SCANIA FISHERY
The story of the first great empire-shaping herring fishery together with historical and scientific speculations on its rise and its fall
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
aka The Herripedia
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PARA HANDY
Including the full text of Neil Munro's Para Handy story, The Herring - A Gossip
TAXONOMY
On the biological classification of the herring and the taxonomic can of worms it opens up at species level and below
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MONKEY BUSINESS
Discovering The Marx Brothers in kipper barrels on a liner may not have been so improbable, but the dialogue makes up for any accidental plausibility
MUIR, JIM (HERRING INTERVIEW, ACHILTIBUIE)
An interview from 2005 with Jim Muir, who lived on the Coigach Penisula, near Achilitbuie and had been a herring fisherman
NAMES OF THE HERRING
The words for herring listed by language in alphabetical order with room for additions if anyone would like to send them
NASHES LENTEN STUFFE
A brief account of the writing of Thomas Nash's extraordinary late C16th work; its scurrilous red herring origin story extracted in full
NEUCRANTZ: ON HERRING (1654)
Including a complete, illustrated translation of Paul Neucrantz' C17th treatise on the herring together with notes on his sources
OATMEAL
The classic way with fried herring, together with recipe variations and some thoughts on just why oatmeal provides the perfect coating
Of Beginnings and Fundamental Ends (1 of 6)
The Sea of Tethys to the Cold War; C10th Norway to the 1930s, curatives & cravings; herring & herripedia origins; farts & papal fumes!
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
OTOLITHS & SCALES
On the use of growth rings in either to calculate a herring's age, together with details of the research pioneers who first used them
PARA HANDY
Including the full text of Neil Munro's Para Handy story, The Herring - A Gossip
PICKELHERING
The use of the name by C16th English slapstick clowns, out of fashion at home, unable to speak the languages of the countries where they laughed
PROCESSION OF THE HERRINGS
In which we explore a lost herring tradition of Reims and a lost Alexandre Dumas novel