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Dec 6, 2022Dec 6, 2022HTBS

Not Cuckoo: Signs of Spring

Dec 3, 2022Dec 2, 2022HTBS

Blues, Brown, Boris, Bruce and Buccaneers in the Boat Race, Part II

Dec 2, 2022Dec 1, 2022HTBS

Blues, Brown, Boris, Bruce and Buccaneers in the Boat Race, Part I

Nov 28, 2022Nov 28, 2022HTBS

The Fictional Life of Jock Lewes

Nov 18, 2022Nov 21, 2022HTBS

Rowing in Verse and Worse 

Nov 10, 2022Nov 10, 2022HTBS

Jock Lewes: From Tideway to Tobruk – Part II, Oxford 1933 – 1937

Oct 20, 2022Oct 20, 2022HTBS

Two Presidents: Betty And Monkey

Oct 9, 2022Oct 11, 2022HTBS

Eamonn McCabe: Three Lives Through The Lens

Sep 8, 2022Sep 7, 2022HTBS

From Marlow to Malaya?

Aug 25, 2022Aug 25, 2022HTBS

Happy Birthday Steve!

Jul 28, 2022Jul 27, 2022HTBS

Duncan Clegg: Hero and Heavy

Jul 2, 2022Jul 3, 2022HTBS

Henley: That Friday Feeling

Jul 1, 2022Jul 3, 2022HTBS

Henley Thursday: Sunshine and Showers

Jun 27, 2022Jun 26, 2022HTBS

Cameo of the Cam

May 17, 2022May 16, 2022HTBS

Thanksgiving for the Life of Bill Windham

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022HTBS

The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part I: Preamble

Apr 18, 2022Apr 17, 2022HTBS

Kings of the Cam

Apr 9, 2022Apr 9, 2022HTBS

The Boat Race Comes Home

Apr 8, 2022Apr 10, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part III – After

Apr 7, 2022Apr 7, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part II – During

Apr 6, 2022Apr 5, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part I – Before

Apr 4, 2022Apr 4, 2022HTBS

Breaking News

Apr 3, 2022Apr 2, 2022HTBS

Relative Rowing

Apr 1, 2022Mar 31, 2022HTBS

A Tideway Week Album: The Cambridge Men

Mar 25, 2022Mar 24, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Reading the Runes

Mar 19, 2022Mar 19, 2022HTBS

Oxford Women and Lightweights get Pre-Race Bounty

Mar 9, 2022Mar 30, 2022HTBS

Turning Blue: The 2022 Boat Race Crews

Feb 19, 2022Feb 18, 2022HTBS

BlueTube

Feb 18, 2022Feb 18, 2022HTBS

William Grenfell’s ‘Rowing at Oxford’

Feb 1, 2022Feb 15, 2022HTBS

How Oxford Won The Boat Race

Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Beating the Blues?

Jan 25, 2022Jan 25, 2022HTBS

Pieces of Eight

Jan 7, 2022Jan 7, 2022HTBS

Cam-era

Jan 3, 2022Jan 2, 2022HTBS

Things that Go Bump in the Day*

Dec 22, 2021Dec 21, 2021HTBS

The Can Tabs and the Can’t Tabs: The Cambridge Men’s Trial Eights

Dec 18, 2021Dec 17, 2021HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Trials: Keeping in the Stream

Dec 16, 2021Dec 15, 2021HTBS

East is East – Or is He?

Dec 3, 2021Dec 3, 2021HTBS

At The Pictures: A Hundred Thousand Oarsmen

Nov 23, 2021Nov 22, 2021HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race: Throwing Down the Pogie

Nov 12, 2021Nov 11, 2021HTBS

The Fitzwilliam Museum: Where the Lion lies down with the Ox*

Nov 6, 2021Nov 23, 2021HTBS

Time to Grow a Mo!

Oct 18, 2021Oct 17, 2021HTBS

Champions Return to the Championship Course

Sep 28, 2021Sep 28, 2021HTBS

A Golden Age Captured in Monochrome

Aug 27, 2021Aug 26, 2021HTBS

News from Cambridge

Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021 – Part 3

Aug 18, 2021Aug 18, 2021HTBS

Henley Finals Day 2021 – Part 2

Jul 23, 2021Sep 29, 2021HTBS

The 1908 Olympic Games – Part III

Jul 21, 2021Jul 21, 2021HTBS

The 1908 Olympic Games – Part I

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021HTBS

Boating the Blues

May 3, 2021May 4, 2021HTBS

Bumped Off

Apr 21, 2021Apr 20, 2021HTBS

Rowing History’s Baker Street Irregulars

Apr 10, 2021Apr 10, 2021HTBS

2021 Boat Races Revisited

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

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

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

Mar 29, 2021Mar 28, 2021HTBS

Two’s A Crowd…

Mar 27, 2021Mar 26, 2021HTBS

Yes, But What Do They Actually Do?

Mar 26, 2021Mar 25, 2021HTBS

In Ely-sian Fields

Mar 25, 2021Jul 25, 2021HTBS

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

Mar 23, 2021Mar 22, 2021HTBS

Alf: The Twinn Who Was One Of A Kind

Mar 15, 2021Mar 14, 2021HTBS

Charles Merivale: Looking Down On The 2021 Boat Race

Mar 5, 2021Mar 5, 2021HTBS

Frivolously Friday: Cambridge, 1898

Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021HTBS

Throwback Thursday: Oxford 1912

Feb 17, 2021Feb 16, 2021HTBS

Muttle’s Volte-Face

Jan 14, 2021Jan 20, 2021HTBS

Bill Windham, RIP: A Great Oarsman

Jan 9, 2021Jan 8, 2021HTBS

CUBC 1939: Cissies who Laughed Last…

Jan 1, 2021Dec 31, 2020HTBS

I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Bl-Ouse*

Dec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020HTBS

Ouse-ing with Talent: The 2021 Boat Race Trials

Dec 26, 2020Dec 24, 2020HTBS

No Humbug: The Spirit of The Boat Race Yet to Come

Dec 21, 2020Dec 20, 2020HTBS

The First Oxbridge Women’s Boat Race: Emulating the Pale (and Dark) Blue Lords of Creation

Dec 8, 2020Dec 8, 2020HTBS

Rowing Books for Christmas II

Dec 5, 2020Dec 4, 2020HTBS

It’s A Date

Nov 28, 2020Nov 28, 2020HTBS

Laid Back 

Nov 27, 2020Nov 26, 2020HTBS

The 2021 Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race: E to L

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