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Month: May 2016

May 31, 2016May 30, 2016HTBS

Bumps Diary Part 8: Birds of a Feather

May 30, 2016May 30, 2016HTBS

Kilometres Make Champions*

May 29, 2016May 29, 2016HTBS

The Shore Before Us

May 28, 2016May 28, 2016HTBS

Rowing to Arcturus

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016HTBS

The 1956 Winning Letter

May 26, 2016May 26, 2016HTBS

The Eccentric Reginald Bray: The Postal Prankster and ‘Autograph King’

May 25, 2016May 25, 2016HTBS

HTBS is doing well!

May 24, 2016May 30, 2016HTBS

Bumps Diary Part 7: A Difficult Week

May 23, 2016May 22, 2016HTBS

A Flapper Goes Rowing

May 22, 2016May 21, 2016HTBS

Rhapsody

May 21, 2016May 20, 2016HTBS

Willoughby-on-Thames

May 20, 2016May 19, 2016HTBS

Boathouse Dogs – Bets, Bottles and Blackwell

May 19, 2016May 18, 2016HTBS

The Crystal Glass of Memory

May 18, 2016May 18, 2016HTBS

‘Rowing is a Metaphor for Life’

May 17, 2016May 17, 2016HTBS

Bumps Diary Part 6: Pots and Pieces

May 16, 2016May 15, 2016HTBS

Edwardian Rowing: Threatened by Golf, Punt Cushions and ‘My Lady Nicotine’

May 15, 2016May 15, 2016HTBS

More Dogs and Boats

May 14, 2016May 14, 2016HTBS

The Orb, in Raiment Splendor, Turns

May 13, 2016May 13, 2016HTBS

Racing in Ireland in the mid-1940s: Fit Young Men

May 12, 2016May 13, 2016HTBS

A Chat with HTBS Poet Philip Kuepper

May 11, 2016May 11, 2016HTBS

Homer of Vesta RC

May 10, 2016May 9, 2016HTBS

Bumps Diary Part 5: The Boathouse

May 9, 2016May 9, 2016HTBS

Sweden’s Most Devoted Sculler, who was an Olympic Torchbearer

May 8, 2016May 7, 2016HTBS

The Transformation

May 7, 2016May 6, 2016HTBS

Survival of the Fattest

May 6, 2016May 5, 2016HTBS

Carrying a Torch for the Olympics

May 5, 2016May 4, 2016HTBS

The Nominees for the 2016 Thomas Keller Medal

May 4, 2016May 3, 2016HTBS

Smoke on the Water

May 3, 2016May 9, 2016HTBS

Bumps Diary Part 4: Races and Rivalries

May 2, 2016May 1, 2016HTBS

Happiness is Hamlet

May 1, 2016Apr 30, 2016HTBS

“The Boys of ’36” – Trailer

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