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Description: | Song written during the post-war years of the Napoleonic Wars.It had been hoped that the end of the Napoleonic Wars would be followed by a period of peace and prosperity. However the five or six years after 1815 were a period of intolerable privation for the people of Tyneside. The sudden stop in demand for armaments and war materials threw many ironworkers, factory operatives and miners out of work. The number of unemployed was further aggravated by thousands of discharged soldiers and sailors who found it impossible to find jobs.This song would have been issued in an attempt to raise the profile of the Navy in these times of hardship. It is likely that similar songs would have been printed throughout the country. 'A Touch on the Times' forms part of the John Bell Collection. ; A collection of broadsheets on various subjects, with accompanying press cuttings and manuscript notes in the hand of John Bell. | Publisher: | G. Summers Sunderland ; Tyne and Wear | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | 1800-1815 & protest & peace & sailors & Royal Navy health and welfare & protest war & Napoleonic Wars war/armed forces & poverty | Temporal: | start=1801;end=1840; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N0109401 | Go to resource |
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