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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 27, 2023Jan 26, 2023HTBS

Chris Medals

Jan 19, 2023Jan 19, 2023HTBS

Not Going Spare: Brothers Pulling Together

Jan 16, 2023Jan 17, 2023HTBS

Chaloke Komarakul-na-Nagara: First of the Few

Jan 11, 2023Jan 10, 2023HTBS

Alan Burrough: Gin and Bear It

Dec 30, 2022Dec 30, 2022HTBS

Looking Forward 

Dec 18, 2022Dec 17, 2022HTBS

Cambridge Trial Eights: Rapinoe and Youth are First Among Equals

Dec 17, 2022Dec 16, 2022HTBS

Athena and Beetle Pass Oxford’s Tideway Test

Dec 8, 2022Dec 7, 2022HTBS

Eights Online

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

Dec 2, 2022Dec 1, 2022HTBS

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

Nov 29, 2022Nov 28, 2022HTBS

Aylings: The Racing Blade Experts

Nov 28, 2022Nov 28, 2022HTBS

The Fictional Life of Jock Lewes

Nov 18, 2022Nov 21, 2022HTBS

Rowing in Verse and Worse 

Nov 10, 2022Nov 10, 2022HTBS

Jock Lewes: From Tideway to Tobruk – Part II, Oxford 1933 – 1937

Nov 9, 2022Nov 9, 2022HTBS

Jock Lewes: From Tideway to Tobruk – Part I 

Oct 20, 2022Oct 20, 2022HTBS

Two Presidents: Betty And Monkey

Jul 28, 2022Jul 27, 2022HTBS

Duncan Clegg: Hero and Heavy

Jun 18, 2022Jun 17, 2022HTBS

Winemaker and Oarsman Josh Jensen Dies at 78

Jun 1, 2022Jun 1, 2022HTBS

Welcome Back: Oxford’s Summer Eights

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022HTBS

Mark Jabalé: My Conversion to Rowing

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

Apr 19, 2022Apr 24, 2022HTBS

John Hawks Clasper, His Father’s Son. Part I: The Professional Oarsman

Apr 9, 2022Apr 9, 2022HTBS

The Boat Race Comes Home

Apr 8, 2022Apr 10, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part III – After

Apr 7, 2022Apr 7, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part II – During

Apr 6, 2022Apr 5, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part I – Before

Apr 4, 2022Apr 4, 2022HTBS

Breaking News

Apr 3, 2022Apr 2, 2022HTBS

Relative Rowing

Apr 2, 2022Apr 1, 2022HTBS

A Tideway Week Album: The Oxford Men

Mar 25, 2022Mar 24, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Reading the Runes

Mar 19, 2022Mar 19, 2022HTBS

Oxford Women and Lightweights get Pre-Race Bounty

Mar 9, 2022Mar 30, 2022HTBS

Turning Blue: The 2022 Boat Race Crews

Mar 7, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Gordon Bennett!*

Feb 19, 2022Feb 18, 2022HTBS

BlueTube

Feb 18, 2022Feb 18, 2022HTBS

William Grenfell’s ‘Rowing at Oxford’

Feb 15, 2022Feb 14, 2022HTBS

More Pieces of Eight

Feb 1, 2022Feb 15, 2022HTBS

How Oxford Won The Boat Race

Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Beating the Blues?

Jan 25, 2022Jan 25, 2022HTBS

Pieces of Eight

Jan 3, 2022Jan 2, 2022HTBS

Things that Go Bump in the Day*

Dec 21, 2021Dec 20, 2021HTBS

Eighteen Into Nine Won’t Go: The Oxford Men’s Trial Eights

Dec 18, 2021Dec 17, 2021HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Trials: Keeping in the Stream

Dec 3, 2021Dec 3, 2021HTBS

At The Pictures: A Hundred Thousand Oarsmen

Nov 23, 2021Nov 22, 2021HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race: Throwing Down the Pogie

Nov 18, 2021Nov 17, 2021HTBS

Another Boatload of Mos

Nov 12, 2021Nov 11, 2021HTBS

The Fitzwilliam Museum: Where the Lion lies down with the Ox*

Nov 11, 2021Nov 10, 2021HTBS

The Thames: Assisting the Enemy

Nov 9, 2021Nov 8, 2021HTBS

John Millbourn, Oarsman, Coach and Regatta Administrator, Dies

Nov 6, 2021Nov 23, 2021HTBS

Time to Grow a Mo!

Oct 29, 2021Oct 29, 2021HTBS

Allan Seager’s Joy on the River Isis

Oct 18, 2021Oct 17, 2021HTBS

Champions Return to the Championship Course

Oct 12, 2021Oct 11, 2021HTBS

A Raj Regatta

Sep 28, 2021Sep 28, 2021HTBS

A Golden Age Captured in Monochrome

Aug 23, 2021Aug 23, 2021HTBS

Adrian Stokes: Oxford Blue, Henley Winner and a Typical Wykhamist

Aug 4, 2021Aug 3, 2021HTBS

Jumbo Edwards – “Water’s Gleaming Gold”

Jul 29, 2021Oct 18, 2021HTBS

Art and the Pro-Am Divide

Jul 21, 2021Jul 21, 2021HTBS

The 1908 Olympic Games – Part I

May 22, 2021May 22, 2021HTBS

LAF Stokes R.I.P.

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021HTBS

Boating the Blues

May 3, 2021May 4, 2021HTBS

Bumped Off

Apr 29, 2021Apr 29, 2021HTBS

Like Water Under A Troubled Bridge?*

Apr 21, 2021Apr 20, 2021HTBS

Rowing History’s Baker Street Irregulars

Apr 10, 2021Apr 10, 2021HTBS

2021 Boat Races Revisited

Apr 8, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

The 1900 Boat Race: Brother Against Brother

Apr 7, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

A Silver Lining for a Blue Cloud?

Apr 6, 2021Apr 8, 2021HTBS

Keep it in the Family

Apr 5, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

Cambridge Hone Home Waters Their Way

Apr 5, 2021Apr 4, 2021HTBS

A Little Bird Told Me…

Apr 4, 2021Apr 3, 2021HTBS

The Race, Never Ending

Apr 4, 2021Apr 3, 2021HTBS

Boat Race Reminder

Apr 3, 2021Apr 3, 2021HTBS

Should the Boat Race Rowers Worry About Gemini?

Apr 2, 2021Apr 1, 2021HTBS

The Boat Race of ’21: Two Days to go, a Hundred Years Gone

Mar 27, 2021Mar 26, 2021HTBS

Yes, But What Do They Actually Do?

Mar 26, 2021Mar 25, 2021HTBS

In Ely-sian Fields

Mar 23, 2021Mar 22, 2021HTBS

Alf: The Twinn Who Was One Of A Kind

Mar 15, 2021Mar 14, 2021HTBS

Charles Merivale: Looking Down On The 2021 Boat Race

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