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Jan 26, 2015Jan 31, 2015HTBS

The Last Giant

Jan 24, 2015Jan 24, 2015HTBS

Win or Lose – and Our Saviour

Jan 22, 2015Jan 22, 2015HTBS

Some Firsts That Weren’t – The Beginning of U.S. Collegiate Lightweight Rowing

Jan 21, 2015Jan 21, 2015HTBS

Rowing Chat with Peter Mallory

Jan 19, 2015Jan 18, 2015HTBS

Mrs. Broom’s Boys: Photographing History

Jan 13, 2015Jan 13, 2015HTBS

Cartoon Characters

Jan 9, 2015Jan 14, 2015HTBS

The Irish Rowing Archive

Jan 7, 2015Jan 7, 2015HTBS

Where Boats Grow On Trees

Jan 5, 2015Jan 4, 2015HTBS

Englishmen Playing Cricket and Rowing in Nazi-Germany

Jan 3, 2015Feb 10, 2015HTBS

Working the Loom of the Sea

Jan 2, 2015Jan 2, 2015HTBS

Christopher Davidge – The Man who Stopped Thatcher’s Boycott Plans

Jan 1, 2015Jan 1, 2015HTBS

No Post Today!

Dec 31, 2014Dec 30, 2014HTBS

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015

Dec 30, 2014Dec 29, 2014HTBS

Merry Rowing Christmas in 1939

Dec 27, 2014Dec 27, 2014HTBS

Christopher Guy Vere Davidge Dies

Dec 26, 2014Dec 26, 2014HTBS

The Eight of Spades

Dec 25, 2014Dec 25, 2014HTBS

Happy Holidays!

Dec 24, 2014Dec 24, 2014HTBS

Santa’s Sydney Soirée 2015

Dec 23, 2014Dec 23, 2014HTBS

Share the Rowing Spirit

Dec 22, 2014Mar 23, 2019HTBS

2014 – Not a Good Rowing Year!

Dec 19, 2014Dec 19, 2014HTBS

Boston’s Bid for the 2024 Olympic Games

Dec 18, 2014Dec 17, 2014HTBS

The Sea Change

Dec 17, 2014Dec 17, 2014HTBS

Vale Stanley Richard Pocock

Dec 17, 2014Dec 16, 2014HTBS

Ein Deutsches Trink – und Ruderlied

Dec 16, 2014Dec 16, 2014HTBS

The International Cup at Cork Regatta 1902 – The Two Poem Regatta

Dec 15, 2014Dec 14, 2014HTBS

Name the Crew

Dec 14, 2014Dec 13, 2014HTBS

1943: Not a Blue Race

Dec 12, 2014May 5, 2024HTBS

Celebrating Henry Searle

Dec 11, 2014Dec 10, 2014HTBS

Trial By Thames: The 2014 Trial Eights

Dec 10, 2014Dec 9, 2014HTBS

Sir Steve Wins Another Henley Prize

Dec 9, 2014Dec 9, 2014HTBS

Follow Dorland to Düsseldorf and Henley

Dec 8, 2014Dec 7, 2014HTBS

…and here is another silly OUBC video – You Got To Love It!

Dec 4, 2014Dec 4, 2014HTBS

The Democracy of Rowing

Dec 3, 2014Dec 2, 2014HTBS

Rowing Chat with Mahé Drysdale on Rowperfect

Dec 2, 2014Dec 1, 2014HTBS

Tie-in

Dec 1, 2014Nov 30, 2014HTBS

‘Mileage makes Champions’ – New Edition of Steve Fairbairn on Rowing

Nov 28, 2014Nov 27, 2014HTBS

Radley College: From School To The Somme

Nov 27, 2014Nov 27, 2014HTBS

Happy Turkey Day!

Nov 25, 2014Nov 25, 2014HTBS

…and yet another farewell of the Rowing Hall of Fame

Nov 24, 2014Nov 23, 2014HTBS

Gifts For Wise Men (And Women) To Bear This Christmas

Nov 20, 2014Nov 20, 2014HTBS

Rowing For Gold

Nov 17, 2014Nov 17, 2014HTBS

Bob Moch talks about 1936 Olympic Final

Nov 14, 2014Nov 14, 2014HTBS

The Boat Race: The Trial Eights

Nov 13, 2014Nov 12, 2014HTBS

The 2014 FISA Award Winners

Nov 11, 2014Nov 11, 2014HTBS

“Blood Sweeps Land and Seas of Red”: The Completed Project

Nov 11, 2014Nov 10, 2014HTBS

Carrickfergus Amateur Rowing Club: Remembering Their WW1 Fallen

Nov 10, 2014Nov 18, 2014HTBS

The Lord Mayor’s Show: A Return To Its River Roots

Nov 9, 2014Nov 10, 2014HTBS

Downfall of Rowing’s Master Class

Nov 8, 2014Nov 8, 2014HTBS

The 2014 Wingfield Sculls: ‘Held By The Best’

Nov 5, 2014Nov 4, 2014HTBS

Rowing to Arcturus

Nov 3, 2014Nov 3, 2014HTBS

Putting It Into Context

Nov 3, 2014Nov 2, 2014HTBS

Movember: Grow and Groom

Nov 2, 2014Nov 3, 2014HTBS

Picture This: The 2014 Head Of The River Fours

Oct 31, 2014Oct 30, 2014HTBS

Frantically Rowing Across Memory’s Styx

Oct 30, 2014Oct 29, 2014HTBS

History in the Blood

Oct 28, 2014Oct 27, 2014HTBS

1977: The Piquancy of Rumour on the Bosbaan

Oct 27, 2014Oct 26, 2014HTBS

60th Fuller’s Head of the River Fours

Oct 25, 2014Oct 25, 2014HTBS

Oxford v Cambridge On The Tideway: Now We Are Four

Oct 23, 2014Oct 23, 2014HTBS

2015 Henley Races

Oct 22, 2014Oct 23, 2014HTBS

Who Wants Some Old Rowing Historians?

Oct 21, 2014Oct 21, 2014HTBS

Australian Oarsman and PM Dies

Oct 20, 2014Oct 20, 2014HTBS

2014 HOCR Results

Oct 19, 2014Oct 18, 2014HTBS

In Medias Res

Oct 17, 2014Oct 17, 2014HTBS

The Forgotten Rowing Movie with Heartthrob Rudolph Valentino

Oct 16, 2014Oct 16, 2014HTBS

50 Years of HOCR

Oct 16, 2014Oct 15, 2014HTBS

World Rowing Announces Finalists for 2014 World Rowing Awards

Oct 15, 2014Oct 15, 2014HTBS

Last Day with the Gang…

Oct 13, 2014Feb 18, 2017HTBS

Grünau: Is A Rowing Museum Like A Dog Walking On Its Hind Legs?

Oct 10, 2014Oct 10, 2014HTBS

Our Relationship with the Boat Race

Oct 8, 2014Oct 7, 2014HTBS

What Propelled Him

Oct 6, 2014Oct 5, 2014HTBS

Nothing To Do With Rowing

Oct 3, 2014Sep 30, 2014HTBS

1914: The Rowing Front

Oct 1, 2014Sep 30, 2014HTBS

New book: Salt, Sweat, Tears

Sep 28, 2014Sep 20, 2014HTBS

A Talent, Innate

Sep 26, 2014Sep 26, 2014HTBS

Selections from the Memoirs of Mike Ashby, Part III : Shades of Brideshead and Other Stories

Sep 24, 2014Sep 26, 2014HTBS

Selections from the Memoirs of Mike Ashby, Part II: Joining the Fighting Cocks

Sep 22, 2014Sep 20, 2014HTBS

Selections from the Memoirs of Mike Ashby, Part I: Silencing The Old Men

Sep 21, 2014Sep 20, 2014HTBS

New Exhibit at RRM

Sep 18, 2014Sep 18, 2014HTBS

Sad Days…

Sep 17, 2014Sep 18, 2014HTBS

Doggett’s From On High

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