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Tag: The Boat Race

Nov 28, 2022Nov 28, 2022HTBS

The Fictional Life of Jock Lewes

Nov 18, 2022Nov 21, 2022HTBS

Rowing in Verse and Worse 

Nov 10, 2022Nov 10, 2022HTBS

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

Nov 9, 2022Nov 9, 2022HTBS

Jock Lewes: From Tideway to Tobruk – Part I 

Nov 1, 2022Nov 1, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Wingfields: The Championship Course Lives up to its Name

Oct 24, 2022Oct 24, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Wingfield Sculls: Who Will Be Best Of The Best?

Oct 20, 2022Oct 20, 2022HTBS

Two Presidents: Betty And Monkey

Oct 9, 2022Oct 11, 2022HTBS

Eamonn McCabe: Three Lives Through The Lens

Sep 12, 2022Sep 11, 2022HTBS

A Period of National Mourning

Aug 25, 2022Aug 25, 2022HTBS

Happy Birthday Steve!

Jul 29, 2022Jul 29, 2022HTBS

Stanley Muttlebury’s Florentine Excursion?

Jul 28, 2022Jul 27, 2022HTBS

Duncan Clegg: Hero and Heavy

Jun 27, 2022Jun 26, 2022HTBS

Cameo of the Cam

Jun 18, 2022Jun 17, 2022HTBS

Winemaker and Oarsman Josh Jensen Dies at 78

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022HTBS

Mark Jabalé: My Conversion to Rowing

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022HTBS

The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part I: Preamble

Apr 25, 2022Apr 26, 2025HTBS

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

Apr 12, 2022Apr 11, 2022HTBS

The Boat Race Day Festival of Rowing and Oxbridge Challenge 2022

Apr 9, 2022Apr 9, 2022HTBS

The Boat Race Comes Home

Apr 8, 2022Apr 10, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part III – After

Apr 7, 2022Apr 7, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part II – During

Apr 6, 2022Apr 5, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part I – Before

Apr 4, 2022Apr 4, 2022HTBS

“No” to the Fulham Pier!

Apr 4, 2022Apr 4, 2022HTBS

Breaking News

Apr 3, 2022Apr 2, 2022HTBS

Relative Rowing

Apr 2, 2022Apr 1, 2022HTBS

A Tideway Week Album: The Oxford Men

Apr 1, 2022Mar 31, 2022HTBS

A Tideway Week Album: The Cambridge Men

Mar 31, 2022Mar 31, 2022HTBS

HTBS Interview with Oxford’s Annie Anezakis

Mar 25, 2022Mar 24, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Reading the Runes

Mar 9, 2022Mar 30, 2022HTBS

Turning Blue: The 2022 Boat Race Crews

Feb 19, 2022Feb 18, 2022HTBS

BlueTube

Feb 18, 2022Feb 18, 2022HTBS

William Grenfell’s ‘Rowing at Oxford’

Feb 15, 2022Feb 14, 2022HTBS

More Pieces of Eight

Feb 11, 2022Feb 11, 2022HTBS

Barnes Bridge: In Life, Sport and Art

Feb 1, 2022Feb 15, 2022HTBS

How Oxford Won The Boat Race

Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Beating the Blues?

Jan 25, 2022Jan 25, 2022HTBS

Pieces of Eight

Jan 8, 2022Jan 7, 2022HTBS

Let Slip the Dogs of Oar: The Cambridge Women’s Trial Eights

Dec 22, 2021Dec 21, 2021HTBS

The Can Tabs and the Can’t Tabs: The Cambridge Men’s Trial Eights

Dec 21, 2021Dec 20, 2021HTBS

Eighteen Into Nine Won’t Go: The Oxford Men’s Trial Eights

Dec 18, 2021Dec 17, 2021HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Trials: Keeping in the Stream

Dec 16, 2021Dec 15, 2021HTBS

East is East – Or is He?

Dec 3, 2021Dec 3, 2021HTBS

At The Pictures: A Hundred Thousand Oarsmen

Nov 23, 2021Nov 22, 2021HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race: Throwing Down the Pogie

Nov 12, 2021Nov 11, 2021HTBS

The Fitzwilliam Museum: Where the Lion lies down with the Ox*

Nov 9, 2021Nov 8, 2021HTBS

John Millbourn, Oarsman, Coach and Regatta Administrator, Dies

Nov 6, 2021Nov 23, 2021HTBS

Time to Grow a Mo!

Nov 3, 2021Nov 2, 2021HTBS

Article on Boat Race Posters Removed

Oct 18, 2021Oct 17, 2021HTBS

Champions Return to the Championship Course

Sep 28, 2021Sep 28, 2021HTBS

A Golden Age Captured in Monochrome

Aug 27, 2021Aug 26, 2021HTBS

News from Cambridge

Aug 23, 2021Aug 23, 2021HTBS

Adrian Stokes: Oxford Blue, Henley Winner and a Typical Wykhamist

Aug 12, 2021Aug 13, 2021HTBS

Rosewell of the Times

Aug 4, 2021Aug 3, 2021HTBS

Jumbo Edwards – “Water’s Gleaming Gold”

Jul 24, 2021Jul 24, 2021HTBS

Rachel Quarrell: The Woman on the Spot

Jul 23, 2021Sep 29, 2021HTBS

The 1908 Olympic Games – Part III

Jul 20, 2021Jul 20, 2021HTBS

Good Friday

Jul 5, 2021Jul 4, 2021HTBS

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

Jun 16, 2021Jun 16, 2021HTBS

Fund for Working with Young People

May 27, 2021May 28, 2021HTBS

Rowing Around The Bay

May 22, 2021May 22, 2021HTBS

LAF Stokes R.I.P.

May 3, 2021May 4, 2021HTBS

Bumped Off

Apr 29, 2021Apr 29, 2021HTBS

Like Water Under A Troubled Bridge?*

Apr 27, 2021Apr 27, 2021HTBS

Ely-ation for Cambridge: Light Blues Again Make it Four out of Four

Apr 21, 2021Apr 20, 2021HTBS

Rowing History’s Baker Street Irregulars

Apr 10, 2021Apr 10, 2021HTBS

2021 Boat Races Revisited

Apr 9, 2021Apr 9, 2021HTBS

HRH Prince Philip

Apr 8, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

The 1900 Boat Race: Brother Against Brother

Apr 7, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

A Silver Lining for a Blue Cloud?

Apr 6, 2021Apr 8, 2021HTBS

Keep it in the Family

Apr 5, 2021Apr 7, 2021HTBS

Cambridge Hone Home Waters Their Way

Apr 5, 2021Apr 4, 2021HTBS

A Little Bird Told Me…

Apr 4, 2021Apr 3, 2021HTBS

The Race, Never Ending

Apr 4, 2021Apr 3, 2021HTBS

Boat Race Reminder

Apr 3, 2021Apr 3, 2021HTBS

Should the Boat Race Rowers Worry About Gemini?

Apr 2, 2021Apr 1, 2021HTBS

The Boat Race of ’21: Two Days to go, a Hundred Years Gone

Mar 29, 2021Mar 28, 2021HTBS

Two’s A Crowd…

Mar 28, 2021Mar 28, 2021HTBS

Yes, But What Do They Actually Spend It On?

Mar 27, 2021Mar 26, 2021HTBS

Yes, But What Do They Actually Do?

Mar 26, 2021Mar 25, 2021HTBS

In Ely-sian Fields

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