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Tag: Steve Fairbairn

6 days ago Mar 18, 2023Mar 17, 2023HTBS

Post Modern

1 week ago Mar 15, 2023Mar 14, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part III, 1903-05

Mar 2, 2023Mar 4, 2023HTBS

The Greatest Rowing Stories

Feb 9, 2023Feb 8, 2023HTBS

May Time IV: Family Connections

Feb 6, 2023Feb 5, 2023HTBS

The End of the Wiking Saga

Jan 25, 2023Feb 5, 2023HTBS

The Boys in the German Boat: Wikings at the 1936 Olympics – Part II

Jan 24, 2023Feb 4, 2023HTBS

The Boys in the German Boat: Wikings at the 1936 Olympics – Part I

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

Nov 10, 2022Nov 10, 2022HTBS

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

Aug 25, 2022Aug 25, 2022HTBS

Happy Birthday Steve!

Mar 28, 2022Mar 27, 2022HTBS

Going To Steve’s Head

Mar 26, 2022Mar 25, 2022HTBS

The Race of a Thousand Oarsmen – All With Shiny Shoes

Feb 6, 2022Feb 5, 2022HTBS

The Queen’s Head

Nov 11, 2021Nov 10, 2021HTBS

The Thames: Assisting the Enemy

Oct 29, 2021Oct 29, 2021HTBS

Allan Seager’s Joy on the River Isis

Jul 9, 2021Jul 8, 2021HTBS

The Test of Time

Jul 5, 2021Jul 4, 2021HTBS

90 Years Ago, a HRR Triple-Win for Jumbo Edwards

Apr 6, 2021Apr 8, 2021HTBS

Keep it in the Family

Mar 25, 2021Jul 25, 2021HTBS

Bernhard von Gaza: Olympian, Champion Sculler, Writer and Soldier

Mar 22, 2021Mar 22, 2021HTBS

The Winner Takes It All

Feb 1, 2021Jan 31, 2021HTBS

Simon Crosse: London RC’s Architect Dies

Jan 12, 2021Jan 12, 2021HTBS

Dick, Gray, Eton, Freddy, Steve and two Elliotts: Or Never Judge an Oarsman

Dec 1, 2020Dec 1, 2020HTBS

R.C. Sherriff: Soldier, Writer and Oarsman – Part II

Sep 15, 2020Sep 15, 2020HTBS

Gavin Jamieson: Jumbo’s 1927 Metropolitan Medal

Sep 4, 2020Sep 3, 2020HTBS

Keeping the Fight Within the Crew

Aug 29, 2020Aug 28, 2020HTBS

What are “heel-stops”?

Aug 3, 2020Aug 5, 2020HTBS

Göran Buckhorn: Rudie’s Medals and Plaques

Jul 16, 2020Nov 23, 2020HTBS

Thor Nilsen: Rowing’s Global Coach – Part I

May 30, 2020May 30, 2020HTBS

The Art Of Buying Rowing Books – Or How Much Did You Say?

May 28, 2020Jul 26, 2020HTBS

The Literate and Rowing Lewises – II

Apr 24, 2020Apr 23, 2020HTBS

May Time II

Apr 22, 2020Apr 21, 2020HTBS

Fixed Seat Reading

Apr 20, 2020Apr 20, 2020HTBS

Saying Something of the Dog…

Mar 12, 2020Mar 11, 2020HTBS

HTBS at 11: The Song Remains the Same

Feb 20, 2020Feb 20, 2020HTBS

Jumbo Edwards: Oarsman, Coach and RAF Pilot – Part IV

Feb 19, 2020Feb 19, 2020HTBS

Jumbo Edwards: Oarsman, Coach and RAF Pilot – Part III

Jan 13, 2020Jan 12, 2020HTBS

The Gospel According to Steve

Dec 12, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part IV – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Dec 11, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part III – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Dec 9, 2019Dec 9, 2019HTBS

Part I – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Oct 9, 2019Nov 17, 2021HTBS

James Gobbo: President of OUBC – But Not of Australia

Jul 16, 2019Jul 16, 2019HTBS

Hooray Henley

Jun 21, 2019Jun 20, 2019HTBS

Swingtime with Hitler

May 14, 2019May 13, 2019HTBS

From the World War I Trenches to the King’s Cup

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019HTBS

Picture Post: More From The HTBS Photo Archive

Apr 10, 2019Apr 9, 2019HTBS

P to M: Par For The Course

Apr 2, 2019Apr 1, 2019HTBS

Gender Non-Binary: The 2019 Head of the River Race

Mar 30, 2019Mar 29, 2019HTBS

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

Mar 12, 2019Mar 11, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: For HTBS Types… and Maybe Some Others

Nov 11, 2018Nov 11, 2018HTBS

London’s Tablet of Memories 

Oct 4, 2018Oct 4, 2018HTBS

Rob van Mesdag: The Final Farewells

Jun 22, 2018Jun 21, 2018HTBS

Moving Pictures

May 10, 2018May 10, 2018HTBS

A book ‘flavored with vintage Fairbairn’

Mar 28, 2018Mar 28, 2018HTBS

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

Mar 15, 2018Mar 14, 2018HTBS

Head-to-Head-to-Head-to-Head

Oct 30, 2017Oct 29, 2017HTBS

 Tales of Row

Aug 9, 2017Aug 8, 2017HTBS

A Snapshot of Rowing in the 1890s

Aug 4, 2017Aug 4, 2017HTBS

Mixing up the Genders

Jul 8, 2017Jul 8, 2017HTBS

Going For Silver: Henley Finals, Part I

Apr 17, 2017Apr 18, 2017HTBS

Thames on the Thames

Apr 10, 2017Apr 9, 2017HTBS

The Boat Races Revisited

Apr 6, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

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

Mar 24, 2017Mar 24, 2017HTBS

A Blow To The Head

Feb 3, 2017Feb 3, 2017HTBS

The Oarsman Who Gave The Film Star Her Name

Nov 9, 2016Nov 23, 2016HTBS

Don’t Smile For The Camera: Some Old Crew Pictures

Aug 19, 2016Aug 19, 2016HTBS

Douglas ‘Ducker’ McLean

May 30, 2016May 30, 2016HTBS

Kilometres Make Champions*

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016HTBS

The 1956 Winning Letter

Apr 29, 2015Apr 28, 2015HTBS

‘Cuthy’ – The Geelong Grammar School Rowing Poet

Mar 20, 2015Mar 19, 2015HTBS

“Paris or the Bush” now in Post-Production

Jan 24, 2015Jan 24, 2015HTBS

Win or Lose – and Our Saviour

Dec 30, 2014Dec 29, 2014HTBS

Merry Rowing Christmas in 1939

Dec 1, 2014Nov 30, 2014HTBS

‘Mileage makes Champions’ – New Edition of Steve Fairbairn on Rowing

Mar 20, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

With a Nice Touch from the ’30s

Jan 9, 2014Jun 1, 2020HTBS

What a Wonderful Cultural Achievement!

Jun 6, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Steve, Jack and Bossie Found in Cyberspace

Mar 19, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Trois hommes dans un bateau (sans parler du chien)

Jan 3, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Rowing History Footnote: The Race that Ended with a Fight

Mar 16, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

‘The Song Of The Stroke’

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