SWIFT, JONATHAN
Jonathan Swift' reply to Francis Grant, on a proposed Anglo-Irish herring fishery scheme (There is not virtue enough left among mankind)
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
aka The Herripedia
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SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS
Charles I, The Stuarts, Maritime sovereignty, the herring and the building of a flagship
IDDIKETTS OR IDDIS
An historical journey through the extraordinary world of Norwegian sardine can labels, known and collected in Norway as iddiketts or iddis
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BUCKLING
On the hot-smoked herring delicacy that is buckling and its spiritual home in the small fishing town of Gudhjem on the Danish island of Bornholm
BUSS
On the large vessels developed by the Dutch for voyages to the fishing grounds off Scotland and England and for on board gutting and salting
CADGER
The derivation of the word 'cadger', a derogatory epithet for someone who tries to get things for free, and its origins in the fish trade
CALLER HERRIN’ (FILM)
Picking up on the song and fisherwomen's marketing of their wares, a film deploying documentary to encourage herring consumption
CALLER HERRIN’ (SONG)
Drawing on street cries, composed for harpsichord, given lyrics by Jacobite-sympathising aristocrat Mrs Bogan of Bogan, a Scottish song
CANNING
A history of canning, the derivation of 'can', sardines, pilchards, herrings and sprats, the great nations and the Great Sardine Litigation
CHOPPED HERRING
On the great Jewish dish, chopped herring or forshmak, a contested history and a range of possibilities
DIVINE PROVIDENCE
On interpreting the herring's grand migration as a gift from God, the ensuing arguments between nations and the eventual progress of science.
DRIED HERRING
An early method of preservation, continued in Native American cultures of the North West and South Korea
DRIFT OR GILL NETTING
On the nets used by drifters in a largely abandoned, but sustainable method of catching herring now developed unsustainably elsewhere
DRIFTERS (DOCUMENTARY FILM)
The first documentary, famously directed by Grierson; funded by herring historian & Financial Secretary to the Treasury, AM Samuel
DUMAS ON HERRING
Dumas and his Grand Dictionary of Cuisine, a flawed translation corrected and all its herring jokes and recipes restored