This year, my Twitter-friend @grenouille781 created a series of eel-themes Christ [...]
There are many stories of people dying after eating a plate of eels. Sometimes their deaths were an accident, and sometimes the r [...]
Have you ever woken up with a hangover after a hard night of partying, and thought to yourself, "What I really want right now is [...]
The eighth-century monk Bede gives us some of the first evidence of eels as a part of English life in post-Roman Britain. Scatter [...]
In 1931 Winston Churchill wrote an essay for The Strand in which he defended poli [...]
Eels show up in a lot of ways in the illegal economies of medieval and Early Modern England. They were poached from creeks, stole [...]