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Apr 2, 2025Apr 1, 2025HTBS

Olympian Kiwi Fiona Bourke Named USRowing High Performance Sculling Coach

Apr 1, 2025Apr 4, 2025HTBS

Oxford’s Final Fixtures

Mar 31, 2025Mar 30, 2025HTBS

3M to Fund USRowing’s Chief High Performance Officer

Mar 30, 2025Apr 9, 2025HTBS

Clothed in Strength

Mar 29, 2025Apr 27, 2025HTBS

And Then There Were Eighteen…

Mar 28, 2025Apr 20, 2025HTBS

Photo Essay 2: Postal Stamps

Mar 27, 2025Mar 26, 2025HTBS

Dating Aquatic Art

Mar 26, 2025Mar 26, 2025HTBS

The Maple Leaf Forever / La Feuille d’érable pour toujours

Mar 25, 2025Mar 24, 2025HTBS

The HoRR: Making Champions Since 1926

Mar 24, 2025Mar 23, 2025HTBS

An Experimental Archaeology Project: The Reconstruction of a Merovingian Boat

Mar 23, 2025Mar 22, 2025HTBS

The Young Oarsmen

Mar 22, 2025Mar 21, 2025HTBS

To the Rower

Mar 21, 2025Mar 20, 2025HTBS

Leander Library Book Talks Continue with H.M. van den Brink

Mar 20, 2025Mar 20, 2025HTBS

Mail Online Report Shock Horror*

Mar 19, 2025Mar 19, 2025HTBS

The Boat Race: A Row Before The Row

Mar 19, 2025Mar 19, 2025HTBS

A New Era for the Sport of Rowing

Mar 18, 2025Mar 23, 2025HTBS

The HoRR: From Pencils To Processors

Mar 17, 2025Mar 16, 2025HTBS

Mystic Malmö Malmö Mystic

Mar 17, 2025Mar 16, 2025HTBS

Neutral Russian and Belarusian Rowers at World Rowing Events 2025

Mar 16, 2025Mar 15, 2025HTBS

The Oars of Memory

Mar 15, 2025Mar 14, 2025HTBS

Henley 2025: So Predictable

Mar 13, 2025Mar 12, 2025HTBS

Mark Davies Interim CEO of British Rowing

Mar 12, 2025Mar 11, 2025HTBS

Oh, Hell, Another Birthday

Mar 11, 2025Mar 11, 2025HTBS

World Rowing Suspends Bahamas

Mar 10, 2025Mar 9, 2025HTBS

The 85th WEHoRR: A New Milestone

Mar 9, 2025Mar 8, 2025HTBS

Oars More Than Oars

Mar 8, 2025Mar 7, 2025HTBS

IWD 2025: Rowing In The Wake Of Pioneers

Mar 7, 2025Mar 6, 2025HTBS

Looking Down On Oxford

Mar 6, 2025Mar 7, 2025HTBS

The Cambridge Media Fixtures: A Colour Clash Of Light Blue, Cerise And Orange

Mar 5, 2025Mar 9, 2025HTBS

Celebrating Tom Weil

Mar 4, 2025Mar 3, 2025HTBS

Rhythm and Feuds

Mar 3, 2025Mar 3, 2025HTBS

Chuck Alm, Member of Legendary ’58 Husky Eight, Dies

Mar 2, 2025Mar 1, 2025HTBS

The Morning Row

Mar 1, 2025Feb 28, 2025HTBS

Remembering Harry

Feb 28, 2025Feb 27, 2025HTBS

The River And Rowing Museum: Not Viable

Feb 27, 2025Feb 26, 2025HTBS

Defeated, But Not Disgraced: How the Oxford Blues Beat the Harvard Magentas in 1869

Feb 26, 2025Feb 26, 2025HTBS

A Parallax View

Feb 25, 2025Feb 25, 2025HTBS

A Coach, a Don, an Oarsman, a Headmaster, an MI6 Agent, a Frogman, and a Traitor

Feb 24, 2025Apr 6, 2025HTBS

The Book of Waves

Feb 23, 2025Feb 22, 2025HTBS

HOSR Story Hour: Celebrating Thomas E. Weil

Feb 22, 2025Feb 19, 2025HTBS

The Boat Race Fixtures: Finding Form?

Feb 21, 2025Feb 20, 2025HTBS

Crossing Henley Bridge

Feb 20, 2025Feb 19, 2025HTBS

Crewcial Collectables: Another Contribution to Dublin’s Urban Blues

Feb 19, 2025Feb 18, 2025HTBS

Double Love

Feb 18, 2025Feb 17, 2025HTBS

Rowers, Spies, and Traitors

Feb 17, 2025Feb 17, 2025HTBS

Remenham Club: Knowing The Answers

Feb 16, 2025Feb 15, 2025HTBS

The Profoundness of Children

Feb 15, 2025Feb 14, 2025HTBS

Pocock’s Prowess

Feb 14, 2025Feb 13, 2025HTBS

Valentine’s Day: How To Win A Rower’s Heart (Again)

Feb 13, 2025Feb 12, 2025HTBS

Dr Dillon: Making History – Part II: Michael Dillon Revisited

Feb 12, 2025Feb 13, 2025HTBS

Dr Dillon: Making History – Part I

Feb 11, 2025Feb 10, 2025HTBS

Henley Royal Regatta: Open To Suggestions

Feb 10, 2025Feb 9, 2025HTBS

Zara Lachlan – First Woman to Solo Row from Europe to South America

Feb 9, 2025Feb 8, 2025HTBS

Container Ship

Feb 4, 2025Feb 3, 2025HTBS

Frenchy A. Johnson – Part II: Ode to an Oarsman

Feb 3, 2025Feb 4, 2025HTBS

Frenchy A. Johnson – Part I: Oarsman to Marksman

Feb 2, 2025Feb 1, 2025HTBS

In the Sound of Mystic Bells

Jan 29, 2025Apr 20, 2025HTBS

Photo Essay 1: International Regatta Posters

Jan 27, 2025Jan 27, 2025HTBS

Crossing the English Channel in a Racing Eight, 1885

Jan 26, 2025Jan 26, 2025HTBS

The Rowboat

Jan 24, 2025Jan 25, 2025HTBS

U.S. Olympic Sculler Bill Belden Dies

Jan 22, 2025Jan 22, 2025HTBS

Alastair Marks Steps Down as CEO of British Rowing

Jan 21, 2025Jan 22, 2025HTBS

The 1902 International Cork Regatta – The Berlin View

Jan 19, 2025Jan 18, 2025HTBS

Winterspeak

Jan 16, 2025Jan 15, 2025HTBS

No Women Rowing at the 1908 Olympics

Jan 15, 2025Jan 15, 2025HTBS

Birgit Skarstein Hangs Up Her Sculls

Jan 13, 2025Jan 13, 2025HTBS

Olympic Oarsman Roger Lebranchu Dies Age 102

Jan 12, 2025Jan 11, 2025HTBS

The Contested Rivalry

Jan 11, 2025Jan 10, 2025HTBS

Re-visiting Florida

Jan 10, 2025Jan 10, 2025HTBS

Oxford Brookes University Boat Club – A Sporting Miracle?

Jan 8, 2025Jan 7, 2025HTBS

The Most Magnificent Rowing Book

Jan 7, 2025Jan 10, 2025HTBS

Olympic Rowing Medallists Who Passed in 2024

Jan 6, 2025Jan 5, 2025HTBS

Tom Weil Goes to the Cricket

Jan 5, 2025Jan 4, 2025HTBS

All Is Flow

Jan 3, 2025Jan 2, 2025HTBS

Illuminating the Future

Jan 2, 2025Jan 1, 2025HTBS

Rowers in the King’s New Year’s Honours List

Jan 1, 2025Jan 5, 2025HTBS

HTBS in 2024

Dec 31, 2024Dec 30, 2024HTBS

The Feast of the Seven Fishes

Dec 31, 2024Dec 30, 2024HTBS

Happy New Year!

Dec 30, 2024Dec 31, 2024HTBS

Penny Chuter: A Champion Coach Who Poled Punts, Shoved Skiffs and Sculled Shells

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