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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, 2023Oct 16, 2026HTBS

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

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

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