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Tag: Professional rowing

2 weeks ago Dec 5, 2025Dec 7, 2025HTBS

Walter C. Camp: Father of American Football, Champion of the Sliding Seat

Oct 18, 2025Oct 18, 2025HTBS

Pittsburgh’s Jimmy Hamill – Part II: Horsing Around

Oct 17, 2025Oct 17, 2025HTBS

Pittsburgh’s Jimmy Hamill – Part I: The Best Little Oarsman in America

Sep 17, 2025Sep 18, 2025HTBS

The Beaver and the Bird

Aug 7, 2025Aug 7, 2025HTBS

Adding To History

Jun 16, 2025Jun 15, 2025HTBS

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

May 30, 2025May 31, 2025HTBS

Photo Essay 4: 19th Century Tobacco Sports Cards

May 29, 2025May 28, 2025HTBS

Back To The Future

May 9, 2025May 10, 2025HTBS

An Oarsman and a Gentleman: Frenchy Johnson Steps Forth

Apr 12, 2025Apr 14, 2025HTBS

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

Mar 27, 2025Mar 26, 2025HTBS

Dating Aquatic Art

Mar 5, 2025Mar 9, 2025HTBS

Celebrating Tom Weil

Feb 4, 2025Feb 3, 2025HTBS

Frenchy A. Johnson – Part II: Ode to an Oarsman

Feb 3, 2025Feb 4, 2025HTBS

Frenchy A. Johnson – Part I: Oarsman to Marksman

Dec 13, 2024Dec 12, 2024HTBS

Books for 2024 Christmas II

Aug 30, 2024Aug 29, 2024HTBS

A Memorial to Ned (and Louis)

May 30, 2024May 29, 2024HTBS

The Coombes Monument: Four Heads Are Better Than None

May 8, 2024May 9, 2024HTBS

Three Men and Three Women in Boats (To Say Nothing of the Dog and the Cat) – Part II

Dec 19, 2023Dec 19, 2023HTBS

The Professional Scullers’ Off-The-Water Activities – Part II

Dec 18, 2023Dec 19, 2023HTBS

The Professional Scullers’ Off-The-Water Activities – Part I

Oct 3, 2023Oct 2, 2023HTBS

Chester Regatta, Part VI: Gentlemen Still In Charge, 1862 – 1872

Sep 29, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

Chester Regatta, Part V: Gentlemen In Charge, 1839 – 1855

Sep 28, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

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

Sep 26, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

Chester Regatta, Part III: Stops and Starts, 1829 – 1837

Mar 6, 2023Mar 6, 2023HTBS

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

Jan 19, 2023Jan 19, 2023HTBS

Not Going Spare: Brothers Pulling Together

Nov 15, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Pocock 8: Searching for Your You of You’s…

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

Mar 29, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Rowing Boeing

Mar 15, 2022Mar 14, 2022HTBS

Hadaway Harry Will Return

Mar 7, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Gordon Bennett!*

Feb 6, 2022Feb 5, 2022HTBS

The Queen’s Head

Dec 16, 2021Dec 15, 2021HTBS

East is East – Or is He?

Nov 29, 2021Nov 28, 2021HTBS

LA2028: Some Modest Proposals

Nov 6, 2021Nov 23, 2021HTBS

Time to Grow a Mo!

Oct 30, 2021Oct 31, 2021HTBS

The Triumph of the Amateurs Book Talk in New Haven

Oct 21, 2021Oct 20, 2021HTBS

Fine Art & Foul Play

Sep 1, 2021Feb 16, 2022HTBS

Lord Desborough and the 1908 Olympics – Part III

Aug 21, 2021Mar 18, 2022HTBS

Three Great Geordie Heroes

Jul 29, 2021Oct 18, 2021HTBS

Art and the Pro-Am Divide

Apr 23, 2021Oct 18, 2021HTBS

The Demise of Professional Rowing

Apr 9, 2021Oct 18, 2021HTBS

Those Two Rascals, John and Ellis

Apr 1, 2021Oct 18, 2021HTBS

Q&A: Bill Lanouette on The Triumph of the Amateurs

Feb 26, 2021Feb 25, 2021HTBS

Stuck in the Toffs’ Pigeon Hole

Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021HTBS

The Rixons: Oars, Poles, Dogs & Fists

Feb 8, 2021Feb 7, 2021HTBS

Donald Gollan: The Nearly Man

Dec 8, 2020Dec 8, 2020HTBS

Rowing Books for Christmas II

Sep 23, 2020Sep 22, 2020HTBS

Going to Town with Barry

Sep 18, 2020Sep 17, 2020HTBS

1920: Ernest Barry Wins the World Sculling Title

Jul 31, 2020Jul 31, 2020HTBS

Bill Miller: A Hanlan Letter

Jul 20, 2020Jul 19, 2020HTBS

Changing with the Times

Jul 15, 2020Jul 14, 2020HTBS

Putting Rowers on a Pedestal

Jul 12, 2020Jul 11, 2020HTBS

150 Years Since the Death of Rowing Legend Harry Clasper

Jun 27, 2020Jun 26, 2020HTBS

Richmond Regatta: A Duck Hunt and a Pig Hunt

Jun 13, 2020Jun 13, 2020HTBS

Rowing & People of Colour: A Few of the Few

May 25, 2020May 24, 2020HTBS

Fixed Seat Reading III: Thames and Tyne Tideways

Apr 25, 2020Apr 24, 2020HTBS

Sapper McDevitt – An ANZAC Rower

Mar 25, 2020Mar 24, 2020HTBS

A Sherbet for Quarantine

Feb 13, 2020Feb 12, 2020HTBS

The Political Courtney

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019HTBS

With Bert on the River

Apr 3, 2019Apr 2, 2019HTBS

Crewcial Collectables: A Nice Pair – Part I

Feb 4, 2019Feb 3, 2019HTBS

Liquid History On Tap

Jan 29, 2019Jan 31, 2019HTBS

Going To The Dogs

Nov 2, 2018Nov 1, 2018HTBS

John H. Clasper Patented Countervail

Oct 25, 2018Oct 29, 2018HTBS

Close to the Water

Aug 29, 2018Aug 29, 2018HTBS

A Hidden History of The Thames on Show

Jun 22, 2018Jun 21, 2018HTBS

Moving Pictures

Apr 7, 2018Apr 6, 2018HTBS

Ian Whitehead: The Tyne’s Role in the Development of the Racing Shell

Mar 30, 2018Mar 30, 2018HTBS

Out-Foxed in Red Wing

Mar 16, 2018Mar 15, 2018HTBS

Lisa Taylor: Lucy Pocock Stillwell – A Woman in a Waterman’s World?

Jan 16, 2018Jan 15, 2018HTBS

The Blackstaffe Trophy: A Case of Reverse Alchemy

Jul 6, 2017Jul 5, 2019HTBS

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

Jun 19, 2017Jun 20, 2017HTBS

Canadian R. Fulton v. American J. Biglin

Jan 16, 2017Jan 15, 2017HTBS

“Hadaway Harry” is Coming to Putney

Sep 29, 2016Sep 30, 2016HTBS

Guardsmen In A Row, Part II: The Brigade of Guards Boat Club

Sep 15, 2016Sep 15, 2016HTBS

Rescued from the Flames and Risen from the Ashes

Sep 14, 2016Sep 12, 2016HTBS

The Thames Finds a Champion

Aug 22, 2016Aug 22, 2016HTBS

The People’s Ned Hanlan

Jul 27, 2016Jul 26, 2016HTBS

What are the Origins of the Modern Sport of Rowing?

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