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Aug 12, 2020Sep 13, 2020HTBS

Sportswriters and Rowing Correspondents

Aug 6, 2020Aug 6, 2020HTBS

Daniel Spring: My Henley Medal

Jun 30, 2020Jun 29, 2020HTBS

Fair Games

May 28, 2020Jul 26, 2020HTBS

The Literate and Rowing Lewises – II

May 25, 2020May 24, 2020HTBS

Fixed Seat Reading III: Thames and Tyne Tideways

Apr 24, 2020Apr 23, 2020HTBS

May Time II

Apr 9, 2020Apr 9, 2020HTBS

John Hall-Craggs, 1931 – 2020: A quiet man who got things done

Dec 12, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part IV – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Dec 11, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part III – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Oct 9, 2019Nov 17, 2021HTBS

James Gobbo: President of OUBC – But Not of Australia

Feb 15, 2019Sep 4, 2024HTBS

RRM@21 – 2: Friends of Rowing History

Jun 13, 2018Jun 12, 2018HTBS

Leander: Marking the Beginnings of Its Success

May 4, 2018May 4, 2018HTBS

Leander Genuflects for 200 Years and Counting

Apr 11, 2018Apr 12, 2018HTBS

Rebels on the River – Part II

Dec 18, 2017Dec 21, 2017HTBS

The Rule of a ‘Click’: The End of Writing on Rowing? – Part I

Oct 17, 2017Oct 17, 2017HTBS

Geek Special: The Ups and Downs of the Sliding Rigger

Jul 6, 2017Jul 5, 2019HTBS

The 1960 Boat Race: Oxford’s Adrian Stokes’s Rare Footage

Jun 9, 2017Jun 9, 2017HTBS

The Rowing Flemings – Part II: The Man with the Golden Oar

May 15, 2017May 16, 2017HTBS

Kelly-on-Thames, Part 1: The Patriarch

May 8, 2017May 20, 2017HTBS

Peter Coni: Turning Over An Old Leaf

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016HTBS

The 1956 Winning Letter

Feb 25, 2016Jun 23, 2016HTBS

A Look Back at Newspapers of Old and their Rowing Correspondents

Nov 16, 2015Nov 16, 2015HTBS

The 2015 Wingfield Sculls: Champions All

Sep 24, 2015Feb 15, 2016HTBS

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

Apr 16, 2015Apr 14, 2015HTBS

Rowers Worth a Movie?

Nov 25, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The Big Man’s Boat

Nov 21, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Time for ‘Jack & Ran’?

Oct 7, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Tim Koch: Wingfields – The Race of Champions

Aug 10, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

‘Bert And Dickie’: Drama Or Farce?

Aug 9, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

9 August 1948: The Final Day At The Olympic Rowing Regatta In Henley

Jul 24, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Bert And Dickie And Jack

Jul 13, 2012Jul 13, 2012Ellen

Peter And Dickie

Jun 8, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

‘Bert’ Proud Torch Runner

May 20, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Bert And Dickie – Going For Gold

May 19, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Chris Dodd On Bert And Dickie, 1948

May 11, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Swing Together

Apr 13, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

A "Bert And Dickie" Update

Mar 26, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

New Exhibits At The River & Rowing Museum

Feb 28, 2012Feb 24, 2025Ellen

The Burnell-Perry Thames Dinghy; Or With Cerise Coloured Blades In Connecticut

Feb 19, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Bert Bushnell: "I was a bloody nuisance"

Feb 11, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

National Rowing Hall of Fame Events on 9 & 10 March 2012

Aug 16, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Bert And Dickie On The Water

Aug 12, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

"Bert And Dickie" – Take Two!

Aug 10, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Bert And Dickie Make The Small Screen

Jan 7, 2011Jan 7, 2011Ellen

Who Will Win The Boat Race?

Jan 20, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Bert Bushnell Dies at 88

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