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Apr 9, 2019Apr 9, 2019HTBS

Boat Race Day 2019: Who said what and plus ça change

Apr 8, 2019Apr 8, 2019HTBS

When Oarsmen were Gunmen

Apr 7, 2019Apr 6, 2019HTBS

Oxford – not the best crew in Oxford (to be fair, Cambridge wouldn’t be either)

Apr 5, 2019Apr 5, 2019HTBS

Looking Forward To The Boat Race?

Mar 30, 2019Mar 29, 2019HTBS

Letters That Mean So Much: A Suggestion From ‘Steve’

Mar 27, 2019Mar 25, 2019HTBS

A Boat Race Light in Style but Heavy on Class

Mar 26, 2019Mar 26, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: Not Wimping Out – The HTBS 10th Anniversary Lunch

Mar 17, 2019Mar 16, 2019HTBS

Weighing Up The Blues

Mar 14, 2019Mar 14, 2019HTBS

Bumper to Bumper

Mar 13, 2019Mar 10, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: A Decade of Decisive Moments

Mar 7, 2019Mar 7, 2019HTBS

RRM@21 – 8: Five Fours to Fathom

Mar 5, 2019Mar 5, 2019HTBS

The Great River Rowed

Feb 28, 2019Feb 28, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: Second Call For Lunch

Feb 6, 2019Feb 28, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: Luncheon Is Served

Jan 7, 2019Jan 6, 2019HTBS

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

Dec 10, 2018Dec 11, 2018HTBS

Oxford’s Boat Race Trials: Flea Bites, Comet Soars

Dec 3, 2018Dec 19, 2018HTBS

Tokyo’s Sokei Regatta: One of the Big Three?

Nov 1, 2018Oct 31, 2018HTBS

Oxford and Cambridge to make Light Work of the Tideway

Oct 28, 2018Oct 27, 2018HTBS

Tom’s Treasures

Oct 5, 2018Oct 4, 2018HTBS

Barry, Beeb, Blues and the BR on the Box

Jul 24, 2018Jul 24, 2018HTBS

Manchester and Oxford Win the First Power8 Sprints

Jul 12, 2018Jul 12, 2018HTBS

Henley Men’s Open Events

Jun 26, 2018Jun 25, 2018HTBS

That Gut Feeling: The 2018 Cambridge University May Bumps

Apr 11, 2018Apr 12, 2018HTBS

Rebels on the River – Part II

Apr 10, 2018Apr 14, 2018HTBS

Rebels on the River – Part I

Mar 28, 2018Mar 28, 2018HTBS

Blue to the End: Cyril Burnand and the 1911 Cambridge Blues

Mar 27, 2018Mar 27, 2018HTBS

The 2018 Oxford – Cambridge Veterans’ Race: Life in the Old Dogs Yet

Mar 26, 2018Apr 8, 2018HTBS

The 2018 Boat Races: Cambridge is the Big Dog in the Fight

Mar 23, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Boat Race Quiz – The Answers

Mar 22, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Facing the Dark Blue Music

Mar 21, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Can Bowden Do A Topolski?

Mar 20, 2018Mar 20, 2018HTBS

Aldous takes Bugajski’s Spot in Oxford Crew

Mar 20, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Tideway Week Tuesday: An Oxford Outing

Mar 20, 2018Mar 20, 2018HTBS

Not to Paddle, but to Dine

Mar 19, 2018Mar 18, 2018HTBS

The Boat Race and Tideway Week: Eat, Sleep, Row

Mar 7, 2018Mar 7, 2018HTBS

Weekend Warriors

Feb 28, 2018Feb 28, 2018HTBS

Weighing Up The Boat Race Crews

Feb 26, 2018Feb 25, 2018HTBS

Neighbours at War: Oxford v Brookes

Feb 21, 2018Feb 21, 2018HTBS

Light Blue and Purple – A Colour Clash

Feb 19, 2018Feb 18, 2018HTBS

The Nile Boat Races: ‘A Confusion of Fun’ or ‘Beaten by a Dead Donkey’

Jan 26, 2018Jan 26, 2018HTBS

Rowing’s Continuation and Resilience in Wartime Oxford

Dec 18, 2017Dec 21, 2017HTBS

The Rule of a ‘Click’: The End of Writing on Rowing? – Part I

Dec 9, 2017Dec 8, 2017HTBS

The Oxford Men’s Trial Eights: Out Of The Strong Came Forth Swiftness*

Dec 8, 2017Dec 8, 2017HTBS

Cambridge Trial Eights

Dec 5, 2017Dec 4, 2017HTBS

Boat Races Trial Eights – Cambridge

Dec 4, 2017Dec 3, 2017HTBS

An Anthony Ditty: Following a Mother’s Last Wish

Nov 25, 2017Nov 24, 2017HTBS

University Rowing 2017

Nov 14, 2017Nov 13, 2017HTBS

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

Nov 13, 2017Jan 22, 2018HTBS

Backsplash: Well Rowed

Oct 25, 2017Oct 25, 2017HTBS

Rowing Trophy Makes A Homecoming After 140 Years

William O'Chee
Oct 18, 2017Oct 17, 2017HTBS

Welcome to HTBS, William!

Aug 23, 2017Aug 25, 2019HTBS

Jim Railton: Insight, Constructive Criticism and Coruscating Prose

Aug 9, 2017Aug 8, 2017HTBS

A Snapshot of Rowing in the 1890s

Jul 13, 2017Jul 11, 2017HTBS

New Club Presidents for the 2018 Boat Races

Jul 7, 2017Jul 6, 2017HTBS

Lightning, Drownings and Leisured Gentlemen: Recreational Rowing in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Jul 6, 2017Jul 5, 2019HTBS

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

Jun 27, 2017Jun 26, 2017HTBS

The Sixties Swinger

Jun 9, 2017Jun 9, 2017HTBS

The Rowing Flemings – Part II: The Man with the Golden Oar

May 3, 2017May 4, 2017HTBS

The Boat Race 1946: It’s Oxford!

Apr 10, 2017Apr 9, 2017HTBS

The Boat Races Revisited

Apr 9, 2017Apr 9, 2017HTBS

Pictures of Match Race Men (and Women): Part II

Apr 6, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Pictures of Match Race Men* (and Women): Part 1 of 2

Apr 5, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Tempted from office stools…..*

Apr 4, 2017Apr 6, 2017HTBS

Boat Race Day: plus ça change…

Apr 3, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Battles of Blues from the Couch

Apr 2, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Observing Oxford, Contemplating Cambridge: Viewing the Boat Race

Apr 1, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Tomorrow’s Oxford–Cambridge Boat Races: The Results?

Mar 31, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Contenders On The Waterfront: Pictures From Tideway Week, Part II

Mar 29, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Charles Dickens Jr. on the Boat Race: The Best of Times has become The Worst of Times

Mar 28, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

The Oxford–Cambridge Boat Races: The Countdown Has Begun

Mar 22, 2017Mar 22, 2017HTBS

Fragments of the True Oar

Mar 16, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Weigh Enough*?

Mar 13, 2017Mar 12, 2017HTBS

“True Blue” and Supper at Leander Club

Mar 1, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Want to Bet?

Feb 23, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

The 2017 Boat Race* Fixtures: The Story So Far

Dec 6, 2016Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Oxford’s Trial By Tideway: The Men’s Race

Nov 7, 2016Nov 6, 2016HTBS

Time again for the Fuller’s Head

Jul 27, 2016Jul 26, 2016HTBS

What are the Origins of the Modern Sport of Rowing?

Apr 6, 2016Apr 5, 2016HTBS

The 2016 Boat Races on HTBS

Apr 5, 2016Apr 4, 2016HTBS

Compare & Contrast: A Final Look at the 2016 Boat Races

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