![]() ![]() ![]() The drinking that followed these pursuits found predictable expression in dinner parties, club balls, and full-on pub crawls for which I swear the Royal Mile was consciously planned out this is where life-long friendships are formed. The weather was invariably miserable but it didn’t matter. I did a decent amount of cross-country running, memorably round Arthur’s Seat. The intra-mural squash team I played in was called ‘Court Short’. I rowed stroke in a ‘four’, and can vividly recall our blades smashing through ice on the dark canal where we trained. ![]() Years later, I would have the privilege of interviewing crime writer (and fellow alumni) Ian Rankin, in the New Town’s Oxford Bar, where we discussed the ‘Jekyll and Hyde’-like symbolism of the Old and New Towns.īack then, extracurricular activities for me were a typical mix of sports and drinking. One summer I spent working for the Edinburgh New Town Conversation Committee. It helped to study in such a stunning, historic city. This was taught ‘bottom up’, in terms of the lives of ordinary people.Īt the time, it was the only course of its kind in the UK. So often history is taught ‘top down’ – bishops, battles, kings and queens. I loved my degree course, which was Economic and Social History. ![]()
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