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authors wrote on a variety of topics. The authors could then have their ballads printed and distributed. Printers used a single piece of paper known as a broadside, hence the name broadside ballads. It was common for ballads to have crude woodcuts at the top of a broadside. Historians Fumerton and Gerrini show just how popular broadsides had been in early modern England: the ballads printed numbered in the millions. The ballads did not stay just in London but spread to the English countryside. Owing to the printing

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