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Sep 22, 2025Sep 21, 2025HTBS

Journey’s End

Jul 3, 2025Jul 3, 2025HTBS

The River & Rowing Museum Will Close in September

Oct 10, 2024Oct 9, 2024HTBS

Weil’s Within Wheels: A Collector Extraordinaire

Dec 16, 2023Dec 15, 2023HTBS

A Day At The Museum

Aug 25, 2023Aug 25, 2023HTBS

Tales Of The Riverbank

May 13, 2023May 12, 2023HTBS

Vasaorden – A Swedish Royal Row Boat

May 8, 2023May 7, 2023HTBS

The King’s Watermen: Duty Done

May 6, 2023May 6, 2023HTBS

Rowing: Still Not the Sport of Kings

Oct 13, 2022Oct 13, 2022HTBS

A Bright Idea: Reflections On The Royal River – Part 3

Oct 12, 2022Oct 12, 2022HTBS

A Bright Idea: Reflections On The Royal River – Part 2

Oct 11, 2022Oct 11, 2022HTBS

A Bright Idea: Reflections On The Royal River – Part 1

Oct 1, 2022Sep 28, 2022HTBS

Royal Watermen Give Their Final Service to The Queen

Sep 19, 2022Sep 18, 2022HTBS

London’s Two Rivers

Sep 12, 2022Sep 11, 2022HTBS

A Period of National Mourning

Sep 11, 2022Sep 10, 2022HTBS

Of Time, Thames-Robed

Sep 9, 2022Sep 8, 2022HTBS

Queen Elizabeth II

Jul 26, 2022Jul 31, 2022HTBS

Pictures From a Trip to the Trad

Jun 9, 2022Jun 8, 2022HTBS

Three Rowing Kiwis Honoured by the Queen

Jun 2, 2022Jun 2, 2022HTBS

At the Helm for 70 Years

May 12, 2022May 12, 2022HTBS

The Return of the Hyde Park Lancers

Feb 6, 2022Feb 5, 2022HTBS

The Queen’s Head

Jan 15, 2022Jan 14, 2022HTBS

English Boatbuilders are Building Boats for “The Boys” Movie

Jan 10, 2022Jan 12, 2022HTBS

R.I.P. Sidney Poitier

Apr 9, 2021Apr 9, 2021HTBS

HRH Prince Philip

Jan 21, 2021Jan 24, 2021HTBS

Bernie – The HTBS Meme

Nov 10, 2020Nov 10, 2020HTBS

The 13-Year-Old Boy with an Olympic Coxless Pairs Medal

Sep 12, 2020Sep 11, 2020HTBS

The 1950s River Thames – Free Shows

Apr 8, 2020Apr 7, 2020HTBS

The Idol of the Hour

Jan 9, 2020Jan 8, 2020HTBS

Medaling Through

Nov 29, 2019Nov 29, 2019HTBS

The Elliptical Orbiter 

Nov 18, 2019Nov 18, 2019HTBS

Back To The Futures

Aug 23, 2019Aug 22, 2019HTBS

History Meets Eccentricity: The 305th Doggett’s Coat and Badge

Mar 29, 2019Mar 29, 2019HTBS

RRM@21 – 14: Happy Birthday and Many Happy Returns

Mar 25, 2019Mar 23, 2019HTBS

RRM@21 – 13: When Rodney met Elizabeth…

Mar 22, 2019Mar 18, 2019HTBS

RRM@21 – 12: It’s all about Steve

Feb 25, 2019Feb 25, 2019HTBS

RRM@21 – 5: Chancing upon the Glass Casket

Oct 18, 2018Oct 18, 2018HTBS

The Leander in the Pink

Sep 12, 2018Sep 12, 2018HTBS

1958: Australia Goes to Europe – Part 2

Dec 27, 2017Dec 30, 2017HTBS

Backsplash: The Rowing History Conference – Talk by Peter Mallory, Part I

Jun 27, 2017Jun 26, 2017HTBS

The Sixties Swinger

Jun 26, 2017Jun 27, 2017HTBS

Eton’s Procession of Boats: History Rows Past

Apr 24, 2017Apr 23, 2017HTBS

Limbering Up

Apr 12, 2017Apr 11, 2017HTBS

Not the Boat Race!

Feb 6, 2017Feb 5, 2017HTBS

Politically Incorrect

Jan 14, 2017Jan 14, 2017HTBS

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

Jan 1, 2017Dec 31, 2016HTBS

From Gold to Grainger: Rowers Honoured

Oct 3, 2016Oct 3, 2016HTBS

Olympic Oarsman James Crowden Dies

Sep 28, 2016Dec 20, 2020HTBS

Guardsmen In A Row, Part I: On Parade

Jul 15, 2016Jul 14, 2016HTBS

The Darling Buds of May

Apr 21, 2016Apr 19, 2016HTBS

Happy Birthday Ma’am as in ham*

Sep 27, 2015Sep 26, 2015HTBS

Rowing to Runnymede: The River Relay for the Magna Carta 800th

Aug 21, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

A Royal Tea Cruise

Jun 17, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Dame Di Ellis: The First Lady of British Rowing

May 30, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

From Oarsmen to Boxmen

Jun 12, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

More On The Great Spectacle

Jun 4, 2012Jul 25, 2025Ellen

Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant

May 31, 2012May 31, 2012Ellen

Royal River Pageants In 1919 & 1953

May 18, 2012May 18, 2012Ellen

Captain JP On The Diamond Jubilee

Apr 19, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

‘Gloriana’ Launched

Jan 27, 2012Jan 27, 2012Ellen

Anything Is Possible!

Jan 26, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Tim Koch: Fit For A Queen

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