pitman's Reward for
Betraying his Brethren 306
The Cotton Lords of Preston 313
The Lock-Out 316
Happy Land 318
The World Turned Upside Down 321
Poor Man's Heaven 324
Sources 328
Photographs Source List 334
Select Bibliography and Discography 340
Index of First Lines . 350
Acknowledgements 352