{"id":2313,"date":"2010-12-30T13:54:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T13:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2020-03-30T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T14:00:39","slug":"skating-and-sliding-december-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2010\/12\/30\/skating-and-sliding-december-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Skating and Sliding – December 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Front
Front cover of Wood, J.G. Skating and Sliding<\/em>
(London: Routledge, 1872) (19th Century Collection, 19th C. Coll. 796.91 WOO)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the mid Nineteenth Century, increasing literacy levels and the industrialisation of printing and book-making combined to create a demand for cheap publications. This demand was well-met by ‘yellowbacks’: low-priced octavos with strawboard boards covered with yellow paper and often block-printed with pictures. Yellowbacks were ubiquitous in the 1870s and 1880s and George Routledge dominated the field. His publishing house started to experiment with non-fiction and with educational handbooks and thus the series Routledge’s Sixpenny Handbooks was born. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Illustration
Illustration of ‘Skating’ from Wood, J.G. Skating and Sliding<\/em>
(London: Routledge, 1872) (19th Century Collection, 19th C. Coll. 796.91 WOO)<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Skating and Sliding by the Reverend J.G. Wood and other\nwriters is an example of the series which also treated such subjects as\ncricket, manly exercises, fireworks, swimming and conjuring. This particular\nmanual takes learners through the history of skating, putting skates on, how to\nstart from the inside edge and progresses to various skating figures, such as\nthe Dutch Roll and the Figure of Three. It quotes three maxims attributed to\nrenowned skater Robert Ferguson: “Throw fear to the dogs”, “Put\non your skates securely” and “Keep your balance”!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Extract
Extract from Wood, J.G. Skating and Sliding<\/em>
(London: Routledge, 1872) (19th Century Collection, 19th C. Coll. 796.91 WOO)<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

From 1607 to 1814 a frost fair was held on the River Thames\nand into the early- Nineteenth Century rivers and canals froze sufficiently to\nsupport skating. The Skating Club was founded in London, 1830 and in 1876, the\nfirst artificial ice-rink (the Glaciarium) opened in Chelsea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John George Wood (1827-1889), having worked in the\nanatomical museum, Oxford and having made a name for himself delivering\nillustrated lectures on zoology, was best known as a writer on natural history.\nHowever, he also wrote books on gymnastics and other sports and even edited The\nBoys Own Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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