About the content
This blog is about the history of ice skating, loosely interpreted. See Aims & scope. You can find posts by category or by searching.
- Bone skates(24)
- Books and articles(31)
- Competition(4)
- English style(3)
- Etymology(3)
- Field trip(2)
- Figures(14)
- FiguresNow(19)
- Freestyle(4)
- Freestyle slalom(4)
- Medieval skating(13)
- Metal skates(17)
- Metallurgy(1)
- Rinks(1)
- Roller skating(4)
- Science(3)
- Skaters(5)
- Skating skills(1)
- Uncategorized(1)
About the author: Bev Thurber, PhD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5249-6146I am an independent scholar whose research focuses on the history of ice skating. My book on bone skates was published in 2020, and I’m working on a number of other writing projects. You can find some of my work at Schaatshistorie.nl, Skating History Press, and my YouTube channel.