Broadsides: politics and crime A collection of five broadsides and handbills, including: Plain Questions for Plain People, broadside against William Feilden at the 1841 General Election in which he switched allegiance to the Tories, signed ‘A Reformer’, Blackburn, printed by J. Burrell; Broadside issued by the agents of Thomas Whitmore and Sir Tyrwhitt Jones, who served together as Members of Parliament for Bridgnorth from 1818 to 1820, to ‘inform the Burgesses and friends of those Gentlemen’ of dinners and ale to be provided for them, printed by G. Gitton, 1818; Handbill promising a reward for the apprehension of John Ruderham, suspected of the murder of Leonard Wilson, issued by the Mayor of Lynn, (Ruderham was subsequently executed for the crime), large closed tear, further holes with some loss, manuscript ink date in margin, 11th of October 1765; ‘Public Office, Bow Street. 500 Pounds Reward. Whitehall, Feb. 10, 1815.’, broadside offering a reward for the apprehension of a man who shot Edmund Walsh (foreman to the printers Hargeaves and Dugdale) and fled the scene, 3 closed tears, printed by J. Downes; with a broadside advertising an auction of goods from the wreck of the British galliot the St. Maries, Scilly, 1812; v.s. (5)