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Tag: Chris Dodd

May 27, 2017May 27, 2017HTBS

Wherries and Ferries Against the Tide

May 19, 2017May 18, 2017HTBS

The Swiss Joke

May 18, 2017May 18, 2017HTBS

More Kellys: Grace and Favours

May 8, 2017May 20, 2017HTBS

Peter Coni: Turning Over An Old Leaf

Apr 10, 2017Apr 9, 2017HTBS

The Boat Races Revisited

Apr 9, 2017Apr 9, 2017HTBS

Pictures of Match Race Men (and Women): Part II

Apr 7, 2017Apr 6, 2017HTBS

“J. Hopper” is Donated to the River and Rowing Museum

Apr 4, 2017Apr 6, 2017HTBS

Boat Race Day: plus ça change…

Apr 3, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Battles of Blues from the Couch

Apr 1, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Blue Moods

Mar 18, 2017Mar 16, 2017HTBS

Remembering Guinness on St Patrick’s Day

Mar 12, 2017Mar 11, 2017HTBS

HTBS Turns 8 – Good Grief!

Feb 20, 2017Feb 20, 2017HTBS

Hadaway Harry: The Knot Retied

Jan 16, 2017Jan 15, 2017HTBS

“Hadaway Harry” is Coming to Putney

Jan 14, 2017Jan 14, 2017HTBS

Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 1930-2017

Dec 15, 2016Dec 14, 2016HTBS

Henley Royal Regatta 2017: The Thicker End of John Garton’s Wedge?

Dec 6, 2016Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Oxford’s Trial By Tideway: The Men’s Race

Oct 31, 2016Nov 7, 2016HTBS

Richmond-upon-Thames, Part I: A Reminder of the Golden Age of Boating

Oct 6, 2016Mar 30, 2023HTBS

Fantastic Mr Fox and His Relatives*

Sep 14, 2016Sep 12, 2016HTBS

The Thames Finds a Champion

Sep 5, 2016Sep 4, 2016HTBS

HQ to Publish Biography of Jürgen Gröbler

Aug 11, 2016Aug 10, 2016HTBS

Getting the Cox Wet

Jul 26, 2016Jul 25, 2016HTBS

What a Rowing Tie Will Tell

Jul 18, 2016Jul 17, 2016HTBS

Regatta Remnants

Jul 12, 2016Jul 12, 2016HTBS

Henley the First

Jul 2, 2016Jul 2, 2016HTBS

Henley 2016: That Friday Feeling

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016HTBS

The 1956 Winning Letter

May 7, 2016May 6, 2016HTBS

Survival of the Fattest

Apr 7, 2016Apr 9, 2016HTBS

Men’s Vanity, or A Swedish Rowing Club Decks Out Its Members

Apr 6, 2016Apr 5, 2016HTBS

The 2016 Boat Races on HTBS

Apr 3, 2016Apr 3, 2016HTBS

New Website Celebrates the Great Harry Clasper

Apr 1, 2016Apr 1, 2016HTBS

The BBC’s Boat Race Broadcast: Credit where it’s Due

Mar 30, 2016Mar 30, 2016HTBS

The 1976 Oxford Record Crew

Mar 27, 2016Mar 27, 2016HTBS

Cambridge by a Smile

Mar 23, 2016Mar 23, 2016HTBS

Countdown to The Boat Races: It’s Tideway Week

Mar 22, 2016Mar 22, 2016HTBS

Breeding Racehorses

Mar 5, 2016Mar 5, 2016HTBS

A Reappraisal of the Importance of the River Lea

Mar 3, 2016Mar 4, 2016HTBS

‘You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat’*: The 2016 Boat Race Weigh-in

Mar 2, 2016Mar 1, 2016HTBS

A Good Steer on the Tideway

Feb 25, 2016Jun 23, 2016HTBS

A Look Back at Newspapers of Old and their Rowing Correspondents

Feb 24, 2016Feb 25, 2016HTBS

Rowing Through the Lens

Jan 31, 2016Jan 31, 2016HTBS

The Swell of the Oceans

Dec 18, 2015Dec 17, 2015HTBS

Welcome to HTBS, Chris!

Dec 15, 2015Dec 14, 2015HTBS

Cox and Box on the Tideway

Nov 16, 2015Nov 16, 2015HTBS

The 2015 Wingfield Sculls: Champions All

Nov 6, 2015Nov 6, 2015HTBS

Giving Berth: A Review of “Unto the Tideway Born”

Oct 29, 2015Oct 29, 2015HTBS

BBC Documentary on Harry Clasper

Sep 24, 2015Feb 15, 2016HTBS

“1895: ‘The Hall, the Hall, I Bawl the Hall’”

Sep 23, 2015Sep 23, 2015HTBS

On Jock Wise

Sep 17, 2015Dec 24, 2016HTBS

The Mystery with the Sid Radley-built “J. Hopper”

Sep 16, 2015Sep 17, 2015HTBS

A Farce on his Face

Sep 1, 2015May 17, 2017HTBS

A Regatta to Di for

Aug 11, 2015Aug 12, 2015HTBS

Mutiny on the Cards

Aug 2, 2015Aug 1, 2015HTBS

The Art of Rowing

Aug 1, 2015Aug 1, 2015HTBS

Coat, Book and Badge

Jul 20, 2015Jul 19, 2015HTBS

Edgar the Peaceful: King, Saint and Coxswain

Jul 17, 2015Jul 16, 2015HTBS

A Howell of Praise

Jul 14, 2015Jul 14, 2015HTBS

Hadaway Harry and Doggett have their day

Jul 5, 2015Jul 5, 2015HTBS

40 years back – ‘Maybe we have champagne and beefsteak’

Jul 1, 2015Jul 1, 2015HTBS

Dan the Man

May 31, 2015May 31, 2015HTBS

Brasenose Won with more than a Nose…

Apr 17, 2015Apr 20, 2015HTBS

Dark Blue Day Revisited

Apr 10, 2015Apr 10, 2015HTBS

Rising Tide of Gender Opportunity

Mar 21, 2015Mar 20, 2015HTBS

Down Memorial Lanes – Davidge’s Row Through Life

Feb 28, 2015Feb 27, 2015HTBS

More Tributes To Dan

Feb 23, 2015Feb 23, 2015HTBS

Dan Topolski, 1945 – 2015

Feb 21, 2015Feb 20, 2015HTBS

Thriller in Manila

Nov 9, 2014Nov 10, 2014HTBS

Downfall of Rowing’s Master Class

Oct 28, 2014Oct 27, 2014HTBS

1977: The Piquancy of Rumour on the Bosbaan

Feb 18, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

The Glittering Prize

Feb 17, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

A Trophy Worthy of the Chase

Jan 21, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Giving It Some Welly*: The 2014 Oxford Trial Eights



Oct 9, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Lowry’s Grim Fairy Tale

Mar 27, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The ‘Other Boat Races’

Dec 10, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Greg Denieffe: Jack Beresford – The Early Years, Part 1

Oct 1, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Henley Literary Festival 2012

Sep 22, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Dodd and Searle Holding Court

Aug 24, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Glide along like a Swan

Aug 10, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

‘Bert And Dickie’: Drama Or Farce?

Aug 8, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Rowing And Politics, A Good Mix?

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