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Author: Ellen

Instead of boring my friends with my need to catalog my life through music, I'm putting it here.
Mar 31, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Cambridge Wins The Retro Boat Race

Mar 30, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Tim Koch: Facing The Press

Mar 29, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Tim Koch: Pictures from Tideway Week: Wednesday

Mar 28, 2013Mar 28, 2013Ellen

Reminder: The Boat Race 2013

Mar 27, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The ‘Other Boat Races’

Mar 27, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Clean Sweep for Oxford

Mar 26, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Champions Rowing in Australia for their State of Origin

Mar 25, 2013Nov 4, 2021Ellen

Going Underground with the Boat Race and Boat Racing

Mar 23, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

A Blow To The Head

Mar 23, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Mara Ford Named NRF Associate Director

Mar 22, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

An Act of Waugh

Mar 21, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

2013 Sydney International Rowing Regatta

Mar 21, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

‘Sons of the Thames’ – Won a Race Already in 1840

Mar 20, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Charlie Pitcher Sets an Amazing Record!

Mar 19, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Trois hommes dans un bateau (sans parler du chien)

Mar 19, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

History of Rowing in Brittany

Mar 18, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Among Hard Drinking Hypocrites and ‘Eight Good Men’

Mar 18, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Oxford Looking Good…

Mar 17, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

How Old is Sons of the Thames RC?

Mar 17, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

FISA 2013 Rule Book

Mar 15, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Probably not a Paris Crew Medal after all…

Mar 14, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

1867 Paris Exhibition Regatta Medal for Sale!

Mar 13, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Hooray!

Mar 12, 2013Mar 12, 2013Ellen

Grainger After Receiving Her CBE: ‘Living the Dream’

Mar 11, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Desports: The First Sports Magazine to Read with a Bookmark

Mar 9, 2013Mar 9, 2013Ellen

World Rowing Video Library Now Open for the U.S.

Mar 8, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Richard Hylton-Smith: His First 83 Years In Rowing

Mar 7, 2013Mar 7, 2013Ellen

Light or Dark Blue?

Mar 6, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Frank Cunningham Dies

Mar 5, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Tipping The Scales For The Boat Race

Mar 4, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Buggy Jerwood: Ideals of English Gentlemanliness

Mar 2, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Congratulations NBC!

Mar 1, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Trying to Break the British Indoor Record

Feb 27, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Staying Out

Feb 26, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

It Was Me!

Feb 25, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Keen Eddie.. how do you like me so far?

Feb 24, 2013Sep 28, 2020Ellen

Attention: Sable!

Feb 22, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

John Beresford: My Dad as an Inspiration

Feb 21, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Good Row… Terrible Music…

Feb 20, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The Shell of Man

Feb 18, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The Mystery ‘Stereoview Card’

Feb 17, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Who Let The Dawgs Out?

Feb 15, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

‘Don’t do it!’

Feb 14, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

CUBC vs. University of Washington Crew Lists

Feb 13, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Huskies v Tabs, Deutschland über Isis

Feb 12, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

To Tough it Out with the Help of a Hot Irish Whiskey

Feb 11, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

19th-Century ‘Champion of the World’ Joins Steve Redgrave’s Boat at RRM

Feb 10, 2013Feb 10, 2013Ellen

With 5.5 C+ inside the house

Feb 8, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Badges on the Bay

Feb 6, 2013Feb 6, 2013Ellen

… but I Like These Best!

Feb 5, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

New Game Changing Fin

Feb 3, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Rowing in the Cold

Feb 1, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

A New Series about Rivers in Ireland

Jan 31, 2013Jan 31, 2013Ellen

Cover Your Flanks…

Jan 30, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Rowing History Footnote: HRR – Not a Water Picnic!

Jan 29, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Cross Pays Tribute to Nethercott

Jan 28, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Tim Koch: A Local Loving Cup

Jan 27, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Acer Nethercott – GB Olympic Cox Dies Age 35

Jan 26, 2013Jan 26, 2013Ellen

With the Titan Over the Atlantic

Jan 26, 2013Jan 26, 2013Ellen

Rowing is Passion

Jan 24, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Mitchell & Kenyon – The Rowing Collection

Jan 23, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

And the Winner is….

Jan 22, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Think Summer!

Jan 20, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Touching Distance

Jan 19, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Grace, Grit and Glory…

Jan 18, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Rowing Apps for Free

Jan 17, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Rowing History Footnote: Leave it to Sandow, the Strong Man…

Jan 16, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

What the Rower Dreamed

Jan 15, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Euro Open – Indoor Rowing Championship 2013

Jan 14, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

More Rowing in T&C

Jan 13, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The Word, Spoken

Jan 12, 2013Jan 12, 2013Ellen

The Magic Crocker Oar that Tells it all

Jan 11, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Don’t Miss…

Jan 10, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

A Prop Blade?

Jan 9, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Painting of Oarsman Edward Hawks will be Auctioned by Bonhams

Jan 8, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Ergs don’t Float, unless they’re made of Wood!

Jan 7, 2013May 5, 2024Ellen

New Zealand’s New Year’s Honours

Jan 6, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

A Rower Muses be the Winter Fire

Jan 4, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The Passing of a Gentleman

Jan 3, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Rowing History Footnote: The Race that Ended with a Fight

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