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Hearts & Minds… Do they think we’ve forgotten what the Covenanters Army did to South Shields’ salt pans?

Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring: The Easter Bonnet Edition. The hardback edition, from Hurst Publishers, is out in September.

#marinescience people out there. Working on edits for my herring encyclopaedia and checking the World Register of Marine Species and it looks like the Pacific Herring has been reclassified as a subspecies of the Atlantic. I’ve argued for it, but… Can anyone clarify?

Great Krapp’s Last Tape from Gary Oldman at York’s Theatre Royal. I was in my 20s when I saw my first production of it. Saw productions of it in my 40s and 50s. Maybe it was Oldman - and he was wonderful in the role - but maybe it also just gets funnier when you’re in your 70s.

The loss of Calais was always in Mary I’s heart, but Charles I was still crowned King of France. Foreign ships could sail the Channel as long as they lowered their flags to his Royal Navy. Cardinal Richelieu ordered the French navy not to raise their flags in the first place.

Herripedia Man walks into a bar. Barman says "What can I get you?" Man says "A red herring." Barman asks "How do you make that?" Man says "Take a bottle of whiskey, a lemon, honey, ice cubes, olives, a cherry and a blender." Bartender asks "Then what?" Man says, "Pour me a Guinness."

In the world’s first herring poems (Eyvindr Skaldaspillir, 960s) they are ‘the tail-fin-feathered terns of the long nets’. Arrows, on the other hand, are ‘Egil’s leaping herrings,’ the flight in the air above interchangeable with the shoal in the waters beneath.

Roter heringssalat - not red herring salad but red herring salad. It’s the way you tell ‘em. #fishdishes #eatmoreherrings

Ah! The Presents from Yarmouth which filled the kists of the herring lasses returning to Scotland at the end of the season! A fine display at Buckie & District Fishing Heritage Centre.

Eeek! Proofing! Only 115 days before it’s published…

Thank you Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 for pointing to the lack of herrings in the encyclopaedia proofing pic. Thank you Bill Herbert for supplying one. It will speed up the process no end @hurstpublishers.

Vorsprung durch the old fictions! You have to go a long way to find a herring T shirt espousing the Grand Migration Theory the great Marcus Elieser Bloch thought he’d put to bed back in 1783. Well, all right, you can get them online. #marinescience #naturalhistoryhistory #fish

Dual use barrel: herrings on top; revolutionary propaganda below. How close did Norway come to a Soviet Socialist Republic in Finnmark? We may never know. (Pomor Museum, Vardo) #leftwingherrings #russianrecipes #wheresthemayo #herringsoftheworld

Tip top herrings Laing Art Gallery by Ruskin Spear father of the Bonzo’s Roger Ruskin Spear. #herrings #herripedia #fishart #stilllife #fishnchips #BonzoDogs

Warmer waters means smaller clupeids. This little herring once swam in proto-Morocco, in the Sea of Tethys between Laurasia & Gondwanaland, between 90 & 100 million years ago. #whitebait #eatmoreherrings

Kippers! They’re not just for breakfast. Get with the sophisticated set…

Only 4 to go until St John’s Day, when the Dutch fleet would gather for the start of the herring season off the Shetlands. A little invention is always needed to see you through the dark months.

In the long struggle for control of Yarmouth’s herring fair, the Cinque Ports’ shield said, ‘Your 3 lions are backed by our ships.’ Yarmouth’s said, ‘Herring tails - that’s where the money comes from. In the long struggle… Yarmouth won. #SilverDarlings #HerringSilver

Book’s out Sept 25th. The launch will be at Newcastle’s Lit & Phil on Thu 9th Oct, 7.30pm (free, but book: bit.ly/4lesXoU). There will be herring snacks.