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Travels through the herriverse
Explore the world of strange wonders that’s revealed at the interfaces between mankind and the herring. Six, monthly episodes take you where few other podcasts venture.
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
aka The Herripedia
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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
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)
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
WHITE HERRING
On the nature of white herring, its international markets and its historical underachievement with the Great British public
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
X, CRUX OR KRUIS BRAND
An entry that possibly should have been filed under C, but which spuriously allows alphabetic completism