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Jan 1, 2026Jan 2, 2026HTBS

HTBS Numbers For 2025

Mar 12, 2025Mar 11, 2025HTBS

Oh, Hell, Another Birthday

Jan 1, 2025Jan 5, 2025HTBS

HTBS in 2024

Dec 17, 2024Dec 16, 2024HTBS

This Again About Twitter

Dec 9, 2024Dec 17, 2024HTBS

Farewell X

Oct 10, 2024Oct 9, 2024HTBS

Weil’s Within Wheels: A Collector Extraordinaire

Sep 12, 2024Sep 12, 2024HTBS

Tom E. Weil – The Great Benefactor of Rowing

Mar 12, 2024Mar 11, 2024HTBS

The HTBS Quindecennial

Feb 28, 2024Feb 28, 2024HTBS

The HTBS Lunch @15: Final Call

Feb 16, 2024Feb 25, 2024HTBS

HTBS@15: Lunch Is Served

Jan 12, 2024Jan 11, 2024HTBS

HTBS@15: The Quindecennial Luncheon

Jan 1, 2024Jan 3, 2024HTBS

HTBS in 2023

Nov 13, 2023Nov 26, 2023HTBS

Book Review: The Greatest Rowing Stories Ever Told

Aug 8, 2023Dec 10, 2024HTBS

Book Review: Gavin Jamieson’s “Water’s Gleaming Gold”

Mar 30, 2023Apr 2, 2023HTBS

Adrian M. – Hello!

Feb 19, 2023Feb 18, 2023HTBS

Preserving the History of Rowing, its People and Places 

Jan 1, 2023Dec 31, 2023HTBS

The 2022 HTBS Numbers

Jul 11, 2022Jul 11, 2022HTBS

Smoke and Mirrors at the Royal Regatta

Apr 15, 2022Apr 15, 2022HTBS

Philip Kuepper: “Poetry wouldn’t leave me alone”

Jan 1, 2022Jan 16, 2022HTBS

New Year’s Letter

Dec 24, 2021Dec 23, 2021HTBS

Row-Ho-Ho*

Dec 23, 2021Dec 22, 2021HTBS

Elephantastic: The HTBS Christmas Caption Competition Winners

Dec 21, 2021Dec 20, 2021HTBS

Reminder: Last Day for HTBS Christmas Caption Competition

Dec 13, 2021Dec 12, 2021HTBS

The HTBS Christmas Caption Competition

Dec 1, 2021Dec 1, 2021HTBS

Thank You for Reading HTBS

Apr 13, 2021Apr 13, 2021HTBS

RIP Louis Petrin

Mar 22, 2021Mar 22, 2021HTBS

The Winner Takes It All

Mar 13, 2021Mar 16, 2021HTBS

The Crew That Makes The Boat Sing

Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021HTBS

12 March 2009 – Still Blogging…

Dec 31, 2020Dec 31, 2020HTBS

2020 – Annus Horribilis: HTBS in the Numbers

Dec 24, 2020Dec 23, 2020HTBS

2020: A Year Like No Other

Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020HTBS

The Importance of Weil, Thomas E.

Nov 26, 2020Nov 25, 2020HTBS

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 7, 2020Nov 6, 2020HTBS

Technical Issues Reading HTBS on your Phone?

Oct 7, 2020Oct 6, 2020HTBS

Reader’s Question: The Five ‘W’s and One ‘H’

Oct 1, 2020Sep 30, 2020HTBS

Going Into Idleness

Jul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020HTBS

Chris Dodd: A Few of my Favourite Things

Jun 14, 2020Jun 14, 2020HTBS

Your Comments…

May 1, 2020Jul 5, 2020HTBS

An Exclusive Interview with Vicky Thornley

Apr 2, 2020Apr 3, 2020HTBS

Poet’s Pub

Mar 31, 2020Mar 30, 2020HTBS

HTBS and the ‘C’ Word

Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020HTBS

UK Rowing Stops

Mar 12, 2020Mar 11, 2020HTBS

HTBS at 11: The Song Remains the Same

Dec 25, 2019Dec 23, 2019HTBS

Row, Ho, Ho

Nov 18, 2019Nov 18, 2019HTBS

Back To The Futures

Mar 26, 2019Mar 26, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: Not Wimping Out – The HTBS 10th Anniversary Lunch

Mar 13, 2019Mar 10, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: A Decade of Decisive Moments

Mar 12, 2019Mar 11, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: For HTBS Types… and Maybe Some Others

Feb 28, 2019Feb 28, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: Second Call For Lunch

Feb 15, 2019Sep 4, 2024HTBS

RRM@21 – 2: Friends of Rowing History

Feb 6, 2019Feb 28, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: Luncheon Is Served

Nov 7, 2018Nov 6, 2018HTBS

Time for Idleness

Oct 19, 2018Oct 19, 2018HTBS

Tom at 70!

Mar 12, 2018Mar 11, 2018HTBS

HTBS – at 9

Mar 5, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Boat Race Quiz: Blue Teasers

Dec 31, 2017Dec 30, 2017HTBS

HTBS by the Numbers

Dec 21, 2017Dec 20, 2017HTBS

BARJ Lives!

William O'Chee
Oct 18, 2017Oct 17, 2017HTBS

Welcome to HTBS, William!

Mar 12, 2017Mar 11, 2017HTBS

HTBS Turns 8 – Good Grief!

Dec 15, 2016Dec 14, 2016HTBS

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

Dec 5, 2016Dec 4, 2016HTBS

323 – and Counting…

Oct 20, 2016Oct 20, 2016HTBS

HTBS’s ‘Mystery Sculler’ – Take 3

Oct 19, 2016Oct 19, 2016HTBS

Regatta Programmes and HTBS’s Mystery Sculler

Oct 12, 2016Oct 11, 2016HTBS

The Mystery Sculler

Aug 4, 2016Aug 3, 2016HTBS

Will the Real ‘Mighty Atom’ Please Stand Up?

Aug 1, 2016Aug 1, 2016HTBS

Rowing through the Shit with Blinkers* on

Jun 13, 2016Jun 13, 2016HTBS

Drinking, Writing, Editing, Hemingway, Drinking…*

Jun 8, 2016Jun 8, 2016HTBS

HTBS Poet Philip Kuepper’s Second Book Signing

May 25, 2016May 25, 2016HTBS

HTBS is doing well!

May 18, 2016May 18, 2016HTBS

‘Rowing is a Metaphor for Life’

Mar 12, 2016Mar 12, 2016HTBS

HTBS Turns 7

Mar 12, 2015Mar 11, 2015HTBS

HTBS Celebrates 6 Years!

Mar 18, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

A Post From The Pub

Nov 20, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

How to Look Dashing!

Jan 28, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Regularly Postings, But Not Daily…

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