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The article provides information on the upcoming 2025 Broadside Day conference, on 22 February, which will be held at Cecil Sharp House in London, UK, focusing on the history and cultural significance of Street Literature and Cheap Print, including broadsides, chapbooks, and other printed ephemera.

The article presents the online conferences due to Covid-19. Topics include announcing the "third Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs conference" working on traditional and popular tunes from October 10-11; performing contexts, levels of society, historical periods, and geographical locations; and Broadside Day being the annual one-day conference on 20 February 2021 at The Centre for Printing History and Culture in Birmingham interested in street literature for all its fascinating aspects.

The article offers information on the series of library lectures of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) in London, England on September 28, 2017 and October 27, 2017. Topics mentioned include the street literature and the printed lyrics of folk songs between the 16th and 20th centuries and the presentation of a traditional Scottish ballad "Barbara Allen."

The article offers information on the Broadside Day, an annual one-day conference for people interested in street literature, that will be held at the Cecil Sharp House in Great Britain on February 22, 2020.

The article offers an overview of street literature printing in Glasgow, Scotland. It explores how the city became one of the key centres for the production of street literature by the end of the 19th century, with the production of chapbooks as a particular specialty by early printers and later on shifted to broadsides. It highlights the local and prolific printing shop the Poet's Box, which boasts a large collection of songs and traditional items.