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Tag: The Boat Race

Mar 23, 2021Mar 22, 2021HTBS

Alf: The Twinn Who Was One Of A Kind

Mar 15, 2021Mar 14, 2021HTBS

Charles Merivale: Looking Down On The 2021 Boat Race

Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021HTBS

The Boat Race Welcomes The Heavenly Twins

Mar 9, 2021Mar 8, 2021HTBS

Maurice Phelps: Chronicler of the Dynasty 

Mar 5, 2021Mar 5, 2021HTBS

Frivolously Friday: Cambridge, 1898

Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021HTBS

Throwback Thursday: Oxford 1912

Feb 26, 2021Feb 25, 2021HTBS

Stuck in the Toffs’ Pigeon Hole

Feb 17, 2021Feb 16, 2021HTBS

Muttle’s Volte-Face

Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021HTBS

Colin Porter: A Rebel with a Cause

Jan 18, 2021Jan 17, 2021HTBS

St George Ashe, Part I: A Dragon Slayer?

Jan 14, 2021Jan 20, 2021HTBS

Bill Windham, RIP: A Great Oarsman

Jan 9, 2021Jan 8, 2021HTBS

CUBC 1939: Cissies who Laughed Last…

Jan 7, 2021Jan 6, 2021HTBS

The Cerebral Giant

Jan 4, 2021Jan 3, 2021HTBS

The Burnell Albums

Jan 1, 2021Dec 31, 2020HTBS

I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Bl-Ouse*

Dec 30, 2020Dec 29, 2020HTBS

Martin: A Cross that’s Good to Bear

Dec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020HTBS

Ouse-ing with Talent: The 2021 Boat Race Trials

Dec 26, 2020Dec 24, 2020HTBS

No Humbug: The Spirit of The Boat Race Yet to Come

Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020HTBS

The Importance of Weil, Thomas E.

Dec 8, 2020Dec 8, 2020HTBS

Rowing Books for Christmas II

Dec 5, 2020Dec 4, 2020HTBS

It’s A Date

Dec 1, 2020Dec 1, 2020HTBS

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

Nov 28, 2020Nov 28, 2020HTBS

Laid Back 

Nov 27, 2020Nov 26, 2020HTBS

The 2021 Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race: E to L

Nov 23, 2020Nov 24, 2020HTBS

The 1937 Oxford Crew at Ranelagh

Nov 19, 2020Nov 18, 2020HTBS

Brawn v Brains

Nov 16, 2020Nov 15, 2020HTBS

Crossing the Line

Nov 14, 2020Nov 13, 2020HTBS

Not the 1873 Boat Race

Nov 13, 2020Nov 12, 2020HTBS

Richard Henry Dana III: An American Oarsman in England – Part III

Nov 11, 2020Nov 11, 2020HTBS

Richard Henry Dana III: An American Oarsman in England – Part I

Nov 9, 2020Nov 9, 2020HTBS

The Unquiet Australian

Oct 15, 2020Nov 28, 2020HTBS

Adrian Stokes: A Happy Coincidence

Oct 13, 2020Oct 12, 2020HTBS

The New CUBC:  ‘The Best of the Old, with the Promise of the New’

Sep 24, 2020Sep 24, 2020HTBS

Cuthbert Lempriere Holthouse: The Man with the Last Wooden Spoon

Sep 15, 2020Sep 15, 2020HTBS

Gavin Jamieson: Jumbo’s 1927 Metropolitan Medal

Sep 12, 2020Sep 11, 2020HTBS

The 1950s River Thames – Free Shows

Sep 4, 2020Sep 3, 2020HTBS

Keeping the Fight Within the Crew

Sep 2, 2020Sep 1, 2020HTBS

David Mercer: The Perfect Gentleman

Sep 1, 2020Sep 1, 2020HTBS

2020: Awaiting the Four Oarsmen of the Apocalypse

Aug 26, 2020Aug 26, 2020HTBS

Fishing for Compliments

Aug 21, 2020Aug 20, 2020HTBS

Mark Blandford-Baker: A Letter of Recommendation

Aug 7, 2020Aug 9, 2020HTBS

A 1954 Oxford Rowing Footnote

Aug 3, 2020Aug 5, 2020HTBS

Göran Buckhorn: Rudie’s Medals and Plaques

Jul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020HTBS

Chris Dodd: A Few of my Favourite Things

Jul 20, 2020Jul 19, 2020HTBS

Changing with the Times

Jul 17, 2020Jan 4, 2026HTBS

Thor Nilsen: The Great God and the Big Teacher – Part II

Jul 12, 2020Jul 11, 2020HTBS

150 Years Since the Death of Rowing Legend Harry Clasper

Jul 4, 2020Jul 3, 2020HTBS

HRR 2020: Henley at Home

Jun 30, 2020Jun 29, 2020HTBS

Fair Games

Jun 18, 2020Jun 17, 2020HTBS

Remembering Rowing and the River During Lockdown

Jun 17, 2020Jun 16, 2020HTBS

Renaissance Man: Christ Rodrigues from Jesus

Jun 10, 2020Jun 10, 2020HTBS

Clubs and Boathouses of the Tideway: Part III

Jun 4, 2020Jun 3, 2020HTBS

Hey Christo! April Foolery Under Wraps

May 28, 2020Jul 26, 2020HTBS

The Literate and Rowing Lewises – II

May 27, 2020May 28, 2020HTBS

The Literate and Rowing Lewises – I

May 25, 2020May 24, 2020HTBS

Fixed Seat Reading III: Thames and Tyne Tideways

May 19, 2020May 18, 2020HTBS

#lastnormalphoto

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020HTBS

May Time III:II ‘WB’

May 12, 2020May 11, 2020HTBS

The Other Parts of Rowing (TOPOR) V – Accidents and Agonies Across the Finish Line

May 11, 2020May 16, 2020HTBS

Regatta’s Presses Fall Silent

May 10, 2020May 9, 2020HTBS

Cambridge University Rowers Find Unity Amidst Isolation

May 7, 2020May 6, 2020HTBS

The Boat Race and Who Went To It

Apr 29, 2020Apr 28, 2020HTBS

The Unique Badge of Sir T. A. Cook

Apr 24, 2020Apr 23, 2020HTBS

May Time II

Apr 23, 2020Apr 23, 2020HTBS

The Boat Race on TV

Apr 20, 2020Apr 20, 2020HTBS

Saying Something of the Dog…

Apr 18, 2020Apr 18, 2020HTBS

The Magic Christian at 50+

Apr 17, 2020Apr 16, 2020HTBS

A Hundred Years from Now

Apr 14, 2020Apr 13, 2020HTBS

A Sub-River Boat Race A.D. 1950?

Apr 13, 2020Apr 10, 2020HTBS

The Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Apr 11, 2020Apr 11, 2020HTBS

Carrying Doggedly On…

Apr 10, 2020Apr 11, 2020HTBS

Ronnie and Shades of Blue

Apr 9, 2020Apr 9, 2020HTBS

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

Apr 8, 2020Apr 7, 2020HTBS

The Idol of the Hour

Apr 7, 2020Apr 6, 2020HTBS

Clement Attlee: None Smarter

Apr 3, 2020Apr 2, 2020HTBS

May Time I

Apr 2, 2020Apr 3, 2020HTBS

Poet’s Pub

Mar 30, 2020Mar 29, 2020HTBS

143 years ago at the Boat Race…

Mar 29, 2020Mar 29, 2020HTBS

The Day That Never Was

Mar 27, 2020Mar 26, 2020HTBS

It Gets Verse and Verse: Hargrave, An Aquatic McGonagall

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