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Dec 1, 2025Dec 1, 2025HTBS

Utter Madness!

Mar 28, 2024Mar 27, 2024HTBS

The Head of the River Race: Relieving Winter Boredom Since 1926

Jun 19, 2023Jun 19, 2023HTBS

Princeton Lightweight Women – A Study in Courage to the End

Jan 30, 2023Jan 30, 2023HTBS

In The Wake Of The Stewards

Aug 6, 2022Aug 5, 2022HTBS

Rowing on Point – The Art of Georges Seurat

Aug 3, 2022Aug 2, 2022HTBS

Irish Rowing in New London

Jul 22, 2022Jul 21, 2022HTBS

The North West International Rowing Association Regatta

Jul 18, 2022Jul 17, 2022HTBS

Hot Doggetts

Jul 11, 2022Jul 11, 2022HTBS

Smoke and Mirrors at the Royal Regatta

Jul 1, 2022Jun 30, 2022HTBS

The Naulahka Story

Jun 29, 2022Jun 29, 2022HTBS

Henley Tuesday: Back to 3 BC (Before COVID)

Jun 28, 2022Jun 28, 2022HTBS

Henley Royal Regatta – Not As Good As It Was Since 1840

Jun 21, 2022Jun 20, 2022HTBS

Annual Rainbow Logo Challenge

Jun 18, 2022Jun 17, 2022HTBS

Winemaker and Oarsman Josh Jensen Dies at 78

May 28, 2022May 27, 2022HTBS

An Unholy Amalgam of Disparate Prints

May 16, 2022May 15, 2022HTBS

World Championships will take place in Račice in September

Apr 30, 2022Apr 29, 2022HTBS

The 2022 World Rowing Under 19 & Under 23 Championships Are Confirmed

Mar 26, 2022Mar 25, 2022HTBS

The Race of a Thousand Oarsmen – All With Shiny Shoes

Mar 16, 2022Mar 15, 2022HTBS

The Starting Bay

Mar 11, 2022Mar 10, 2022HTBS

The Return of the Doc Riggall

Jan 20, 2022Jan 19, 2022HTBS

Winning in Style: The Oxford Women’s Trial Eights

Jan 1, 2022Jan 16, 2022HTBS

New Year’s Letter

Dec 24, 2021Dec 23, 2021HTBS

Row-Ho-Ho*

Dec 21, 2021Dec 20, 2021HTBS

Eighteen Into Nine Won’t Go: The Oxford Men’s Trial Eights

Dec 18, 2021Dec 17, 2021HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Trials: Keeping in the Stream

Dec 7, 2021Dec 17, 2021HTBS

Dutch Rowing Federation Re-Shuffles

Dec 4, 2021Dec 3, 2021HTBS

Indoor Rowing: Jönköping Cancels and Hamburg goes Fully Virtual

Dec 2, 2021Dec 1, 2021HTBS

Rowing Paintings on Display

Nov 19, 2021Nov 18, 2021HTBS

An Award to River & Rowing Museum will Help it to be a ‘Hub for the Community’

Nov 4, 2021Nov 3, 2021HTBS

Last Chance to Nominate the Best for 2021

Oct 20, 2021Oct 19, 2021HTBS

2021 Head of the Charles Regatta

Oct 18, 2021Oct 17, 2021HTBS

Champions Return to the Championship Course

Oct 8, 2021Oct 7, 2021HTBS

2021 European Rowing Junior Championships

Sep 16, 2021Sep 16, 2021HTBS

Beach Sprint and Coastal World Championships in Oeiras

Sep 15, 2021Sep 14, 2021HTBS

2021 Gold Cup Series Cancelled

Sep 14, 2021Sep 13, 2021HTBS

Head-ing in the Right Direction

Sep 13, 2021Sep 13, 2021HTBS

Rowing Sculpture Installed at Trent

Sep 6, 2021Sep 5, 2021HTBS

Home Thoughts from Abroad

Aug 27, 2021Aug 26, 2021HTBS

News from Cambridge

Aug 26, 2021Aug 26, 2021HTBS

Doggett’s 2021: In the Wake of John Opey

Aug 24, 2021Aug 24, 2021HTBS

Dear Sir Steve, please follow the mantra…

Aug 21, 2021Mar 18, 2022HTBS

Three Great Geordie Heroes

Aug 20, 2021Dec 17, 2021HTBS

Jurgen Grobler – Aquatic Enigma

Aug 12, 2021Aug 13, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021: Late on the Start but Ready to Race

Aug 11, 2021Aug 13, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021: Keep Calm and Row On

Aug 7, 2021Aug 7, 2021HTBS

Coupe de la Jeunesse

Aug 5, 2021Aug 5, 2021HTBS

Soon Time for the World Rowing Junior Championships

Jul 30, 2021Aug 13, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021: The Same But Different

Jul 21, 2021Jul 21, 2021HTBS

Gomen kudasai*

Jul 20, 2021Jul 20, 2021HTBS

Good Friday

Jul 19, 2021Jul 18, 2021HTBS

GB’s Rowers Road to Tokyo

Jul 10, 2021Jul 9, 2021HTBS

2021 World Rowing Masters Regatta Cancelled

Jul 3, 2021Jul 2, 2021HTBS

2021 Henley Women’s Regatta

Jun 30, 2021Jun 29, 2021HTBS

2021 World Rowing Sustainability Award

Jun 29, 2021Jun 28, 2021HTBS

The Rivers Come Alive

Jun 23, 2021Jun 23, 2021HTBS

D-Day, 25 June

Jun 23, 2021Jun 23, 2021HTBS

OG 1960: When Men Rowed Wood

Jun 17, 2021Jun 16, 2021HTBS

Record Numbers Go to the Olympic Rowing

Jun 16, 2021Jun 16, 2021HTBS

Fund for Working with Young People

May 31, 2021May 30, 2021HTBS

Pulling Their Weight

May 25, 2021May 25, 2021HTBS

Finally, One Victory for Oxford

May 15, 2021May 15, 2021HTBS

Last Road to Tokyo

May 14, 2021May 14, 2021HTBS

Stanford Sued by Athletes

May 13, 2021May 12, 2021HTBS

2021 World Junior Championships to Plovdid

May 11, 2021May 10, 2021HTBS

Oxbridge Lightweights to Resume their Rivalry

May 8, 2021May 7, 2021HTBS

The Sport of Rowing – Now on World Rowing

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021HTBS

Not Without Some Snags

May 6, 2021May 5, 2021HTBS

Marist College Offers New Online Rowing Exhibit

May 4, 2021May 3, 2021HTBS

Masters Regatta Decision Delayed

May 3, 2021May 4, 2021HTBS

Bumped Off

May 1, 2021Jul 31, 2024HTBS

Italian Rower Filippo Mondelli Dies

Apr 29, 2021Apr 29, 2021HTBS

Like Water Under A Troubled Bridge?*

Apr 26, 2021Apr 25, 2021HTBS

Fighting for Women’s Rowing at UConn

Apr 22, 2021Apr 21, 2021HTBS

A Study in Scarlet

Apr 16, 2021Apr 15, 2021HTBS

Doggett’s 306: Third Time Lucky?

Apr 15, 2021Apr 14, 2021HTBS

Thames Festival Trust Receives Grant from Culture Recovery Fund

Apr 11, 2021Aug 15, 2021HTBS

Good Signs…

Apr 10, 2021Apr 10, 2021HTBS

Three Cases of COVID at the European Championships

Apr 7, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

A Silver Lining for a Blue Cloud?

Apr 5, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

Cambridge Hone Home Waters Their Way

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