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The Salmon Clause

•  Valentine Green, The History and Antiquities of the City of Worcester, Vol. II (London: W. Blmer and Co., 1796), 15, fn. 2.
•  Taylor Potts, Sunderland: A History of the Town, Port, Trade and Commerce (Sunderland, England: B. Williams & Co., 1892), 82–84. At https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sunderland/2Z8xAAAAMAAJ
• Thomas Nadauld Brushfield, The Salmon Clause in the Indentures of Apprentices (Chester: G.R. Griffith, 1897). At https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Salmon_Clause_in_the_Indentures_of_A/yAwsAAAAYAAJ
• Book review of J.W. Jones, The Salmon by F. T. K. Pentelow in Science Progress, 47, no. 188 (1959): 814–15. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43417321.

Paleography

• See, for example Harvard University, Geoffrey Chaucer Website, “How to Read Medieval Handwriting (Paleography)” at https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/how-read-medieval-handwriting-paleography, accessed 25 Jun., 2024.

London’s Population

• “The Evolution of London: The City’s Near 2000 Year History Mapped,” The Guardian, 15 May., 2014 at https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/may/15/the-evolution-of-london-the-citys-near-2000-year-history-mapped

The Thames Cleanup in the 20th century & beyond

•  Sylvia Tunstall, “Public Perceptions of the Environmental Changes to the Thames Estuary in London, U.K,” Journal of Coastal Research 16, no. 2 (2000): 273. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4300035.
• Rautanen, sanna-leena, antero luonsi, henry nygård, heikki s. vuorinen, and riikka p. rajala. “Sanitation, Water and Health.” Environment and History 16, no. 2 (2010): 173–94. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20723775.
•  For a comparative chart of British cities’ acid concentrations in water, you can read Smith’s original report on Google Books: Robert Angus Smith, Air and Rain: The Beginnings of A Chemical Climatology (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872), 332.
• Veronica Edmonds-Brown, “From ‘biologically dead’ to chart-toppingly clean: how the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years,” published 21 Apr., 2022, in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/from-biologically-dead-to-chart-toppingly-clean-how-the-thames-made-an-extraordinary-recovery-over-60-years-180895, accessed 26 Jun., 2024.

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Environmental history

• J.R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001).
• Dan Allosso, American Environmental History (Minneapolis: Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project, 2019) at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/648.

Hunter-Gatherers

• Most of this information can be found in any decent world history textbook. For more information see, e.g., Carol R. Ember, “Hunter-Gatherers” at Yale University, Human Relations Area Files: Explaining Human Culture, https://hraf.yale.edu/ehc/summaries/hunter-gatherers, accessed 10 Jul., 2024.

Secondary sources about Gilgamesh

• Joan Acocella, “How To Read ‘Gilgamesh’,” New Yorker 7 October, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/how-to-read-gilgamesh.
• Carolina López-Ruiz, “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” World Epics blog at Columbia University, https://edblogs.columbia.edu/worldepics/project/gilgamesh/.
• Ira Spar, “Gilgamesh” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbronn Timeline of Art History—Essays, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gilg/hd_gilg.htm.

Epic of Gilgamesh: Primary source

• For one of the most recent translations of Gilgamesh, see Sophus Helle, Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), Kindle Edition.
• For a free 1998 translation of the story, see The Epic of Gilgamesh, Maureen Gallery Kovacs, translator, at https://people.uncw.edu/deagona/myth/Gilgamesh 1-4.pdf .