PROPHETIC HERRINGS
On the strange markings discovered on two herrings and their possible connection with the death of Denmark's Frederick II five months later
RED HERRING JOKE, THE
The story of the red herring gag shared between Shakespeare, Jonson & Nashe in at least six great literary works
RING NET: WILL MACLEAN
An interview with Scottish artist Will Maclean on his documentary exhibition, The Ring Net, which he developed between 1973 and 1978
SARDINES
The sardine in cans, on the slab and in popular culture; the limits of self-identification for herrings and non-European pilchards
SHOALS OF HERRING, THE
Written for the BBC's Radio Ballads, a song by Ewan McColl which has entered the traditional music repertoire and is sung by many
SINGING THE FISHING
Always at the forefront of documentary innovation, the herring swims through the great Radio Ballad of 1960
SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS
Charles I, The Stuarts, Maritime sovereignty, the herring and the building of a flagship
SWIFT, JONATHAN
Jonathan Swift' reply to Francis Grant, on a proposed Anglo-Irish herring fishery scheme (There is not virtue enough left among mankind)
TOURISM: MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
On AC Hardy's proposal for a herring research centre and William Hodgson's brief vision of what might have been a formidable tourist attraction
WEDGWOOD
In which we lust after that object of desire, the Wedgwood Queen's Ware herring dish (c 1780)
WHEN HERRINGS LIVED ON DRY LAND
A curious Estonian folk song telling us both why the herring swims in the sea and why the sea is salty
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS: FISH
The great American modernist, his poem, 'Fish' and his form with herring imagery
WITCHCRAFT
The role of herrings in England's penultimate witch trial and the subsequent part the narrative played in shaping the hysteria in Salem