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Shellfish and its Role in UK History and Culture

Shellfish and its Role in UK History and Culture. Janet H Brown Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling. “it all started with the Romans….”. Scallop decoration from Verulamium UK 150AD. Skara Brae – neolithic village. Role of the church in mediaeval times.

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Shellfish and its Role in UK History and Culture

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  1. Shellfish and its Role in UK History and Culture Janet H Brown Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling

  2. “it all started with the Romans….”

  3. Scallop decoration from Verulamium UK 150AD

  4. Skara Brae – neolithic village

  5. Role of the church in mediaeval times

  6. Generous interpretation of “fish”

  7. Victorian times “Poverty and oysters always seem to go together”

  8. Science informing literature? "O Oysters, come and walk with us!" The Walrus did beseech. "A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach: We cannot do with more than four, To give a hand to each."

  9. Rise and fall of the oyster fleets • Production of Firth of Forth in 1800 – 30 million oysters pa • Dramatic fall in production in England thought to be related to advent of railways • First imports to boost production made in 1870s – Crassostrea virginica from USA and Ostrea edulis from France and Holland

  10. Darker story still with mussels

  11. Cromarty

  12. Map of Tain and Dornoch Firth

  13. Photos and work courtesy of shell artist Blott Kerr-Wilson

  14. More Blott Kerr Wilson – left from cookery school in Ballymaloe and above an orangerie in France

  15. The Water Baby by Herbert James Draper 1900

  16. Hymn to man

  17. 1 of Damien Hurst’s 4 gifts to the Tate Modern

  18. Birmingham

  19. East End culture

  20. The Shrimp Girl by William Hogarth

  21. Connections to Birmingham again

  22. Winkle Pickers

  23. Half of voters say Brown would struggle to run a whelk stall - Daily Mail November 2007

  24. Cockles and mussels alive alive O

  25. www.blottshellhouses.com

  26. Thank you ICSR

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