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The social history of a medieval fish weir, c. 600-2020
Pickles, Thomas
Pickles, Thomas
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2021-10-27
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This paper presents the longue durée social history of a medieval fish weir. It reveals the significant role of fishing and fish weirs in the construction and reconstruction of social structures and cultural identities. It focuses on an enigmatic annual ceremony – the construction of the Horngarth or Penny Hedge at Whitby, North Yorkshire. It begins by arguing that this descends from the construction of a medieval intertidal fish weir. It then explores the possible social and cultural contexts in which it originated and the social and cultural circumstances that perpetuated its construction to the sixteenth century. It proceeds to consider the social and cultural changes that undermined its original function and transformed its significance in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, and how an invented tradition about it became important to the local identity and national reputation of the town.
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Pickles, T. (2021). The social history of a medieval fish weir, c. 600-2020. Social History, 46(4), 349-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2021.1967637
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Taylor & Francis
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Social History
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social History on 27 October 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2021.1967637
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0307-1022
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1470-1200