The Edinburgh Skating Club

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She’s a widow, with a grown-up son away in Glasgow, but still athletic - or at least as athletic as the women’s fashions of the era allow, as she discovers when she has to chase Katherine’s runaway Pomeranian. In the internet age, such debates can quickly become heated online, and when Claire comments publicly about her theories the virtual world turns nasty. This is something we all need to see more books about, to look back at history with a different eye and get rid of outdated conceptions while at the same time give people the right credit.

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The NSA replied that it was, but decided to improve the quality of tuition by setting up Instructors tests at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels.

During King George IV’s visit to Edinburgh, he made several appearances without prior consent, which made the event’s organisers furious. All in all though it is an interesting piece of work that raises an important point: how much do we really know about the contribution of women to what we are today, as a human society?

Book review: The Edinburgh Skating Club, by Michelle Sloan

The defending champion Ulrich Salchow (1877- 1949) won again but Mrs Syers came second beating two other men. Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill made an amazing comeback to win the European Ice Dance title, 10 years after their last win.It was the venue for the British Championship in 1927, including the first Women's Championship for the Martineau Cup. Although, as many of you know, Salvador Dalí was a Spanish artist, this painting is very much a part of Scotland’s national consciousness.

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Meanwhile, skipping back in time to 1795, the protagonist is Alison Cockburn, a real-life literary figure who was friends with the literary, artistic and philosophical luminaries of the Enlightenment. Paul Kreckow and Trudy Harris demonstrated their new Tango at Hammersmith rink and the first British Inter Rink Ice Dance competition was held at Bournemouth. The romance between Katherine Hume and Francis Pringle was also interesting; I saw it initially develop on Katherine’s side and thought it would be sweet to see the feelings develop and the relationship blossom, however this really didn’t happen.

Together they navigate their way through the sights, sounds and faces of Enlightenment Edinburgh, from Old Town to New Town and from joyous friendship to a deep affection. Mirroring the historical friendship between middle-aged women Alison and Katherine is an amusing modern couple, university historians Clare Sharp and Jenny Brodie. He then moved on to Vienna, where he invented the Sitspin and gave demonstrations of free skating to music by classical composers.