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Tag: Jumbo Edwards

Dec 30, 2025Jan 1, 2026HTBS

Jack Beresford: Winning Ways 1923-1939

Dec 15, 2025Dec 14, 2025HTBS

Rowing Books for Christmas 2025, Part I

Nov 5, 2025Nov 4, 2025HTBS

John Campbell Broadhurst – A Champion for Youth Rowing

Dec 30, 2024Dec 31, 2024HTBS

Penny Chuter: A Champion Coach Who Poled Punts, Shoved Skiffs and Sculled Shells

Dec 13, 2024Dec 12, 2024HTBS

Books for 2024 Christmas II

Sep 9, 2024Sep 11, 2024HTBS

Tom Weil: A Kind, Wonderful and Passionate Historian and Friend

Jun 17, 2024Jun 16, 2024HTBS

More Gleaming Gold

Feb 29, 2024Feb 28, 2024HTBS

Leander Club Library Rowing Book Talks Series 2

Dec 29, 2023Dec 28, 2023HTBS

Rowing Books, 2023

Nov 9, 2023Nov 8, 2023HTBS

Ticker-Tape Parade for the 1930 Diamonds Winner

Oct 31, 2023Oct 30, 2023HTBS

Leander Talk: Gavin Jameison on Jumbo Edwards

Aug 11, 2023Aug 11, 2023HTBS

Leander Club Library Rowing Book Talks Series 1

Aug 8, 2023Dec 10, 2024HTBS

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

Jul 28, 2023Jul 27, 2023HTBS

Q&A: Gavin Jamieson on his Biography of Jumbo Edwards

Jun 17, 2023Jun 16, 2023HTBS

War And Peace: The Life of Hugh “Jumbo” Edwards

May 4, 2023May 3, 2023HTBS

Pink Water at Westminster

Apr 20, 2023Apr 19, 2023HTBS

Gavin Jamieson’s Water’s Gleaming Gold Is Soon Out

Feb 16, 2023Feb 15, 2023HTBS

RIP Raquel Welch

Jun 18, 2022Jun 17, 2022HTBS

Winemaker and Oarsman Josh Jensen Dies at 78

Feb 1, 2022Feb 15, 2022HTBS

How Oxford Won The Boat Race

Aug 4, 2021Aug 3, 2021HTBS

Jumbo Edwards – “Water’s Gleaming Gold”

Jul 5, 2021Jul 4, 2021HTBS

90 Years Ago, a HRR Triple-Win for Jumbo Edwards

Feb 8, 2021Feb 7, 2021HTBS

Donald Gollan: The Nearly Man

Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021HTBS

Colin Porter: A Rebel with a Cause

Sep 15, 2020Sep 15, 2020HTBS

Gavin Jamieson: Jumbo’s 1927 Metropolitan Medal

Aug 7, 2020Aug 9, 2020HTBS

A 1954 Oxford Rowing Footnote

Apr 22, 2020Apr 21, 2020HTBS

Fixed Seat Reading

Apr 18, 2020Apr 18, 2020HTBS

The Magic Christian at 50+

Apr 15, 2020Apr 14, 2020HTBS

The Other Parts of Rowing (TOPOR) I – Barging into Training

Apr 10, 2020Apr 11, 2020HTBS

Ronnie and Shades of Blue

Apr 9, 2020Apr 9, 2020HTBS

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

Feb 25, 2020Feb 25, 2020HTBS

The Worst of Times and the Best of Times: Adrian Stokes’ Boat Races

Feb 21, 2020Feb 20, 2020HTBS

Jumbo Edwards Biography

Feb 20, 2020Feb 20, 2020HTBS

Jumbo Edwards: Oarsman, Coach and RAF Pilot – Part IV

Feb 19, 2020Feb 19, 2020HTBS

Jumbo Edwards: Oarsman, Coach and RAF Pilot – Part III

Feb 18, 2020Feb 17, 2020HTBS

Jumbo Edwards: Oarsman, Coach and RAF Pilot – Part II

Feb 17, 2020Feb 17, 2020HTBS

Jumbo Edwards: Oarsman, Coach and RAF Pilot – Part I

Oct 8, 2019Oct 8, 2019HTBS

Kit Inspection

Jun 28, 2019Jun 28, 2019HTBS

Jack Beresford: Schoolboy, Soldier and Sportsman

Apr 16, 2019Apr 16, 2019HTBS

1968: Facetious Facts on The Boat Race

Jan 7, 2019Jan 6, 2019HTBS

Betrayal in the Boat Club – Oxford University Boat Club, that is

Apr 10, 2018Apr 14, 2018HTBS

Rebels on the River – Part I

Aug 9, 2017Aug 8, 2017HTBS

A Snapshot of Rowing in the 1890s

Jul 6, 2017Jul 5, 2019HTBS

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

Sep 5, 2014Sep 4, 2014HTBS

A Three Pipe Problem

Aug 29, 2014Aug 28, 2014HTBS

Jumbo Edwards: The Coach that demanded Socks On!

Feb 5, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Lewis Clive: The Red Blue

May 3, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Tall Boys

May 2, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Heavy Boys?

Nov 2, 2009Apr 25, 2014Ellen

A 1954 Oxford Rowing Footnote

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