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Tag: Leander Club

Feb 21, 2024Feb 20, 2024HTBS

The Home On Finches Field

Feb 8, 2024Feb 7, 2024HTBS

Titan of the Thames: The Life of Lord Desborough

Jan 24, 2024Jan 23, 2024HTBS

Rowing Has Found A New Siren

Nov 29, 2023Nov 28, 2023HTBS

Blues Funk Part II

Nov 11, 2023Nov 11, 2023HTBS

Olympic Oarsman Roel Luijnenburg Dies

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

Sep 28, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

Chester Regatta, Part IV: 1838, A More Certain Future 

Sep 4, 2023Sep 3, 2023HTBS

The Percy-Grosvenor Nuptials Regatta of 1842

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 27, 2023Aug 1, 2023HTBS

Henley 2023: Silver Service

Jul 26, 2023Jul 25, 2023HTBS

Henley 2023: The Final Finals

Jul 25, 2023Jul 26, 2023HTBS

Henley 2023: The Finals – Finally

Jul 19, 2023Jul 18, 2023HTBS

Henley 2023: Saturday Semis

Jul 17, 2023Jul 17, 2023HTBS

HRR 2023: Friday – Good For Some

Jul 14, 2023Jul 13, 2023HTBS

Henley 2023: Images From The Opening Day

Jul 11, 2023Jul 11, 2023HTBS

Thames RC Celebrates a Golden Anniversary

Jun 27, 2023Jun 26, 2023HTBS

Henley Women’s Regatta – And Saving Rowing For Women

Jun 19, 2023Jun 19, 2023HTBS

Princeton Lightweight Women – A Study in Courage to the End

Jun 12, 2023Jun 12, 2023HTBS

Yale Crews Give Gladstone Three Victories

Jun 8, 2023Jun 8, 2023HTBS

Leander Welcomes Colgan Foundation Sponsorship

May 6, 2023May 6, 2023HTBS

Rowing: Still Not the Sport of Kings

Apr 10, 2023Apr 9, 2023HTBS

Rowing Commentary Training Day

Mar 21, 2023Mar 20, 2023HTBS

Heads To The Power of 3

Mar 20, 2023Mar 19, 2023HTBS

What Are The Odds? The 2023 Boat Races Form Guide

Mar 14, 2023Mar 16, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part II, 1902-03

Mar 13, 2023Mar 12, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part I, 1901-02

Mar 7, 2023Mar 6, 2023HTBS

The 75th WHoRR: Going Strong

Mar 6, 2023Mar 6, 2023HTBS

B. H. Howell: The Diamonds Winner in 1898 and 1899

Mar 1, 2023Feb 28, 2023HTBS

Rowing Trip to Sweden

Feb 21, 2023Feb 21, 2023HTBS

May Time V

Feb 9, 2023Feb 8, 2023HTBS

May Time IV: Family Connections

Feb 4, 2023Feb 4, 2023HTBS

The Boat Race: From Vitaphone To YouTube

Feb 2, 2023Feb 1, 2023HTBS

Ilex RC: A Forgotten Club Occupying A Forgotten Place In Rowing History

Jan 16, 2023Jan 17, 2023HTBS

Chaloke Komarakul-na-Nagara: First of the Few

Dec 30, 2022Dec 30, 2022HTBS

Looking Forward 

Dec 6, 2022Dec 6, 2022HTBS

Not Cuckoo: Signs of Spring

Dec 3, 2022Dec 2, 2022HTBS

Blues, Brown, Boris, Bruce and Buccaneers in the Boat Race, Part II

Nov 18, 2022Nov 21, 2022HTBS

Rowing in Verse and Worse 

Nov 14, 2022Nov 14, 2022HTBS

Rowing is a Funny Old Game

Nov 1, 2022Nov 1, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Wingfields: The Championship Course Lives up to its Name

Sep 22, 2022Sep 27, 2022HTBS

All The Single Ladies (and Gentlemen)

Sep 7, 2022Sep 6, 2022HTBS

Highly Rated: The 1936 Tokyo Imperial University Eight

Jul 13, 2022Jul 12, 2022HTBS

Henley 2022: Some Final Views

Jul 11, 2022Jul 11, 2022HTBS

Smoke and Mirrors at the Royal Regatta

Jul 9, 2022Jul 9, 2022HTBS

Henley Sunday: Let Us Spray

Jul 8, 2022Jul 7, 2022HTBS

Henley Sunday: Divine Service 

Jul 7, 2022Jul 6, 2022HTBS

Henley Sunday: Morning Mass

Jul 3, 2022Jul 3, 2022HTBS

Henley’s Semi-Saturday

Jul 2, 2022Jul 3, 2022HTBS

Henley: That Friday Feeling

Jul 1, 2022Jul 3, 2022HTBS

Henley Thursday: Sunshine and Showers

Jun 30, 2022Jun 29, 2022HTBS

Henley Wednesday: Going Up A Gear

Jun 28, 2022Jun 28, 2022HTBS

Henley Royal Regatta – Not As Good As It Was Since 1840

Jun 17, 2022Jun 19, 2022HTBS

Time for Henley Women’s Regatta

May 17, 2022May 16, 2022HTBS

Thanksgiving for the Life of Bill Windham

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022HTBS

The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part I: Preamble

Apr 25, 2022Apr 26, 2025HTBS

John Hawks Clasper, His Father’s Son. Part II: The Innovative Boat Builder

Mar 28, 2022Mar 27, 2022HTBS

Going To Steve’s Head

Mar 25, 2022Mar 24, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Reading the Runes

Mar 10, 2022Mar 10, 2022HTBS

Memorial Service for Sam Mackenzie

Feb 19, 2022Feb 18, 2022HTBS

BlueTube

Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Beating the Blues?

Jan 4, 2022Jan 4, 2022HTBS

A Henley Programme from the Past

Dec 28, 2021Dec 28, 2021HTBS

Rowing News in Short

Dec 16, 2021Dec 15, 2021HTBS

East is East – Or is He?

Dec 3, 2021Dec 3, 2021HTBS

At The Pictures: A Hundred Thousand Oarsmen

Nov 30, 2021Nov 29, 2021HTBS

Michael Dillon Revisited

Nov 24, 2021Nov 23, 2021HTBS

Two Heads Are Better Than One

Nov 8, 2021Nov 7, 2021HTBS

Vicky Thornley Hangs Up Her Sculls

Nov 6, 2021Nov 23, 2021HTBS

Time to Grow a Mo!

Oct 23, 2021Oct 25, 2021HTBS

The 2021 Wingfield Sculls: History Against the Stream

Oct 18, 2021Oct 17, 2021HTBS

Champions Return to the Championship Course

Sep 28, 2021Sep 28, 2021HTBS

A Golden Age Captured in Monochrome

Sep 1, 2021Feb 16, 2022HTBS

Lord Desborough and the 1908 Olympics – Part III

Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021 – Part 3

Aug 18, 2021Aug 18, 2021HTBS

Henley Finals Day 2021 – Part 2

Aug 17, 2021Aug 16, 2021HTBS

Henley Finals Day 2021 – Part 1

Aug 15, 2021Aug 15, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021: Faterday

Jul 30, 2021Aug 13, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021: The Same But Different

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