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3 days ago Dec 23, 2025Dec 22, 2025HTBS

Countdown To The 2026 Boat Race: Oxford Trial Eights

4 days ago Dec 22, 2025Dec 21, 2025HTBS

Countdown To The 2026 Boat Race: Cambridge Trial Eights

1 week ago Dec 16, 2025Dec 16, 2025HTBS

Home And Away: Jack Beresford And The 1938 English Eight

Dec 4, 2025Dec 8, 2025HTBS

William O’Chee to Write Offical History of OUBC

Dec 3, 2025Dec 3, 2025HTBS

Jack Beresford’s Berlin Album Part I

Nov 21, 2025Nov 20, 2025HTBS

John the Orange-Man of Harvard

Nov 4, 2025Nov 4, 2025HTBS

The 2025 Madras – Colombo Regatta

Oct 2, 2025Oct 1, 2025HTBS

The First Sign of Spring and the First Controversy of the 2026 Boat Race

Sep 30, 2025Sep 29, 2025HTBS

So, That’s Clear…

Sep 22, 2025Sep 21, 2025HTBS

Journey’s End

Aug 26, 2025Aug 25, 2025HTBS

Punch’s Rowing Cartoons: A Bit Of A Curate’s Egg

Jul 25, 2025Jul 24, 2025HTBS

OUBC’s Performance Review: Horse Or Camel?

Jul 4, 2025Jul 3, 2025HTBS

Picture This: Henley Thursday 2025

Jun 26, 2025Jun 25, 2025HTBS

HRR 2025: Getting Straight And Ready

Jun 23, 2025Jun 23, 2025HTBS

Eton: Jolly Floating Weather Part I, Preparation

Jun 19, 2025Jun 20, 2025HTBS

Ed Archibald: Winning the Headships 20 Years Apart

Jun 14, 2025Jun 14, 2025HTBS

In memory of Matthew Labine, Yale ’81

Jun 5, 2025Jun 8, 2025HTBS

Oxford Summer Eights 2025: Two Heads Are Better than One

Jun 3, 2025Jun 3, 2025HTBS

Emeritus Bishop Mark Jabalé Dies

May 29, 2025May 28, 2025HTBS

Back To The Future

May 5, 2025May 4, 2025HTBS

OUBC: Finding A Way To Get Back To Winning

May 2, 2025May 18, 2025HTBS

Putney Embankment: From A Shed To A Row – Part I

Apr 29, 2025Apr 28, 2025HTBS

The 2025 Boat Races Revisited

Apr 28, 2025May 2, 2025HTBS

How To Save The Boat Race From The Lawyers

Apr 26, 2025Apr 25, 2025HTBS

The Right Way To Write

Apr 21, 2025Apr 21, 2025HTBS

Photo Essay 3: Vintage Sheet Music Covers

Apr 18, 2025Apr 17, 2025HTBS

Restarting The Boat Races

Apr 17, 2025Apr 17, 2025HTBS

Boat Race Day 2025 Part III: Mortlake 

Apr 16, 2025Apr 16, 2025HTBS

Boat Race Day 2025 Part II: P to M

Apr 15, 2025Apr 15, 2025HTBS

Boat Race Day 2025 Part I: Putney

Apr 13, 2025Apr 13, 2025HTBS

Tim Koch: I’m Not Behind The Times

Apr 12, 2025Apr 14, 2025HTBS

Hadaway Harry: Lessons of History, Barriers to Access and the Future of British Rowing – Part I

Apr 11, 2025Apr 10, 2025HTBS

Paddling At Putney

Apr 10, 2025Apr 11, 2025HTBS

Going Spare…

Apr 7, 2025Apr 6, 2025HTBS

Tideway Week: The Lull Before The Storm

Apr 5, 2025Apr 4, 2025HTBS

The Boat Race: Doin’ It For Nuffin

Apr 4, 2025Apr 3, 2025HTBS

The Boat Race: A Centennial And A Decennial

Apr 1, 2025Apr 4, 2025HTBS

Oxford’s Final Fixtures

Mar 29, 2025Apr 27, 2025HTBS

And Then There Were Eighteen…

Mar 25, 2025Mar 24, 2025HTBS

The HoRR: Making Champions Since 1926

Mar 20, 2025Mar 20, 2025HTBS

Mail Online Report Shock Horror*

Mar 19, 2025Mar 19, 2025HTBS

The Boat Race: A Row Before The Row

Mar 18, 2025Mar 23, 2025HTBS

The HoRR: From Pencils To Processors

Mar 10, 2025Mar 9, 2025HTBS

The 85th WEHoRR: A New Milestone

Mar 8, 2025Mar 7, 2025HTBS

IWD 2025: Rowing In The Wake Of Pioneers

Mar 7, 2025Mar 6, 2025HTBS

Looking Down On Oxford

Mar 6, 2025Mar 7, 2025HTBS

The Cambridge Media Fixtures: A Colour Clash Of Light Blue, Cerise And Orange

Mar 4, 2025Mar 3, 2025HTBS

Rhythm and Feuds

Feb 27, 2025Feb 26, 2025HTBS

Defeated, But Not Disgraced: How the Oxford Blues Beat the Harvard Magentas in 1869

Feb 22, 2025Feb 19, 2025HTBS

The Boat Race Fixtures: Finding Form?

Feb 18, 2025Feb 17, 2025HTBS

Rowers, Spies, and Traitors

Feb 17, 2025Feb 17, 2025HTBS

Remenham Club: Knowing The Answers

Feb 12, 2025Feb 13, 2025HTBS

Dr Dillon: Making History – Part I

Dec 30, 2024Dec 31, 2024HTBS

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

Dec 14, 2024Dec 13, 2024HTBS

Students Tested

Dec 10, 2024Dec 9, 2024HTBS

An Oxford Blue? How about an Oxford Yellow?

Nov 30, 2024Nov 29, 2024HTBS

Throwing Coxswains To The Winds

Nov 22, 2024Nov 22, 2024HTBS

The Importance of Losing

Nov 15, 2024Nov 18, 2024HTBS

The 2025 Boat Race: Under Starter’s Orders

Nov 10, 2024Nov 10, 2024HTBS

Remembrance Sunday – The Oarsman’s Ode

Oct 23, 2024Oct 22, 2024HTBS

The Great Henley Helmet Heist Of ‘73

Oct 16, 2024Oct 15, 2024HTBS

Sandy Irvine: Climbing The Third Pole

Aug 16, 2024Aug 15, 2024HTBS

Win, Lose And Draw: The Coxing Career of GL Davis

Jun 27, 2024Jul 4, 2024HTBS

HWR 2024: Images From The Line

Jun 26, 2024Jun 25, 2024HTBS

HWR 2024: Images From The Start

Jun 15, 2024Jun 14, 2024HTBS

The Boat Race: Only 300 Days To Go

Jun 8, 2024Oct 15, 2024HTBS

From Oxford to Everest – Part I

May 31, 2024May 30, 2024HTBS

Eights Week: 200 Years of Snakes and Ladders

May 30, 2024May 29, 2024HTBS

The Coombes Monument: Four Heads Are Better Than None

Apr 23, 2024Apr 22, 2024HTBS

Bowden To Step Down

Apr 12, 2024Apr 12, 2024HTBS

Holmes and Watson Sleuth Around in Cambridge

Apr 11, 2024Apr 10, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Races Revisited

Apr 10, 2024Apr 9, 2024HTBS

The Drama of the Dead Heat

Apr 9, 2024Apr 8, 2024HTBS

The Other Oxford – Cambridge Boat Races: The Spare, The Senior And The Slight

Apr 8, 2024Apr 7, 2024HTBS

Rhythm and Blues

Apr 6, 2024Apr 6, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race III: The Underdogs Have Their Day

Apr 5, 2024Apr 4, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race II: Paper Meets Water

Apr 4, 2024Apr 17, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race I: On The Waterfront

Apr 2, 2024Apr 1, 2024HTBS

See It To Be It

Apr 1, 2024Apr 1, 2024HTBS

A Gut Feeling About The Boat Race?

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