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Apr 18, 2021Apr 17, 2021HTBS

The Subconscious Gesture

Apr 17, 2021Apr 16, 2021HTBS

The Isle in Lockdown

Apr 16, 2021Apr 15, 2021HTBS

Doggett’s 306: Third Time Lucky?

Apr 15, 2021Apr 14, 2021HTBS

Thames Festival Trust Receives Grant from Culture Recovery Fund

Apr 14, 2021Apr 13, 2021HTBS

At the River Picnic

Apr 13, 2021Apr 13, 2021HTBS

RIP Louis Petrin

Apr 12, 2021Apr 11, 2021HTBS

Champs on Lago di Varese

Apr 11, 2021Aug 15, 2021HTBS

Good Signs…

Apr 10, 2021Apr 10, 2021HTBS

Three Cases of COVID at the European Championships

Apr 10, 2021Apr 10, 2021HTBS

2021 Boat Races Revisited

Apr 9, 2021Apr 9, 2021HTBS

HRH Prince Philip

Apr 9, 2021Oct 18, 2021HTBS

Those Two Rascals, John and Ellis

Apr 8, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

The 1900 Boat Race: Brother Against Brother

Apr 7, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

A Silver Lining for a Blue Cloud?

Apr 6, 2021Apr 8, 2021HTBS

Keep it in the Family

Apr 5, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

Cambridge Hone Home Waters Their Way

Apr 5, 2021Apr 4, 2021HTBS

A Little Bird Told Me…

Apr 4, 2021Apr 3, 2021HTBS

Happy Easter

Apr 4, 2021Apr 3, 2021HTBS

The Race, Never Ending

Apr 4, 2021Apr 3, 2021HTBS

Boat Race Reminder

Apr 3, 2021Apr 3, 2021HTBS

Should the Boat Race Rowers Worry About Gemini?

Apr 2, 2021Apr 1, 2021HTBS

River & Rowing Museum Awarded Culture Recovery Fund Due to COVID

Apr 2, 2021Apr 1, 2021HTBS

The Boat Race of ’21: Two Days to go, a Hundred Years Gone

Apr 1, 2021Oct 18, 2021HTBS

Q&A: Bill Lanouette on The Triumph of the Amateurs

Mar 31, 2021Apr 1, 2021HTBS

I Remember Larry Gluckman

Mar 31, 2021Mar 30, 2021HTBS

Banner Rowing Club for Women: Perpetuating Interest in Rowing in Minneapolis

Mar 30, 2021Mar 29, 2021HTBS

Love’s Lament

Mar 29, 2021Mar 31, 2021HTBS

Tragedy on Little Wall Lake

Mar 29, 2021Mar 28, 2021HTBS

Two’s A Crowd…

Mar 28, 2021Mar 28, 2021HTBS

Yes, But What Do They Actually Spend It On?

Mar 27, 2021Mar 26, 2021HTBS

Yes, But What Do They Actually Do?

Mar 26, 2021Mar 26, 2021HTBS

The 2021 Australian Championships

Mar 26, 2021Mar 25, 2021HTBS

In Ely-sian Fields

Mar 25, 2021Jul 25, 2021HTBS

Bernhard von Gaza: Olympian, Champion Sculler, Writer and Soldier

Mar 24, 2021Mar 23, 2021HTBS

No European Junior Championships In May

Mar 23, 2021Mar 22, 2021HTBS

Alf: The Twinn Who Was One Of A Kind

Mar 22, 2021Mar 22, 2021HTBS

The Winner Takes It All

Mar 21, 2021Mar 20, 2021HTBS

No Loss in Translation

Mar 20, 2021Mar 19, 2021HTBS

Reminder: Lisa Taylor Webinar on Rowing, 14 April

Mar 18, 2021Mar 17, 2021HTBS

HWR 2021: From Lockdown To Countdown

Mar 17, 2021Mar 16, 2021HTBS

1950 British Empire Games: “A Flying Visit”

Mar 16, 2021Mar 15, 2021HTBS

Matt Smith is Leaving World Rowing at the End of 2021

Mar 15, 2021Mar 14, 2021HTBS

Charles Merivale: Looking Down On The 2021 Boat Race

Mar 14, 2021Mar 13, 2021HTBS

Rowing Through COVID

Mar 13, 2021Mar 16, 2021HTBS

The Crew That Makes The Boat Sing

Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021HTBS

12 March 2009 – Still Blogging…

Mar 11, 2021Mar 10, 2021HTBS

Nobuhisa Ishizuka – New USRowing Board Chair and President

Mar 10, 2021Mar 9, 2021HTBS

Aquatic Treasures Of The British Museum

Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021HTBS

The Boat Race Welcomes The Heavenly Twins

Mar 9, 2021Mar 8, 2021HTBS

Maurice Phelps: Chronicler of the Dynasty 

Mar 8, 2021Mar 7, 2021HTBS

Feminism Afloat: Images For IWD 2021

Mar 7, 2021Mar 8, 2021HTBS

Transcendence

Mar 5, 2021Mar 5, 2021HTBS

Frivolously Friday: Cambridge, 1898

Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021HTBS

Throwback Thursday: Oxford 1912

Mar 2, 2021Mar 2, 2021HTBS

HWR 2021: Keeping To Its Course

Mar 1, 2021Mar 1, 2021HTBS

The 306th Doggett’s: History on Hold

Feb 28, 2021Feb 27, 2021HTBS

Winter, Midpoint

Feb 27, 2021Feb 27, 2021HTBS

Kara Kohler got her Ticket to Tokyo

Feb 27, 2021Feb 26, 2021HTBS

Operation Varsity Blues Soon on Netflix

Feb 26, 2021Feb 25, 2021HTBS

Stuck in the Toffs’ Pigeon Hole

Feb 23, 2021Feb 24, 2021HTBS

Everyone Loves A Gold Cup

Feb 22, 2021Feb 21, 2021HTBS

Venice: Standing Up for Women’s Rowing

Feb 21, 2021Feb 21, 2021HTBS

The Rowing Mind

Feb 20, 2021Feb 20, 2021HTBS

2021 FISA World Rowing Indoor Championships

Feb 19, 2021Feb 19, 2021HTBS

Lisa Taylor Webinar on Rowing

Feb 17, 2021Feb 16, 2021HTBS

Muttle’s Volte-Face

Feb 16, 2021Jun 9, 2021HTBS

The Curious Case of Doctor Dillon

Feb 15, 2021Aug 15, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021: Down But Not Out

Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021HTBS

The Rixons: Oars, Poles, Dogs & Fists

Feb 14, 2021Feb 14, 2021HTBS

Happy Valentine’s Day

Feb 13, 2021Feb 12, 2021HTBS

Rowing up to the Dam

Feb 12, 2021Feb 11, 2021HTBS

The Ways We Go

Feb 10, 2021Feb 10, 2021HTBS

NRF Gets New Board Members

Feb 8, 2021Feb 7, 2021HTBS

Donald Gollan: The Nearly Man

Feb 7, 2021Feb 6, 2021HTBS

Afterwards: A Narrative

Feb 5, 2021Feb 4, 2021HTBS

Harriman and Acheson: Fighting the Crimson and the Reds

Feb 4, 2021Feb 4, 2021HTBS

Guy Rixon: The Writing Sculler

Feb 3, 2021Feb 2, 2021HTBS

Percy Hansen: Valour Personified

Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021HTBS

The College Oarsmen who Helped Save the Sterling

Feb 1, 2021Jan 31, 2021HTBS

Simon Crosse: London RC’s Architect Dies

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