SALT
An 8,000 year history of salt and salt pickling, paying particular attention to the preservation of herrings by the German Hanse, the Dutch and the British.
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
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SUFFERING SALTWORKERS OF SHIELDS
C19th/C20th Scottish herring industry dominance linked to the Siege of Newcastle and suffering South Shields saltworkers
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS: FISH
The great American modernist, his poem, 'Fish' and his form with herring imagery
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A IS FOR A BEGINNING
On the fossil origins of herring in the Sea of Tethys, on the geographical spread of the Clupeidae and, in particular, our hero Clupea harengus
ARCHAEOLOGY
The earliest kitchen middens archaeological record of herring eating and why no earlier herring bones have been found
BALDIE
On the C19th Scottish origins and naming of the herring drifter known as the Baldie, including a photograph of two at Pittenweem
BALTIC HERRING
On the Baltic herring, Clupea harengus membras, found in the eastern and northern Baltic and in the Gulf of Bothnia
BATTLE OF THE HERRINGS (1429)
On the connection between Sir John Fastolf, victor at the Battle of Herrings, and Sir John Falstaff, a large Shakespearean character
BEUCKEL, Willem
On the semi-mythical C14th Dutch fisherman who may have come up with an improved method of gutting and salting herring
BLACK HERRING
On the ultra smoked and salted herring, a version of red herring, produced more for its preservation qualities than for taste or nutrition
BLOATER
On the original bloater, which may have evolved in the C17th, and the Yarmouth bloater, which was first produced there in 1835
BOHUSLÄN FISHERY
A brief history of the sporadic 'herring periods' on Sweden's Bohuslän coast and whether they're caused by sunspots or food availability
BRITISH FISHERY
An account of early underachievement, overdue triumph and eventual decline in both England and Scotland, featuring kings, economists and fishermen
BRITTEN
On the Lowestoft-born, English composer's creative relationship with herrings, possibly spurious, certainly little commented upon
BUCKLING
On the hot-smoked herring delicacy that is buckling and its spiritual home in the small fishing town of Gudhjem on the Danish island of Bornholm