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
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