Broadsides

This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain. By presenting a detailed discourse analysis of 650 broadsides printed across Britain between the years 1800-1850, this book provides a unique and alternative interpretation as to their narratives of crime.

Broadsides explores the political and cultural history of the Navy during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through contemporary caricature.

Torsten Mossberg writes of his new release: “For this album, I have chosen both popular literary songs and ballads, from the middle ages until the present day. The early songs were released as broadsides, also mentioning which melody that could be used. More recent songs and ballads are often literary and were published with melodies in songbooks and song collections of individual songwriters. Those songs referring to hymns have their numbering taken from Den svenska psalmboken 1986 [The Swedish Hymn Book 1986].” Torsten Mossberg is a physician, specializing in anesthesiology and intensive care. He studied singing with Ester Ruhrsetiz, Eva Pilat and Bjorn Thulin, and has extensive experience as a choir singer. He has a broad repertoire, from ballads to romances and cabaret songs, and has released several albums of rarely recorded songs by Swedish composers.