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Jun 8, 2024Oct 15, 2024HTBS

From Oxford to Everest – Part I

Jun 6, 2024Jun 5, 2024HTBS

D-Day+80: Remembering David Haig-Thomas

May 30, 2024May 29, 2024HTBS

The Coombes Monument: Four Heads Are Better Than None

May 16, 2024May 15, 2024HTBS

NYAC Celebrates 150 Years of Rowing

May 7, 2024May 7, 2024HTBS

Three Men and Three Women in Boats (To Say Nothing of the Dog and the Cat) – Part I

Apr 12, 2024Apr 12, 2024HTBS

Holmes and Watson Sleuth Around in Cambridge

Apr 11, 2024Apr 10, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Races Revisited

Apr 10, 2024Apr 9, 2024HTBS

The Drama of the Dead Heat

Apr 9, 2024Apr 8, 2024HTBS

The Other Oxford – Cambridge Boat Races: The Spare, The Senior And The Slight

Apr 8, 2024Apr 7, 2024HTBS

Rhythm and Blues

Apr 6, 2024Apr 6, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race III: The Underdogs Have Their Day

Apr 5, 2024Apr 4, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race II: Paper Meets Water

Apr 4, 2024Apr 17, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race I: On The Waterfront

Apr 2, 2024Apr 1, 2024HTBS

See It To Be It

Apr 1, 2024Apr 1, 2024HTBS

A Gut Feeling About The Boat Race?

Mar 30, 2024Mar 29, 2024HTBS

The Boat Race: Living History

Mar 28, 2024Mar 28, 2024HTBS

The Boat Race: Not For Hire Or Reward

Mar 27, 2024Mar 26, 2024HTBS

The Boat Race: Faster Than A Polka, Slower Than An Elephant

Mar 26, 2024Mar 25, 2024HTBS

Building a Winning Blue Boat in 1907

Mar 24, 2024Mar 24, 2024HTBS

Turning The Tide: Episode 3 – “The Kettle Boils Over”

Mar 22, 2024Mar 21, 2024HTBS

Turning The Tide: Episode 2 – “There’s always something”

Mar 18, 2024Mar 18, 2024HTBS

Return to Shanghai

Mar 16, 2024Mar 15, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race Crew Announcement: Two Icons Meet

Mar 14, 2024Mar 13, 2024HTBS

Turning The Tide – Episode 1

Mar 13, 2024Mar 13, 2024HTBS

9 March: International Oarswomen’s Day

Mar 12, 2024Mar 11, 2024HTBS

The HTBS Quindecennial

Mar 11, 2024Mar 11, 2024HTBS

A Tale of Two Blades

Mar 8, 2024Mar 8, 2024HTBS

IWD 2024: Rowing’s Female Pioneers, Past and Present

Mar 4, 2024Mar 3, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race Fixtures: 12-Weeks of Warming Up, Part II

Feb 27, 2024Feb 27, 2024HTBS

Showing Some Class

Feb 26, 2024Feb 25, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race Fixtures: 12-Weeks of Warming Up, Part I

Feb 9, 2024Feb 8, 2024HTBS

Henley’s Rowing Museum (Version 1.0)

Feb 8, 2024Feb 7, 2024HTBS

Titan of the Thames: The Life of Lord Desborough

Jan 26, 2024Jan 25, 2024HTBS

Buckle Up

Jan 3, 2024Jan 2, 2024HTBS

Supermac: The Last Edwardian

Dec 23, 2023Dec 23, 2023HTBS

Cambridge Men’s Trial Eights: Blue Steel

Dec 22, 2023Dec 21, 2023HTBS

Oxford Women’s Trial Eights: Fratricide

Dec 22, 2023Dec 21, 2023HTBS

Cambridge Women’s Trail Eights: The Lion Queens

Dec 12, 2023Apr 10, 2024HTBS

Trials On The Thames

Nov 28, 2023Nov 29, 2023HTBS

Blues Funk Part I

Nov 21, 2023Nov 20, 2023HTBS

University Challenge*

Nov 14, 2023Nov 14, 2023HTBS

Boat Race Night: A Certain Licence

Nov 7, 2023Nov 6, 2023HTBS

Shafted

Oct 11, 2023Oct 10, 2023HTBS

The Oxford Union

Sep 30, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

Siobhan Cassidy is New Chair of the BRCL Board

Sep 29, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

Chester Regatta, Part V: Gentlemen In Charge, 1839 – 1855

Sep 26, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

Chester Regatta, Part III: Stops and Starts, 1829 – 1837

Sep 22, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

Chester Regatta, Part I: Old But How Old?

Jul 17, 2023Jul 17, 2023HTBS

HRR 2023: Friday – Good For Some

Jul 11, 2023Jul 11, 2023HTBS

Thames RC Celebrates a Golden Anniversary

Jun 28, 2023Jun 27, 2023HTBS

Henley – The Agony And The Ecstasy Is About To Begin

May 30, 2023Jun 1, 2023HTBS

Was this Schoolboy Rower a Schoolboy Spy?

May 14, 2023May 13, 2023HTBS

Oared of Their Ore

May 1, 2023Aug 5, 2024HTBS

Death on the Charles

Apr 17, 2023Apr 17, 2023HTBS

2023 Boat Races Revisited

Apr 6, 2023Apr 5, 2023HTBS

First 50-Year Reunion for Cambridge Women

Apr 5, 2023Apr 4, 2023HTBS

Boat Race Day From Three Perspectives. Part III: At The Finish

Apr 4, 2023Apr 3, 2023HTBS

Boat Race Day From Three Perspectives. Part II: On The Water

Apr 3, 2023Apr 2, 2023HTBS

Boat Race Day From Three Perspectives. Part I: The Start

Apr 2, 2023Apr 2, 2023HTBS

P to M On Couch And Box

Mar 29, 2023Apr 2, 2023HTBS

The 2023 Oxbridge Vets’ Boat Races: Surviving “Masters’ Moments”

Mar 28, 2023Mar 28, 2023HTBS

Felix Drinkall: The Boat Race Personified 

Mar 25, 2023Mar 24, 2023HTBS

The 2023 Boat Race: Images of Tideway Week

Mar 24, 2023Apr 2, 2023HTBS

Sunday’s Boat Races: Looking Forwards By Looking Backwards

Mar 20, 2023Mar 19, 2023HTBS

What Are The Odds? The 2023 Boat Races Form Guide

Mar 15, 2023Mar 14, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part III, 1903-05

Mar 14, 2023Mar 16, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part II, 1902-03

Mar 13, 2023Mar 12, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part I, 1901-02

Mar 9, 2023Apr 1, 2023HTBS

Happy To Be Blue

Mar 8, 2023Mar 6, 2023HTBS

IWD 2023: Women As Wet-Bobs

Feb 23, 2023Feb 25, 2023HTBS

Tickled Pink: A New Rowing History

Feb 21, 2023Feb 21, 2023HTBS

May Time V

Feb 9, 2023Feb 8, 2023HTBS

May Time IV: Family Connections

Feb 4, 2023Feb 4, 2023HTBS

The Boat Race: From Vitaphone To YouTube

Feb 2, 2023Feb 1, 2023HTBS

Ilex RC: A Forgotten Club Occupying A Forgotten Place In Rowing History

Jan 16, 2023Jan 17, 2023HTBS

Chaloke Komarakul-na-Nagara: First of the Few

Jan 11, 2023Jan 10, 2023HTBS

Alan Burrough: Gin and Bear It

Dec 30, 2022Dec 30, 2022HTBS

Looking Forward 

Dec 18, 2022Dec 17, 2022HTBS

Cambridge Trial Eights: Rapinoe and Youth are First Among Equals

Dec 8, 2022Dec 7, 2022HTBS

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