John Goodlad: The Salt Roads
Based on his best-selling book The Salt Roads, John Goodlad tells the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of Europe's staple foods.
About John Goodlad: The Salt Roads
| 25th February 2026 | |
| 7.30pm - 9pm | |
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Kyle Academy Kyle Academy Overmills Road, Ayr KA7 3LR |
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| £15 for general admission. Free for RSGS Members, Students and U18s. | |
| Visit the event website here | |
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Based on his best-selling book The Salt Roads, John Goodlad tells the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of Europe’s staple foods, powered an economic boom, and inspired artists, writers and musicians. For more than 300 years Shetland was at the centre of a fascinating salt fish-trading network that connected these remote islands to the rest of Europe. This captivating story is told through the lives of many remarkable people, the fishers, the merchants, and the exporters, ordinary people who led quite extraordinary lives.
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