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Mar 13, 2026Mar 12, 2026HTBS

David Burnford: From Blue Boat To Breaking Bad

Feb 2, 2026Feb 2, 2026HTBS

Interview with Hugh Maltby: When Rowing Runs in Your Blood

Jul 28, 2023Jul 27, 2023HTBS

Q&A: Gavin Jamieson on his Biography of Jumbo Edwards

Nov 10, 2022Nov 10, 2022HTBS

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

Apr 6, 2021Apr 8, 2021HTBS

Keep it in the Family

Mar 23, 2021Mar 22, 2021HTBS

Alf: The Twinn Who Was One Of A Kind

Mar 9, 2021Mar 8, 2021HTBS

Maurice Phelps: Chronicler of the Dynasty 

May 28, 2020Jul 26, 2020HTBS

The Literate and Rowing Lewises – II

Apr 9, 2020Apr 9, 2020HTBS

John Hall-Craggs, 1931 – 2020: A quiet man who got things done

Jan 2, 2019Jan 2, 2019HTBS

Blackadder Goes Forth

Dec 6, 2018Dec 19, 2018HTBS

Henley Rules, OK?*

May 25, 2018Feb 23, 2024HTBS

How to Prove you are an Englishman in a War

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016HTBS

The 1956 Winning Letter

Apr 16, 2015Apr 14, 2015HTBS

Rowers Worth a Movie?

Mar 4, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

The 1933 Cambridge Trial Eights Heat

Dec 4, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Malcolm Cook: Shaved Blades were used in the Boat Race in the 1920s and 1930s

Nov 25, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The Big Man’s Boat

Nov 21, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Time for ‘Jack & Ran’?

Sep 27, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Ran Laurie – The Man with the Narrow Blade?

Aug 19, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Book Review: The Boys in the Boat

Aug 27, 2012Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Noel Duckworth: ‘Small of Stature, Great of Heart’

Aug 9, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

9 August 1948: The Final Day At The Olympic Rowing Regatta In Henley

May 2, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Heavy Boys?

Mar 26, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

New Exhibits At The River & Rowing Museum

Dec 8, 2011Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Jock Lewes: Famous Oxford Blue & SAS Soldier

Aug 25, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

One Push…

Jul 25, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Men Of A Certain Breed

Dec 13, 2009Apr 25, 2014Ellen

More Laurie

Oct 18, 2009Oct 18, 2009Ellen

Another Laurie-Wilson Cambridge Film

Oct 18, 2009Apr 25, 2014Ellen

More Rowing Films – Good And Bad

Jun 2, 2009Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Ran Laurie & Jack Wilson

Jun 1, 2009Apr 8, 2023Ellen

The Rowing Lauries

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