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Broadsheet

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Usually a broadsheet was a single sheet of paper containing various types of information. It was a common manner of receiving news during the Restoration times. Additionally it could serve the purpose of entertainment by publishing ballads or poems.

Broadsheet celebrating King William's victories during the Ireland campaign
















Sources: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/english-literature/restoration-literature.html

Image: Hall, Simon, Haywood, John, The Penguin Atlas of British and Irish History. London [et al.]: Penguin Books, 2001. p. 141.