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Tag: The Boat Race

Dec 8, 2017Dec 8, 2017HTBS

Cambridge Trial Eights

Oct 21, 2017Oct 21, 2017HTBS

A BBC Series That Will Float Your Boat

Sep 30, 2017Oct 1, 2017HTBS

Competitive Women’s Rowing in Britain since 1945: The Shadow of the 19th Century

Aug 4, 2017Aug 4, 2017HTBS

Mixing up the Genders

Jul 13, 2017Jul 11, 2017HTBS

New Club Presidents for the 2018 Boat Races

Jul 6, 2017Jul 5, 2019HTBS

The 1960 Boat Race: Oxford’s Adrian Stokes’s Rare Footage

Jun 27, 2017Jun 26, 2017HTBS

The Sixties Swinger

Jun 9, 2017Jun 9, 2017HTBS

The Rowing Flemings – Part II: The Man with the Golden Oar

May 3, 2017May 4, 2017HTBS

The Boat Race 1946: It’s Oxford!

Apr 25, 2017Apr 24, 2017HTBS

The Fallen Are Not Forgotten

Apr 12, 2017Apr 11, 2017HTBS

Not the Boat Race!

Apr 10, 2017Apr 9, 2017HTBS

The Boat Races Revisited

Apr 9, 2017Apr 9, 2017HTBS

Pictures of Match Race Men (and Women): Part II

Apr 6, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Pictures of Match Race Men* (and Women): Part 1 of 2

Apr 4, 2017Apr 6, 2017HTBS

Boat Race Day: plus ça change…

Apr 3, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Battles of Blues from the Couch

Apr 2, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Observing Oxford, Contemplating Cambridge: Viewing the Boat Race

Apr 1, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Blue Moods

Apr 1, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Tomorrow’s Oxford–Cambridge Boat Races: The Results?

Mar 31, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Contenders On The Waterfront: Pictures From Tideway Week, Part II

Mar 30, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Voices of Boat Races Past 1: GC Dicker Talks on Rowing in 1875

Mar 29, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Charles Dickens Jr. on the Boat Race: The Best of Times has become The Worst of Times

Mar 28, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

The Oxford–Cambridge Boat Races: The Countdown Has Begun

Mar 27, 2017Mar 27, 2017HTBS

Rowing Through The Ages

Mar 22, 2017Mar 22, 2017HTBS

Fragments of the True Oar

Mar 16, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Weigh Enough*?

Mar 13, 2017Mar 12, 2017HTBS

“True Blue” and Supper at Leander Club

Mar 3, 2017Mar 2, 2017HTBS

Viewing of “True Blue” and Supper at Leander

Mar 1, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Want to Bet?

Feb 23, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

The 2017 Boat Race* Fixtures: The Story So Far

Feb 16, 2017Feb 15, 2017HTBS

Paris or the Bush at Leander Club

Feb 6, 2017Feb 5, 2017HTBS

Politically Incorrect

Jan 30, 2017Jan 29, 2017HTBS

Part I: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate

Jan 14, 2017Jan 14, 2017HTBS

Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 1930-2017

Dec 9, 2016Dec 9, 2016HTBS

Bob Dylan: Tideway 61 Revisited

Dec 6, 2016Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Oxford’s Trial By Tideway: The Men’s Race

Oct 3, 2016Oct 3, 2016HTBS

Olympic Oarsman James Crowden Dies

Jul 15, 2016Jul 14, 2016HTBS

The Darling Buds of May

Jun 29, 2016Jul 3, 2016HTBS

Looking Down on Henley Royal Regatta

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016HTBS

The 1956 Winning Letter

Apr 6, 2016Apr 5, 2016HTBS

The 2016 Boat Races on HTBS

Apr 5, 2016Apr 4, 2016HTBS

Compare & Contrast: A Final Look at the 2016 Boat Races

Apr 2, 2016Apr 2, 2016HTBS

The 1970s: The Decade That Style Forgot

Apr 1, 2016Apr 1, 2016HTBS

The BBC’s Boat Race Broadcast: Credit where it’s Due

Mar 30, 2016Mar 30, 2016HTBS

The 1976 Oxford Record Crew

Mar 29, 2016Mar 29, 2016HTBS

My Day at the 2016 Boat Races

Mar 28, 2016Mar 29, 2016HTBS

BBC Trivialised Its Boat Race Coverage

Mar 27, 2016Mar 27, 2016HTBS

Cambridge by a Smile

Mar 26, 2016Mar 26, 2016HTBS

Tideway Week: That Saturday Feeling

Mar 26, 2016Mar 26, 2016HTBS

Very Old Blues: Sixteen Decades of Boat Race Crews

Mar 25, 2016Mar 25, 2016HTBS

Tideway Week: Images from Thursday

Mar 23, 2016Mar 23, 2016HTBS

Countdown to The Boat Races: It’s Tideway Week

Mar 22, 2016Mar 22, 2016HTBS

Breeding Racehorses

Mar 3, 2016Mar 4, 2016HTBS

‘You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat’*: The 2016 Boat Race Weigh-in

Jan 20, 2016Jan 20, 2016HTBS

Rebranding The Boat Race

Dec 15, 2015Dec 14, 2015HTBS

Cox and Box on the Tideway

Dec 12, 2015Dec 12, 2015HTBS

Bluestockings*: The 2016 Women’s Boat Race Trial Eights

Dec 9, 2015Dec 8, 2015HTBS

Yvonne Stuart – By Bossie Phelps Called a Pioneer of Women’s Rowing

Oct 23, 2015Oct 22, 2015HTBS

Boat Race Day 2016: Now We Are Four*

Sep 23, 2015Sep 23, 2015HTBS

On Jock Wise

Aug 13, 2015Aug 12, 2015HTBS

Death on the Water

Aug 11, 2015Aug 12, 2015HTBS

Mutiny on the Cards

Aug 4, 2015Aug 3, 2015HTBS

The Last Post

Aug 2, 2015Aug 1, 2015HTBS

The Art of Rowing

Jul 17, 2015Jul 16, 2015HTBS

A Howell of Praise

Jun 10, 2015Jun 10, 2015HTBS

New Rowing Book: A Yank at Cambridge – B.H. Howell: The Forgotten Champion

May 2, 2015May 4, 2015HTBS

Rowing: Not The Sport Of Kings

Apr 20, 2015Apr 20, 2015HTBS

A Boat Race Miscellany

Apr 17, 2015Apr 20, 2015HTBS

Dark Blue Day Revisited

Apr 14, 2015Apr 14, 2015HTBS

Boat Race Day: Compare and Contrast

Apr 11, 2015Apr 10, 2015HTBS

Tideway Week: Images From Friday

Apr 10, 2015Apr 10, 2015HTBS

Tideway Week: Images from Thursday

Apr 9, 2015Apr 9, 2015HTBS

Tideway Week: Images from Wednesday

Apr 8, 2015Apr 8, 2015HTBS

It’s Tideway Week

Feb 23, 2015Feb 23, 2015HTBS

Dan Topolski, 1945 – 2015

Jan 19, 2015Jan 18, 2015HTBS

Mrs. Broom’s Boys: Photographing History

Jan 5, 2015Jan 4, 2015HTBS

Englishmen Playing Cricket and Rowing in Nazi-Germany

Dec 11, 2014Dec 10, 2014HTBS

Trial By Thames: The 2014 Trial Eights

Dec 8, 2014Dec 7, 2014HTBS

…and here is another silly OUBC video – You Got To Love It!

Nov 14, 2014Nov 14, 2014HTBS

The Boat Race: The Trial Eights

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