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Jun 19, 2025Jun 20, 2025HTBS

Ed Archibald: Winning the Headships 20 Years Apart

Jun 5, 2025Jun 8, 2025HTBS

Oxford Summer Eights 2025: Two Heads Are Better than One

May 31, 2024May 30, 2024HTBS

Eights Week: 200 Years of Snakes and Ladders

Jun 27, 2022Jun 26, 2022HTBS

Cameo of the Cam

Jun 1, 2022Jun 1, 2022HTBS

Welcome Back: Oxford’s Summer Eights

Apr 18, 2022Apr 17, 2022HTBS

Kings of the Cam

Mar 9, 2022Mar 30, 2022HTBS

Turning Blue: The 2022 Boat Race Crews

Jan 3, 2022Jan 2, 2022HTBS

Things that Go Bump in the Day*

Oct 29, 2021Oct 29, 2021HTBS

Allan Seager’s Joy on the River Isis

Jun 14, 2021Jun 13, 2021HTBS

Bumping Along

May 3, 2021May 4, 2021HTBS

Bumped Off

Apr 21, 2021Apr 20, 2021HTBS

Rowing History’s Baker Street Irregulars

Mar 29, 2021Mar 28, 2021HTBS

Two’s A Crowd…

Mar 5, 2020Mar 4, 2020HTBS

The Tab-let: News of the Light Blues

Jun 18, 2019Jun 17, 2019HTBS

The Bumps of May

Jun 17, 2019Jun 16, 2019HTBS

When Keble Went Head

Jun 13, 2019Jun 12, 2019HTBS

Head Of The River: Oxford’s Toughest Test? (Part II)

Jun 12, 2019Jun 11, 2019HTBS

Head Of The River: Oxford’s Toughest Test? (Part I)

Mar 14, 2019Mar 14, 2019HTBS

Bumper to Bumper

Jun 27, 2018Jun 26, 2018HTBS

Cambridge: plus ça change

Jun 26, 2018Jun 25, 2018HTBS

That Gut Feeling: The 2018 Cambridge University May Bumps

Aug 9, 2017Aug 8, 2017HTBS

A Snapshot of Rowing in the 1890s

Jun 28, 2016Jun 27, 2016HTBS

More Than Sport

Jun 21, 2016Jun 20, 2016HTBS

Bumps Diary Part 11: How the Bumps Went Down

Jun 14, 2016Jun 13, 2016HTBS

Bumps Diary Part 10: May Bumps – Excitement and Drama

Jun 7, 2016Jun 6, 2016HTBS

Bumps Diary Part 9: One More Day

Jun 6, 2016Jun 6, 2016HTBS

The 2016 Eights Week at Oxford, Part II: Aquatics and Ecstatics

Jun 5, 2016Jun 5, 2016HTBS

The 2016 Eights Week at Oxford, Part I: People and Places

Sep 18, 2015Oct 2, 2015HTBS

The Report That My Dog Ate: The 2015 Cambridge May Bumps, Part 2

Sep 7, 2014Sep 7, 2014HTBS

The Art of Bumping…

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