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Tag: The Boat Race

Mar 30, 2024Mar 29, 2024HTBS

The Boat Race: Living History

Mar 29, 2024Mar 29, 2024HTBS

Tideway Week: Not For The Weak

Mar 28, 2024Mar 28, 2024HTBS

The Boat Race: Not For Hire Or Reward

Mar 27, 2024Mar 26, 2024HTBS

The Boat Race: Faster Than A Polka, Slower Than An Elephant

Mar 26, 2024Mar 25, 2024HTBS

Building a Winning Blue Boat in 1907

Mar 24, 2024Mar 24, 2024HTBS

Turning The Tide: Episode 3 – “The Kettle Boils Over”

Mar 23, 2024Mar 24, 2024HTBS

Oars with a Catch

Mar 22, 2024Mar 21, 2024HTBS

Turning The Tide: Episode 2 – “There’s always something”

Mar 19, 2024Mar 18, 2024HTBS

The Titan Who Ran Rings Round Olympia

Mar 16, 2024Mar 15, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race Crew Announcement: Two Icons Meet

Mar 14, 2024Mar 13, 2024HTBS

Turning The Tide – Episode 1

Mar 12, 2024Mar 11, 2024HTBS

The HTBS Quindecennial

Mar 11, 2024Mar 11, 2024HTBS

A Tale of Two Blades

Mar 4, 2024Mar 3, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race Fixtures: 12-Weeks of Warming Up, Part II

Feb 26, 2024Feb 25, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race Fixtures: 12-Weeks of Warming Up, Part I

Feb 9, 2024Feb 8, 2024HTBS

Henley’s Rowing Museum (Version 1.0)

Feb 8, 2024Feb 7, 2024HTBS

Titan of the Thames: The Life of Lord Desborough

Jan 26, 2024Jan 25, 2024HTBS

Buckle Up

Jan 3, 2024Jan 2, 2024HTBS

Supermac: The Last Edwardian

Dec 23, 2023Dec 23, 2023HTBS

Cambridge Men’s Trial Eights: Blue Steel

Dec 23, 2023Dec 23, 2023HTBS

Oxford Men’s Trial Eights: Noise Goes Up To 11 And Fights Off A Panic Attack 

Dec 22, 2023Dec 21, 2023HTBS

Oxford Women’s Trial Eights: Fratricide

Dec 16, 2023Dec 15, 2023HTBS

A Day At The Museum

Dec 12, 2023Apr 10, 2024HTBS

Trials On The Thames

Nov 29, 2023Nov 28, 2023HTBS

Blues Funk Part II

Nov 28, 2023Nov 29, 2023HTBS

Blues Funk Part I

Nov 21, 2023Nov 20, 2023HTBS

University Challenge*

Nov 14, 2023Nov 14, 2023HTBS

Boat Race Night: A Certain Licence

Nov 9, 2023Nov 8, 2023HTBS

Ticker-Tape Parade for the 1930 Diamonds Winner

Nov 7, 2023Nov 6, 2023HTBS

Shafted

Oct 16, 2023Oct 15, 2023HTBS

Alex Wilson Releases Second CD with Music Composed by F. S Kelly

Sep 30, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

Siobhan Cassidy is New Chair of the BRCL Board

Sep 22, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

Chester Regatta, Part I: Old But How Old?

Aug 8, 2023Dec 10, 2024HTBS

Book Review: Gavin Jamieson’s “Water’s Gleaming Gold”

Jul 31, 2023Jul 30, 2023HTBS

Artsy Fartsy Rowing Quiz

Jul 28, 2023Jul 27, 2023HTBS

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

Jul 22, 2023Jul 22, 2023HTBS

The 2023 Doggett’s: A Good Wager

Jun 30, 2023Jun 30, 2023HTBS

The Woodgate Treasures from Henley

Jun 17, 2023Jun 16, 2023HTBS

War And Peace: The Life of Hugh “Jumbo” Edwards

Jun 12, 2023Jun 12, 2023HTBS

Yale Crews Give Gladstone Three Victories

May 6, 2023May 6, 2023HTBS

Rowing: Still Not the Sport of Kings

May 4, 2023May 3, 2023HTBS

Pink Water at Westminster

May 1, 2023Aug 5, 2024HTBS

Death on the Charles

Apr 24, 2023Apr 23, 2023HTBS

Train-ing for Henley

Apr 20, 2023Apr 19, 2023HTBS

Gavin Jamieson’s Water’s Gleaming Gold Is Soon Out

Apr 17, 2023Apr 17, 2023HTBS

2023 Boat Races Revisited

Apr 6, 2023Apr 5, 2023HTBS

First 50-Year Reunion for Cambridge Women

Apr 5, 2023Apr 4, 2023HTBS

Boat Race Day From Three Perspectives. Part III: At The Finish

Apr 4, 2023Apr 3, 2023HTBS

Boat Race Day From Three Perspectives. Part II: On The Water

Apr 3, 2023Apr 2, 2023HTBS

Boat Race Day From Three Perspectives. Part I: The Start

Apr 2, 2023Apr 2, 2023HTBS

P to M On Couch And Box

Mar 28, 2023Mar 28, 2023HTBS

Felix Drinkall: The Boat Race Personified 

Mar 25, 2023Mar 24, 2023HTBS

The 2023 Boat Race: Images of Tideway Week

Mar 24, 2023Apr 2, 2023HTBS

Sunday’s Boat Races: Looking Forwards By Looking Backwards

Mar 23, 2023Mar 22, 2023HTBS

Following The Boat Races Through The Years

Mar 20, 2023Mar 19, 2023HTBS

What Are The Odds? The 2023 Boat Races Form Guide

Mar 18, 2023Mar 17, 2023HTBS

Post Modern

Mar 15, 2023Mar 14, 2023HTBS

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

Mar 14, 2023Mar 16, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part II, 1902-03

Mar 13, 2023Mar 12, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part I, 1901-02

Mar 9, 2023Apr 1, 2023HTBS

Happy To Be Blue

Feb 23, 2023Feb 25, 2023HTBS

Tickled Pink: A New Rowing History

Feb 22, 2023Feb 21, 2023HTBS

A Trinity 1859 Tankard

Feb 21, 2023Feb 21, 2023HTBS

May Time V

Feb 16, 2023Feb 15, 2023HTBS

RIP Raquel Welch

Feb 9, 2023Feb 8, 2023HTBS

May Time IV: Family Connections

Feb 4, 2023Feb 4, 2023HTBS

The Boat Race: From Vitaphone To YouTube

Jan 27, 2023Jan 26, 2023HTBS

Chris Medals

Jan 19, 2023Jan 19, 2023HTBS

Not Going Spare: Brothers Pulling Together

Jan 16, 2023Jan 17, 2023HTBS

Chaloke Komarakul-na-Nagara: First of the Few

Jan 11, 2023Jan 10, 2023HTBS

Alan Burrough: Gin and Bear It

Jan 9, 2023Jan 8, 2023HTBS

No New Dawn For Hammersmith Bridge

Dec 30, 2022Dec 30, 2022HTBS

Looking Forward 

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

Dec 8, 2022Dec 7, 2022HTBS

Eights Online

Dec 6, 2022Dec 6, 2022HTBS

Not Cuckoo: Signs of Spring

Dec 3, 2022Dec 2, 2022HTBS

Blues, Brown, Boris, Bruce and Buccaneers in the Boat Race, Part II

Dec 2, 2022Dec 1, 2022HTBS

Blues, Brown, Boris, Bruce and Buccaneers in the Boat Race, Part I

Nov 29, 2022Nov 28, 2022HTBS

Aylings: The Racing Blade Experts

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