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Jun 16, 2025Jun 15, 2025HTBS

Hadaway Harry: Lessons of History, Barriers to Access and the Future of British Rowing – Part II

Apr 12, 2025Apr 14, 2025HTBS

Hadaway Harry: Lessons of History, Barriers to Access and the Future of British Rowing – Part I

May 8, 2024May 9, 2024HTBS

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

Jan 18, 2021Jan 17, 2021HTBS

St George Ashe, Part I: A Dragon Slayer?

Dec 26, 2020Dec 24, 2020HTBS

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

Nov 14, 2020Nov 13, 2020HTBS

Not the 1873 Boat Race

Jul 13, 2020Jul 13, 2020HTBS

Hibernian Brush Strokes

May 28, 2020Jul 26, 2020HTBS

The Literate and Rowing Lewises – II

Aug 27, 2019Sep 8, 2019HTBS

When The Crimson Met The Blue

May 30, 2019May 29, 2019HTBS

From Empire to Independence: Indian Rowing Reincarnated

May 28, 2018May 26, 2018HTBS

The Quiz – The Answers

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

Oct 30, 2017Oct 29, 2017HTBS

 Tales of Row

Jan 16, 2017Jan 15, 2017HTBS

“Hadaway Harry” is Coming to Putney

Aug 29, 2016Aug 29, 2016HTBS

Newly Admitted Watermen: Able to Commit Fornication or Contract Matrimony

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