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Mar 18, 2018Mar 17, 2018HTBS

The Day of the Heats

Mar 17, 2018Mar 17, 2018HTBS

It’s either Oxford or Cambridge

Mar 16, 2018Mar 15, 2018HTBS

Lisa Taylor: Lucy Pocock Stillwell – A Woman in a Waterman’s World?

Mar 15, 2018Mar 14, 2018HTBS

Head-to-Head-to-Head-to-Head

Mar 14, 2018Mar 17, 2018HTBS

Stephen Hawking: Remembering the cox ‘with his head in the stars’

Mar 14, 2018Mar 14, 2018HTBS

Stephen Hawking Dies

Mar 13, 2018Mar 12, 2018HTBS

Talk about Rowing

Mar 12, 2018Mar 11, 2018HTBS

HTBS – at 9

Mar 11, 2018Mar 10, 2018HTBS

To Simply Row Away

Mar 10, 2018Mar 6, 2018HTBS

Furnivall Sculling Club: Ladies First

Mar 9, 2018Mar 6, 2018HTBS

Suffragettes and Sport: Legitimate Targets?

Mar 8, 2018Mar 6, 2018HTBS

Pulling Against the Stream: Historic Images of Women’s Rowing

Mar 7, 2018Mar 7, 2018HTBS

Black and Blue: Molesey v OUWBC

Mar 7, 2018Mar 7, 2018HTBS

Weekend Warriors

Mar 6, 2018Mar 5, 2018HTBS

Reunited … and it Feels So Good

Mar 5, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Boat Race Quiz: Blue Teasers

Mar 4, 2018Mar 3, 2018HTBS

Rowing Writing

Mar 3, 2018Mar 4, 2018HTBS

Lucy Pocock-Stillwell: A Woman in a Waterman’s World?

Mar 2, 2018Jul 14, 2023HTBS

The Ancient Egyptian Rowing Stroke: Propelling the Boats of Gods and Men

Feb 28, 2018Feb 28, 2018HTBS

Weighing Up The Boat Race Crews

Feb 26, 2018Feb 25, 2018HTBS

Neighbours at War: Oxford v Brookes

Feb 25, 2018Feb 24, 2018HTBS

Rowing in the Gods’ Cup

Feb 24, 2018Feb 23, 2018HTBS

Dan Boyne doesn’t give the Heavies a Ghost of a Chance

Feb 23, 2018Feb 22, 2018HTBS

New Age Categories for Masters Rowing

Feb 21, 2018Feb 21, 2018HTBS

Light Blue and Purple – A Colour Clash

Feb 20, 2018Feb 21, 2018HTBS

Soviet Two-Time Olympic Champion Yury Tyukalov Dies

Feb 20, 2018Feb 20, 2018HTBS

Global Competition Awards $50,000 Prize to Single Scullers

Feb 19, 2018Feb 18, 2018HTBS

The Nile Boat Races: ‘A Confusion of Fun’ or ‘Beaten by a Dead Donkey’

Feb 18, 2018Feb 17, 2018HTBS

Being, Centered

Feb 16, 2018Feb 21, 2018HTBS

Dan Boyne Gets Ready for “Skit Night”

Feb 14, 2018Feb 13, 2018HTBS

Happy Valentine’s Day

Feb 13, 2018Feb 13, 2018HTBS

Olympic Rower Micheen Thornycroft Wins the 2017 Filippi Spirit Award

Feb 12, 2018Feb 11, 2018HTBS

2018 World Rowing Indoor Championships Entries Announced

Feb 11, 2018Feb 10, 2018HTBS

Doing the Morning Crossword

Feb 9, 2018Feb 8, 2018HTBS

Water Colours: Some Paintings Inspired By The River Thames

Feb 7, 2018Feb 9, 2018HTBS

Make Way for Ducks

Feb 5, 2018Feb 4, 2018HTBS

Day Boyne and his Crew Lose a Boat

Feb 4, 2018Feb 6, 2018HTBS

Wave Watching

Feb 2, 2018Jan 7, 2022HTBS

Let’s Go Rowing with Lord Paddington

Feb 1, 2018Feb 1, 2018HTBS

Teti Appointed New U.S. National Team Men’s Head Coach

Jan 31, 2018Jan 31, 2018HTBS

Tom Weil’s Portillo Moment

Jan 29, 2018Aug 10, 2020HTBS

BARJ Docks at the RRM

Jan 28, 2018Jan 27, 2018HTBS

The Tribal Ritual

Jan 27, 2018Jan 26, 2018HTBS

Rowing in Minnesota – History and Photography

Jan 26, 2018Jan 26, 2018HTBS

Rowing’s Continuation and Resilience in Wartime Oxford

Jan 25, 2018Jan 25, 2018HTBS

Mara Ford New Head of the NRF

Jan 25, 2018Jan 25, 2018HTBS

New Rowing Blog Launched

Jan 24, 2018Jan 23, 2018HTBS

Averell Harriman – In Seattle in 1948?

Jan 23, 2018Jan 23, 2018HTBS

Boat Builders’ Shell Models

Jan 22, 2018Jan 21, 2018HTBS

Backsplash: The Box Set

Jan 21, 2018Jan 20, 2018HTBS

Rowing the Salad Course

Jan 20, 2018Nov 14, 2021HTBS

David Goodes – A Coach who made Boats go Fast

Jan 19, 2018Jan 18, 2018HTBS

Levski RC is Looking for Boats

Jan 16, 2018Jan 15, 2018HTBS

The Blackstaffe Trophy: A Case of Reverse Alchemy

Jan 14, 2018Jan 13, 2018HTBS

Life As a Biblical Parallel

Jan 12, 2018Jan 12, 2018HTBS

The Rowers Conference

Jan 10, 2018Jan 10, 2018HTBS

The Biffens of Hammersmith – Builders of Boats Big and Small

Jan 8, 2018Jan 7, 2018HTBS

The Loneliest Spot in the Olympics

Moon over snowy country road
Jan 7, 2018Jan 7, 2018HTBS

Rower’s Moon

Jan 5, 2018Jan 4, 2018HTBS

Bronze Sculling Figure

Jan 4, 2018Jan 4, 2018HTBS

Single Scull Model

Jan 2, 2018Jan 2, 2018HTBS

Sir David Hangs up his Oar

Jan 1, 2018Dec 31, 2017HTBS

It’s 2018!

Dec 31, 2017Dec 30, 2017HTBS

HTBS by the Numbers

Dec 30, 2017Dec 29, 2017HTBS

The Gift, Unwrapped

Dec 29, 2017Jan 22, 2018HTBS

Backsplash: The Rowing History Conference – Talk by Peter Mallory, Part III

Dec 28, 2017Dec 30, 2017HTBS

Backsplash: The Rowing History Conference – Talk by Peter Mallory, Part II

Dec 27, 2017Dec 30, 2017HTBS

Backsplash: The Rowing History Conference – Talk by Peter Mallory, Part I

Dec 26, 2017Dec 22, 2017HTBS

ZZZZZZZZZ……

Dec 25, 2017Dec 22, 2017HTBS

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Dec 24, 2017Dec 22, 2017HTBS

Returning From Rowing

Dec 23, 2017Dec 22, 2017HTBS

Roku Rowing Channel

Dec 22, 2017Dec 22, 2017HTBS

Happy Hour … Again!

Dec 21, 2017Dec 20, 2017HTBS

BARJ Lives!

Dec 20, 2017Dec 20, 2017HTBS

The Rule of a ‘Click’: The End of Writing on Rowing? – Part III

Dec 19, 2017Jun 7, 2018HTBS

The Rule of a ‘Click’: The End of Writing on Rowing? – Part II

Dec 18, 2017Dec 21, 2017HTBS

The Rule of a ‘Click’: The End of Writing on Rowing? – Part I

Dec 17, 2017Dec 16, 2017HTBS

Truth Island

Dec 16, 2017Dec 15, 2017HTBS

Dan Boyne Gets a Taste of the Stroke Seat

Dec 15, 2017Dec 15, 2017HTBS

NZ Olympic Legend Simon Dickie Dies

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