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Tag: Eton

Apr 6, 2021Apr 8, 2021HTBS

Keep it in the Family

Feb 17, 2021Feb 16, 2021HTBS

Muttle’s Volte-Face

Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021HTBS

The College Oarsmen who Helped Save the Sterling

Jan 12, 2021Jan 12, 2021HTBS

Dick, Gray, Eton, Freddy, Steve and two Elliotts: Or Never Judge an Oarsman

Jan 7, 2021Jan 6, 2021HTBS

The Cerebral Giant

Jan 4, 2021Jan 3, 2021HTBS

The Burnell Albums

Dec 14, 2020Dec 13, 2020HTBS

In Living Colour

Oct 28, 2020Oct 27, 2020HTBS

George Orwell: Books, Berks and Boaters

Oct 12, 2020Oct 11, 2020HTBS

The Waterloo Veterans Who Rowed to London

Jul 5, 2020Jul 5, 2020HTBS

HRR 2020: Not Rowed Out

Jun 5, 2020Jun 21, 2020HTBS

The Rowing Memsahibs of Naini Tal

May 26, 2020Jun 25, 2020HTBS

The Long and the Short Of It

May 14, 2020May 13, 2020HTBS

May Time III:I From Tubby to Piggy

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020HTBS

Henley 1945: ‘A brief period of rejoicing’

Apr 24, 2020Apr 24, 2020HTBS

General Sir George Higginson: An Aquatic Postscript

Apr 24, 2020Apr 23, 2020HTBS

May Time II

Apr 3, 2020Apr 2, 2020HTBS

May Time I

Feb 28, 2020Feb 27, 2020HTBS

Dennis Menaces Boat Race Fixtures

Dec 11, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part III – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Dec 10, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part II – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Aug 14, 2019Aug 13, 2019HTBS

The Fourth At Eton: Swinging In The Rain

Jul 29, 2019Jul 28, 2019HTBS

Images of Henley 2019: The Deciding Day (Student and Junior Events) 

Jul 24, 2019Jul 24, 2019HTBS

Images of Henley 2019: Semi Saturday

Jul 3, 2019Jul 2, 2019HTBS

Henley Royal Regatta 2019: Checked and Approved

Jun 17, 2019Jun 16, 2019HTBS

When Keble Went Head

Jun 6, 2019Jun 5, 2019HTBS

Kruck’s Rowing Technique

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019HTBS

Picture Post: More From The HTBS Photo Archive

Apr 22, 2019Apr 21, 2019HTBS

Bevis Sanford: 1939 Light Blues Stroke Dies

Apr 5, 2019Apr 5, 2019HTBS

Looking Forward To The Boat Race?

Mar 20, 2019Aug 24, 2019HTBS

1829: A Letter Means So Much

Mar 13, 2019Mar 10, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: A Decade of Decisive Moments

Feb 27, 2019Feb 27, 2019HTBS

F. S. Kelly: A Virtuoso at the Oars and the Piano

Nov 17, 2018Nov 16, 2018HTBS

The Armistice Centenary: Some Eclectic Postscripts

Jul 15, 2018Jul 15, 2018HTBS

Young Henley: Student, School and Junior Finals

Jul 6, 2018Jul 6, 2018HTBS

Henley Thursday: Shirt Sleeve Order

Jul 5, 2018Jul 5, 2018HTBS

Henley Wednesday: Form on the 4th of July

Jul 4, 2018Jul 3, 2018HTBS

Henley: HTBS Checked

Mar 15, 2018Mar 14, 2018HTBS

Head-to-Head-to-Head-to-Head

Jan 12, 2018Jan 12, 2018HTBS

The Rowers Conference

Nov 27, 2017Nov 27, 2017HTBS

Historians, Poets and Painters: All in the same boat?

Oct 25, 2017Oct 25, 2017HTBS

Rowing Trophy Makes A Homecoming After 140 Years

Aug 2, 2017Aug 2, 2017HTBS

Some Images of Eton in Words and Pictures

Jul 6, 2017Jul 5, 2019HTBS

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

Jul 2, 2017Jul 1, 2017HTBS

Henley Royal Regatta: Semi Saturday

Jul 1, 2017Jul 1, 2017HTBS

Henley’s Third Day: Halfway There

Jun 27, 2017Jun 26, 2017HTBS

The Sixties Swinger

Jun 5, 2017Jun 4, 2017HTBS

The Met: Open To The World Since 1866

Apr 25, 2017Apr 24, 2017HTBS

The Fallen Are Not Forgotten

Feb 1, 2017Feb 1, 2017HTBS

Part III: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate

Jan 30, 2017Jan 29, 2017HTBS

Part I: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate

Jan 14, 2017Jan 14, 2017HTBS

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

Sep 29, 2016Sep 30, 2016HTBS

Guardsmen In A Row, Part II: The Brigade of Guards Boat Club

Aug 19, 2016Aug 19, 2016HTBS

Douglas ‘Ducker’ McLean

Jul 27, 2016Jul 26, 2016HTBS

What are the Origins of the Modern Sport of Rowing?

Jul 13, 2016Jul 12, 2016HTBS

Henley 2016 Finals: Part III, Club and Junior Events

Jul 2, 2016Jul 2, 2016HTBS

Henley 2016: That Friday Feeling

Mar 5, 2016Mar 5, 2016HTBS

A Reappraisal of the Importance of the River Lea

Nov 12, 2015Nov 10, 2015HTBS

Most Conspicuous Bravery

Nov 8, 2015Nov 8, 2015HTBS

Etona Non Immemor*

Jul 2, 2015Jul 5, 2015HTBS

Warming Up: The Opening Day At Henley

Aug 6, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

A Victorian Ladder: Eton College at Henley

Apr 11, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Vandals In Subfusc?*

Dec 20, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Toad, Tom, Jack and Billy!

Jun 5, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Tim Koch On The 2011 Eton’s Procession Of Boats

May 30, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Rowing Photographs Of Eton Boys

Feb 14, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

George Sims Was The Winner In 1947

Jun 6, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

The Bournes: 5 – Carring The Family Tradition

Jun 5, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

The Bournes: 4 – ‘Beja’, The Old Master Coach

Jun 4, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

The Bournes: 3 – The Theoretical Coach

May 11, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Etonians And Their ‘Boaters’

May 10, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

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