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3 days ago Jan 1, 2026Jan 2, 2026HTBS

HTBS Numbers For 2025

2 weeks ago Dec 21, 2025Dec 21, 2025HTBS

Rowing Books for Christmas 2025, Part III

Dec 17, 2025Dec 18, 2025HTBS

Rowing Books for Christmas 2025, Part II

Dec 15, 2025Dec 14, 2025HTBS

Rowing Books for Christmas 2025, Part I

Dec 6, 2025Jan 1, 2026HTBS

Jack Beresford’s Berlin Album Part II

Sep 24, 2025Sep 24, 2025HTBS

RIP RRM

Sep 22, 2025Sep 21, 2025HTBS

Journey’s End

Jul 25, 2025Jul 24, 2025HTBS

OUBC’s Performance Review: Horse Or Camel?

Apr 13, 2025Apr 13, 2025HTBS

Tim Koch: I’m Not Behind The Times

Mar 4, 2025Mar 3, 2025HTBS

Rhythm and Feuds

Feb 27, 2025Feb 26, 2025HTBS

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

Feb 23, 2025Feb 22, 2025HTBS

HOSR Story Hour: Celebrating Thomas E. Weil

Jan 1, 2025Jan 5, 2025HTBS

HTBS in 2024

Dec 30, 2024Dec 31, 2024HTBS

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

Dec 13, 2024Dec 12, 2024HTBS

Books for 2024 Christmas II

Dec 12, 2024Dec 11, 2024HTBS

Books for 2024 Christmas I

Nov 22, 2024Nov 22, 2024HTBS

The Importance of Losing

Oct 10, 2024Oct 9, 2024HTBS

Weil’s Within Wheels: A Collector Extraordinaire

Sep 29, 2024Sep 29, 2024HTBS

Standing on Shoulders of Fate…

Sep 17, 2024Sep 23, 2024HTBS

New Novel: News Fit To Print – Sleuthing and Sliding

Sep 12, 2024Sep 12, 2024HTBS

Tom E. Weil – The Great Benefactor of Rowing

Jul 18, 2024Jul 18, 2024HTBS

A Hoot at Henley

Jul 12, 2024Jul 15, 2024HTBS

Henley 2024: The Open Finals

May 30, 2024May 29, 2024HTBS

The Coombes Monument: Four Heads Are Better Than None

May 7, 2024May 7, 2024HTBS

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

Apr 22, 2024Apr 21, 2024HTBS

Pocock’s Progress

Apr 8, 2024Apr 7, 2024HTBS

Rhythm and Blues

Mar 20, 2024Mar 20, 2024HTBS

An Evening with Lord Desborough at Hatchards

Mar 19, 2024Mar 18, 2024HTBS

The Titan Who Ran Rings Round Olympia

Mar 12, 2024Mar 11, 2024HTBS

The HTBS Quindecennial

Feb 21, 2024Feb 20, 2024HTBS

The Home On Finches Field

Feb 13, 2024Feb 14, 2024HTBS

Weigh more!

Jan 1, 2024Jan 3, 2024HTBS

HTBS in 2023

Dec 1, 2023Nov 30, 2023HTBS

“Dear Lucy & Jim” – A George Pocock Letter from Berlin, 1936

Nov 29, 2023Nov 28, 2023HTBS

Blues Funk Part II

Nov 28, 2023Nov 29, 2023HTBS

Blues Funk Part I

Nov 13, 2023Nov 26, 2023HTBS

Book Review: The Greatest Rowing Stories Ever Told

Oct 23, 2023Oct 22, 2023HTBS

Rowing’s Maverick Global Coach

Oct 6, 2023Oct 5, 2023HTBS

Pocock Plaquery

Oct 2, 2023Oct 11, 2023HTBS

“The Greatest Rowing Stories Ever Told” Is Out Today

Aug 30, 2023Aug 30, 2023HTBS

Hoo’s There?

Aug 2, 2023Aug 1, 2023HTBS

Lucerne’s Got-To-See: The Göttersee

Jul 26, 2023Jul 25, 2023HTBS

Henley 2023: The Final Finals

Jul 21, 2023Jul 20, 2023HTBS

Derek Malcolm: Infamous Cox, Famous Critic

Apr 26, 2023Apr 26, 2023HTBS

Peter Spurrier – The Dean of Rowing Imagery

Apr 11, 2023Apr 10, 2023HTBS

Maltese Cross Oars

Apr 2, 2023Apr 2, 2023HTBS

P to M On Couch And Box

Mar 23, 2023Mar 22, 2023HTBS

Following The Boat Races Through The Years

Mar 2, 2023Jun 2, 2023HTBS

The Greatest Rowing Stories

Feb 21, 2023Feb 21, 2023HTBS

May Time V

Feb 2, 2023Feb 1, 2023HTBS

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

Jan 30, 2023Jan 30, 2023HTBS

In The Wake Of The Stewards

Jan 27, 2023Jan 26, 2023HTBS

Chris Medals

Jan 18, 2023Jan 18, 2023HTBS

A Peer Stranger Than Fiction

Jan 11, 2023Jan 10, 2023HTBS

Alan Burrough: Gin and Bear It

Jan 1, 2023Dec 31, 2023HTBS

The 2022 HTBS Numbers

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 18, 2022Nov 21, 2022HTBS

Rowing in Verse and Worse 

Nov 15, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Pocock 8: Searching for Your You of You’s…

Nov 14, 2022Nov 14, 2022HTBS

Rowing is a Funny Old Game

Oct 9, 2022Oct 11, 2022HTBS

Eamonn McCabe: Three Lives Through The Lens

Aug 15, 2022Aug 15, 2022HTBS

The 2022 European Rowing Championships: In the Wake of History

Jul 21, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Pocock 7: Golden Gateway to Helsinki

Jul 16, 2022Jul 16, 2022HTBS

The Red Lake or the Lake of the Gods

Jul 15, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Pocock: Playing at Home

Jul 11, 2022Jul 11, 2022HTBS

Smoke and Mirrors at the Royal Regatta

Jul 3, 2022Jul 3, 2022HTBS

Henley’s Semi-Saturday

May 26, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Pocock in Berlin: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022HTBS

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

Apr 9, 2022Apr 9, 2022HTBS

The Boat Race Comes Home

Mar 29, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Rowing Boeing

Mar 15, 2022Mar 14, 2022HTBS

Hadaway Harry Will Return

Mar 14, 2022Mar 13, 2022HTBS

Invention: One Mother (Necessity) But Many Fathers

Mar 7, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Gordon Bennett!*

Feb 24, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Messing about on the River

Feb 17, 2022Feb 16, 2022HTBS

It’s a Great Art

Feb 16, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

The Wisdom of Pocock

Feb 11, 2022Feb 11, 2022HTBS

Barnes Bridge: In Life, Sport and Art

Jan 5, 2022Jan 5, 2022HTBS

A Star in the East

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