Elizabeth Heath

Elizabeth Heath is a writer, editor, and guidebook author based in central Italy, her base for adventures in travel, culture, history, and archaeology in Italy, the rest of Europe, and points farther. Find her on Instagram and read more of her work on her website.

Seasonal influxes of fishermen fed roaring local economies and attracted herring girls—women who came from across Iceland to take jobs gutting, cleaning and salting barrels of freshly caught fish.

How Iceland's Herring Girls Helped Bring Equality to the Island Nation

Between the 1910s and 1960s, thousands of young women formed the backbone of the country's thriving fishing industry

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