
Tag: Professional rowing


Not Going Spare: Brothers Pulling Together

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

John Hawks Clasper, His Father’s Son. Part II: The Innovative Boat Builder

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

Rowing Boeing

Hadaway Harry Will Return

Gordon Bennett!*

The Queen’s Head

East is East – Or is He?

LA2028: Some Modest Proposals

Time to Grow a Mo!

The Triumph of the Amateurs Book Talk in New Haven

Fine Art & Foul Play

Lord Desborough and the 1908 Olympics – Part III

Three Great Geordie Heroes

Art and the Pro-Am Divide

The Demise of Professional Rowing

Those Two Rascals, John and Ellis

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

Stuck in the Toffs’ Pigeon Hole

The Rixons: Oars, Poles, Dogs & Fists

Donald Gollan: The Nearly Man

Rowing Books for Christmas II

Going to Town with Barry

1920: Ernest Barry Wins the World Sculling Title

Bill Miller: A Hanlan Letter

Changing with the Times

Putting Rowers on a Pedestal

150 Years Since the Death of Rowing Legend Harry Clasper

Richmond Regatta: A Duck Hunt and a Pig Hunt

Rowing & People of Colour: A Few of the Few

Fixed Seat Reading III: Thames and Tyne Tideways

Sapper McDevitt – An ANZAC Rower

A Sherbet for Quarantine

The Political Courtney

With Bert on the River

Crewcial Collectables: A Nice Pair – Part I

Liquid History On Tap

Going To The Dogs

John H. Clasper Patented Countervail

Close to the Water

A Hidden History of The Thames on Show

Moving Pictures

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

Out-Foxed in Red Wing

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

The Blackstaffe Trophy: A Case of Reverse Alchemy

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

Canadian R. Fulton v. American J. Biglin

“Hadaway Harry” is Coming to Putney

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

Rescued from the Flames and Risen from the Ashes

The Thames Finds a Champion

The People’s Ned Hanlan

What are the Origins of the Modern Sport of Rowing?

New Website Celebrates the Great Harry Clasper

A Reappraisal of the Importance of the River Lea

No Swan Song For Cygnet: A review of “A History of Cygnet Rowing Club, 1890 – 2015”

A Farce on his Face

Laurie Radley’s Memories of River Lea and UK Rowing and Boatbuilding, in the early 1900s to World War II

Rowing Our Way to a Separate (and Proud) Australian Identity

Harry Clasper: Still a Hero on Tyneside

Who Was The Man At The Bow?

Celebrating Henry Searle

New Rowing Book: The Brownsville Blacksmith

Good Times in a Rat Infested Shack – Tom Green’s Boathouse

The Bonny* Boats of Newcastle

Cricket Bats and Vampire Dolphins

A Rowing Coat of Arms

Canadian Champion Sculler Ned Hanlan

From Oarsmen to Boxmen

Oars Of The Roses: The Tudor Pull

The 1897 Diamond Challenge Sculls

The Passing of a Gentleman

Rowing History Footnote: Towns Followed by Mishaps in London

Eric Lupton – The Last European Sculling Champion

A ‘Roadsculler’ Race in 1888

Henry Searle: “How I Won The World Championship”, Part 3
