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Tag: The Boat Race

Mar 24, 2020Mar 23, 2020HTBS

Oxford has the Lightweight Blues

Mar 23, 2020Mar 22, 2020HTBS

The Boat Race Lite

Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020HTBS

UK Rowing Stops

Mar 13, 2020Mar 16, 2020HTBS

Blue v Orange

Feb 28, 2020Feb 27, 2020HTBS

Dennis Menaces Boat Race Fixtures

Feb 25, 2020Feb 25, 2020HTBS

The Worst of Times and the Best of Times: Adrian Stokes’ Boat Races

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

Feb 18, 2020Feb 17, 2020HTBS

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

Jan 29, 2020Jan 28, 2020HTBS

Boat Race 2020: News of the Blues

Dec 20, 2019Dec 18, 2019HTBS

The 2020 Boat Race Trial Eights: Tab on Tab

Dec 19, 2019Dec 18, 2019HTBS

The 2020 Boat Race Trial Eights: Oxford’s Civil War

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 10, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part II – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Nov 23, 2019Nov 23, 2019HTBS

Boat Race Day 2020: Making History (Twice)

Nov 18, 2019Nov 18, 2019HTBS

Back To The Futures

Nov 1, 2019Nov 2, 2019HTBS

David Winser – One Whom The Gods Loved

Oct 24, 2019Oct 29, 2019HTBS

1948 Olympic Silver Medallist Paul Bircher Dies

Oct 17, 2019Oct 16, 2019HTBS

Old Oxford Blue Recipient of USRowing Medal of Honor

Oct 9, 2019Nov 17, 2021HTBS

James Gobbo: President of OUBC – But Not of Australia

Aug 24, 2019Aug 23, 2019HTBS

National Sporting Heritage Day: The 1829 Boat Race Letter

Jun 20, 2019Jun 19, 2019HTBS

The 1954 Boat Race: How Oxford Put Their Foot On The Gas?

Jun 18, 2019Jun 17, 2019HTBS

The Bumps of May

Jun 10, 2019Jun 10, 2019HTBS

The Boat Race at 190

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 22, 2019Apr 21, 2019HTBS

Bevis Sanford: 1939 Light Blues Stroke Dies

Apr 20, 2019Apr 19, 2019HTBS

The June 1829 Letter

Apr 16, 2019Apr 16, 2019HTBS

1968: Facetious Facts on The Boat Race

Apr 15, 2019Apr 14, 2019HTBS

Reflections on Boat Race Day

Apr 14, 2019Apr 13, 2019HTBS

Oarsmen and their Wonderful Knees and Legs

Apr 13, 2019Apr 12, 2019HTBS

Seventeen Men and a Girl

Apr 12, 2019Apr 11, 2019HTBS

Boat Race Day 2019: Images and Impressions

Apr 10, 2019Apr 9, 2019HTBS

P to M: Par For The Course

Apr 9, 2019Apr 9, 2019HTBS

Boat Race Day 2019: Who said what and plus ça change

Apr 7, 2019Apr 6, 2019HTBS

Oxford – not the best crew in Oxford (to be fair, Cambridge wouldn’t be either)

Apr 5, 2019Apr 5, 2019HTBS

Looking Forward To The Boat Race?

Mar 20, 2019Aug 24, 2019HTBS

1829: A Letter Means So Much

Mar 17, 2019Mar 16, 2019HTBS

Weighing Up The Blues

Mar 13, 2019Mar 10, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: A Decade of Decisive Moments

Mar 7, 2019Mar 7, 2019HTBS

RRM@21 – 8: Five Fours to Fathom

Mar 5, 2019Mar 5, 2019HTBS

The Great River Rowed

Mar 1, 2019Feb 27, 2019HTBS

RRM@21 – 6: Ocean Gig to Carbon Tiger

Feb 27, 2019Feb 27, 2019HTBS

F. S. Kelly: A Virtuoso at the Oars and the Piano

Jan 7, 2019Jan 6, 2019HTBS

Betrayal in the Boat Club – Oxford University Boat Club, that is

Jan 2, 2019Jan 2, 2019HTBS

Blackadder Goes Forth

Dec 10, 2018Dec 11, 2018HTBS

Oxford’s Boat Race Trials: Flea Bites, Comet Soars

Dec 3, 2018Dec 19, 2018HTBS

Tokyo’s Sokei Regatta: One of the Big Three?

Nov 1, 2018Oct 31, 2018HTBS

Oxford and Cambridge to make Light Work of the Tideway

Oct 5, 2018Oct 4, 2018HTBS

Barry, Beeb, Blues and the BR on the Box

Sep 24, 2018Sep 23, 2018HTBS

Brothers, Boats, Blades and Beer – Academic Rowing Clubs in Germany

Aug 4, 2018Aug 4, 2018HTBS

Michael Lapage 1923 – 2018

May 30, 2018May 29, 2018HTBS

Comic Cuts: A Few Hints on the Subject of Oarsmanship

May 18, 2018May 18, 2018HTBS

Keeping it in the Family

Apr 12, 2018Apr 11, 2018HTBS

Rob Baker New Chief Coach of CUBC

Apr 11, 2018Apr 12, 2018HTBS

Rebels on the River – Part II

Apr 10, 2018Apr 14, 2018HTBS

Rebels on the River – Part I

Mar 28, 2018Mar 28, 2018HTBS

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

Mar 26, 2018Apr 8, 2018HTBS

The 2018 Boat Races: Cambridge is the Big Dog in the Fight

Mar 24, 2018Mar 27, 2018HTBS

Today Is Boat Race Day: Let Battle Commence

Mar 23, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Boat Race Quiz – The Answers

Mar 22, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Facing the Dark Blue Music

Mar 21, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Can Bowden Do A Topolski?

Mar 20, 2018Mar 20, 2018HTBS

Not to Paddle, but to Dine

Mar 19, 2018Mar 18, 2018HTBS

Dinner Date for Two

Mar 19, 2018Mar 18, 2018HTBS

The Boat Race and Tideway Week: Eat, Sleep, Row

Mar 17, 2018Mar 17, 2018HTBS

It’s either Oxford or Cambridge

Mar 9, 2018Mar 6, 2018HTBS

Suffragettes and Sport: Legitimate Targets?

Mar 7, 2018Mar 7, 2018HTBS

Weekend Warriors

Mar 5, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Boat Race Quiz: Blue Teasers

Feb 28, 2018Feb 28, 2018HTBS

Weighing Up The Boat Race Crews

Feb 26, 2018Feb 25, 2018HTBS

Neighbours at War: Oxford v Brookes

Feb 19, 2018Feb 18, 2018HTBS

The Nile Boat Races: ‘A Confusion of Fun’ or ‘Beaten by a Dead Donkey’

Jan 26, 2018Jan 26, 2018HTBS

Rowing’s Continuation and Resilience in Wartime Oxford

Dec 29, 2017Jan 22, 2018HTBS

Backsplash: The Rowing History Conference – Talk by Peter Mallory, Part III

Dec 21, 2017Dec 20, 2017HTBS

BARJ Lives!

Dec 20, 2017Dec 20, 2017HTBS

The Rule of a ‘Click’: The End of Writing on Rowing? – Part III

Dec 18, 2017Dec 21, 2017HTBS

The Rule of a ‘Click’: The End of Writing on Rowing? – Part I

Dec 9, 2017Dec 8, 2017HTBS

The Oxford Men’s Trial Eights: Out Of The Strong Came Forth Swiftness*

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