OLIVIER, LAURENCE
The true story of Sir Laurence Olivier's heroic campaign to save the kippers on the Pullman Car breakfast menu of the Brighton Belle
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
aka The Herripedia
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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
HARENG SAUR MONOLOGUES
The hareng saur of the Siege of Paris inspired poems by Cros, Huysmans and Richepin and, with them, the modern French monologue
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DUTCH GRAND FISHERY
The rise and fall of the 'Groote Visserye', its role in the Dutch War of Independence and in various wars with England and Scotland
ENGLAND’S PATH TO WEALTH AND HONOUR
James Puckle's 1700 version of his patriotic, herring fishery promotional pamphlet, crying out for English superiority over the Dutch
ETYMOLOGY
On the derivation of the word herring and the uncertainty attached to it, along with that, similarly uncertain, of the kipper
EUPHEMISMS
Some of the names given to herrings together with the associated logics and a brief digression on the subject of Bombay duck
EYVIND SKÁLDASPILLIR
The earliest herring poet and the two earliest herring poems, together with the difficulties of dealing with kings
FARTING
The herring's squeak or fart, from C17th Lübeck to 1980s Soviet submarine incursions into Swedish waters and a 2003 Ig Nobel Award
FASTING
On herrings and fasting, fish-based fasting on Fridays and in Lent and its origins in earlier religions, cults and/or alien contact
FEEDING
On when herrings feed, their favourite foods at different points in their life cycle and the effect of what they eat on their own oiliness
FIFIE
On the development, nature and adaptability of the sailing and steam drifters, the Fifie; its unsurprising origins on the Fife coast
FISH FINGERS
Birdseye Frozen Foods, Clarence Birdseye, Captain Birdseye and the original herring prototype for fish fingers
FLEAS
A brief, possibly unnattractive account of fleas and their use in a Norfolk fisherman's ability to predict herring catches
GERMAN SPIES
An dubious account of the use of herrings to identify German spies pretending to be Dutch during World War II