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
aka The Herripedia
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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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SUFFERING SALTWORKERS OF SHIELDS
C19th/C20th Scottish herring industry dominance linked to the Siege of Newcastle and suffering South Shields saltworkers
SURSTRÖMMING
On the Swedish herring delicacy which defies delicacy, insisting upon schnapps and communal singing in the face of its intimations of mortality
SVETOVIDOV
On the Russian fish systematist who, having dealt the gadoid species, turned his great mind to the clupeidae
SWIFT, JONATHAN
Jonathan Swift' reply to Francis Grant, on a proposed Anglo-Irish herring fishery scheme (There is not virtue enough left among mankind)
TAXONOMY
On the biological classification of the herring and the taxonomic can of worms it opens up at species level and below
The Art of Gutting Fish (5 of 6)
Fishwives? Fisher lasses? Herring girls? Herring lasses? Lots of them! Plus an interview with artist Penelope Payne on her herring lass works...
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
TRAWLING
On the development of beam trawling which doesn't target herring (but destroys their spawning grounds) and pelagic trawling which does
ULLAPOOL
The story of a herring port, built with what seemed the best of intentions, but without consideration for the fish's noted unreliability
VENTJAGER
How they got the good new herring from somewhere off the coast of Scotland to wealthy Dutch burghers fresh from a hard day of being painted by Rembrandt
WEDGWOOD
In which we lust after that object of desire, the Wedgwood Queen's Ware herring dish (c 1780)
What’s in a Name? (3 of 6)
Carousel, Biggie Smalls & Angus Watson; taxonomy, racial theory & global warming: a herring tale in 8 fitts with 8 hand-crafted limericks.