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Feb 19, 2019Feb 18, 2019HTBS

Frankfurter Rudergesellschaft Germania 1869 e.V.: Celebration Row-Past at HRR – Part I

Jan 29, 2019Jan 31, 2019HTBS

Going To The Dogs

Jan 14, 2019Jan 13, 2019HTBS

The Empire Calls

Nov 23, 2018Nov 23, 2018HTBS

Rolls of Honour: Further Images of Rowing Club War Memorials

Nov 12, 2018Nov 11, 2018HTBS

Rowers Remember Their Own: #bladesofremembrance

Nov 11, 2018Nov 11, 2018HTBS

London’s Tablet of Memories 

Nov 9, 2018Nov 8, 2018HTBS

From Golden Days to Flanders Fields: Remembering Fallen Oarsmen on the Centenary of the Armistice

Oct 27, 2018Oct 28, 2018HTBS

Wingfields 2018: The Thames Has Two New Champions

Oct 4, 2018Oct 4, 2018HTBS

Rob van Mesdag: The Final Farewells

Sep 11, 2018Sep 12, 2018HTBS

1958: Australia Goes to Europe – Part 1

Jul 27, 2018Jul 26, 2018HTBS

Rob van Mesdag, Scribe and Sculler

Jul 25, 2018Jul 24, 2018HTBS

Rob van Mesdag RIP

Jul 6, 2018Jul 6, 2018HTBS

Henley Thursday: Shirt Sleeve Order

Jul 4, 2018Jul 4, 2018HTBS

Remembering Oarsmen Who Shall Grow Not Old

Jun 13, 2018Jun 12, 2018HTBS

Leander: Marking the Beginnings of Its Success

Mar 9, 2018Mar 6, 2018HTBS

Suffragettes and Sport: Legitimate Targets?

Feb 28, 2018Feb 28, 2018HTBS

Weighing Up The Boat Race Crews

Jan 10, 2018Jan 10, 2018HTBS

The Biffens of Hammersmith – Builders of Boats Big and Small

Jan 2, 2018Jan 2, 2018HTBS

Sir David Hangs up his Oar

Nov 24, 2017Nov 24, 2017HTBS

…To say nothing of the dog…

Nov 17, 2017Nov 17, 2017HTBS

The 2017 Wingfield Sculls: ‘A vision of glorious amateurism’

Nov 14, 2017Nov 13, 2017HTBS

The Head Fours: Leander’s Cerised Lightening, A Bolt From The Light Blues

Oct 25, 2017Oct 25, 2017HTBS

Rowing Trophy Makes A Homecoming After 140 Years

Sep 18, 2017Sep 19, 2017HTBS

Up Suzhou Creek – A Brief History of The Shanghai Rowing Club – I

Sep 7, 2017Sep 5, 2017HTBS

Badges of Honour

Jul 20, 2017Jul 21, 2017HTBS

Molesey Amateur Regatta: Henley Minor

Jul 14, 2017Jul 14, 2017HTBS

Limerick Boat Club Adapts After Darwin

Jul 2, 2017Jul 1, 2017HTBS

Henley Royal Regatta: Semi Saturday

Jul 1, 2017Jul 1, 2017HTBS

Henley’s Third Day: Halfway There

Jun 30, 2017Jul 1, 2017HTBS

Henley’s Second Day: A Trip Down The Course

Jun 5, 2017Jun 4, 2017HTBS

The Met: Open To The World Since 1866

May 8, 2017May 20, 2017HTBS

Peter Coni: Turning Over An Old Leaf

Feb 20, 2017Feb 20, 2017HTBS

Hadaway Harry: The Knot Retied

Feb 17, 2017Feb 17, 2017HTBS

Hadaway Harry’s Oars Found?

Feb 2, 2017Feb 1, 2017HTBS

Putney and Fulham Embrace ‘Hadaway Harry’

Feb 1, 2017Feb 1, 2017HTBS

Part III: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate

Jan 31, 2017Feb 1, 2017HTBS

Part II: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate

Dec 1, 2016Nov 30, 2016HTBS

Morris Morris: So Good They Named Him Twice – Part III: Life before and after rowing, 1899 – 1985

Nov 30, 2016Nov 30, 2016HTBS

Morris Morris: So Good They Named Him Twice – Part II: Promise Unfulfilled, 1923-1925

Nov 29, 2016Nov 28, 2016HTBS

Morris Morris: So Good They Named Him Twice – Part I: The Remarkable Years, 1922-1923

Nov 9, 2016Nov 23, 2016HTBS

Don’t Smile For The Camera: Some Old Crew Pictures

Nov 1, 2016Oct 31, 2016HTBS

Richmond-upon-Thames, Part II: 64 years with Bill Colley

Sep 17, 2016Sep 17, 2016HTBS

(Legislative) Bodies Between Their Knees*: The 2016 Parliamentary Boat Race

Aug 7, 2016Aug 6, 2016HTBS

‘Thanks King’: Sweden’s Modern Olympics, Part II

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016HTBS

The 1956 Winning Letter

Nov 27, 2015Nov 27, 2015HTBS

Louis Pettipher: Joining The Redcoats

Sep 23, 2015Sep 23, 2015HTBS

On Jock Wise

Jul 10, 2015Jul 8, 2015HTBS

A Brief* History of the Cork Mechanics

Jul 8, 2015Jul 8, 2015HTBS

Henley Finals Part 2, Men’s Intermediate and Club Events: Thames wins Thames, Bulldogs bite Huskies, No worries for Sydney

Jul 4, 2015Jul 5, 2015HTBS

Henley Day 3: Good Friday

Jul 3, 2015Jul 5, 2015HTBS

Henley Thursday: Weather Cools Down, Racing Heats Up

Jun 20, 2015Jun 20, 2015HTBS

The Henley Regattas: Ladies First

Jun 10, 2015Jun 10, 2015HTBS

New Rowing Book: A Yank at Cambridge – B.H. Howell: The Forgotten Champion

Jan 29, 2015Jan 28, 2015HTBS

Who Was The Man At The Bow?

Mar 30, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

The Head of The River Race 2014: Not Waiving but Drowning

Mar 7, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

When Rowing Ideas are Running Dry….

Mar 2, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Black and Blue: Molesey v Oxford

Jul 23, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Anglian Boat Club: The Anglo-Scandinavian Races

Mar 13, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Easy To Pick A Crew

Nov 5, 2011Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Archie Nisbet: Oarsman, Coach, Rowing Patron

Aug 7, 2011Aug 7, 2011Ellen

Four Men At Home After 140 Miles

May 15, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

The Putney Embankment – London’s ‘Boathouse Row’, Part 2

Oct 6, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Chris Dodd On Tony Fox

Oct 1, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Tony Fox: An Extraodinary British Sculler

Mar 7, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Letters From Steve Fairbairn 1926

Mar 15, 2009Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Water Boiling Aft London Rowing Club, The First 150 Years 1856-2006

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