Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring

aka The Herripedia

Tagged Catholic ...

FASTING

On herrings and fasting, fish-based fasting on Fridays and in Lent and its origins in earlier religions, cults and/or alien contact

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

WHITE HERRING

On the nature of white herring, its international markets and its historical underachievement with the Great British public

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