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Tag: Trial Eights

Dec 23, 2025Dec 22, 2025HTBS

Countdown To The 2026 Boat Race: Oxford Trial Eights

Dec 22, 2025Dec 21, 2025HTBS

Countdown To The 2026 Boat Race: Cambridge Trial Eights

Dec 14, 2024Dec 13, 2024HTBS

Students Tested

Aug 16, 2024Aug 15, 2024HTBS

Win, Lose And Draw: The Coxing Career of GL Davis

Dec 23, 2023Dec 23, 2023HTBS

Oxford Men’s Trial Eights: Noise Goes Up To 11 And Fights Off A Panic Attack 

Dec 22, 2023Dec 21, 2023HTBS

Cambridge Women’s Trail Eights: The Lion Queens

Mar 18, 2023Mar 17, 2023HTBS

Post Modern

Mar 14, 2023Mar 16, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part II, 1902-03

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

Feb 18, 2022Feb 18, 2022HTBS

William Grenfell’s ‘Rowing at Oxford’

Jan 20, 2022Jan 19, 2022HTBS

Winning in Style: The Oxford 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

Feb 8, 2021Feb 7, 2021HTBS

Donald Gollan: The Nearly Man

Jan 13, 2021Jan 12, 2021HTBS

Oxonian Rhapsody: Magnifico-o-o-o-o

Jan 1, 2021Dec 31, 2020HTBS

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

Dec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020HTBS

Ouse-ing with Talent: The 2021 Boat Race Trials

Oct 26, 2020Oct 25, 2020HTBS

NF20

Aug 3, 2020Aug 5, 2020HTBS

Göran Buckhorn: Rudie’s Medals and Plaques

Jan 29, 2020Jan 28, 2020HTBS

Boat Race 2020: News of the Blues

Dec 22, 2019Dec 21, 2019HTBS

Oxford Lightweights Prove Brains are Better than Brawn

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 13, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Expecto Remo

Dec 12, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part IV – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Dec 12, 2018Dec 11, 2018HTBS

Tabs On Trial

Dec 10, 2018Dec 11, 2018HTBS

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

Dec 9, 2017Dec 8, 2017HTBS

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

Dec 8, 2017Dec 8, 2017HTBS

Cambridge Trial Eights

Dec 5, 2017Dec 4, 2017HTBS

Boat Races Trial Eights – Cambridge

Apr 25, 2017Apr 24, 2017HTBS

The Fallen Are Not Forgotten

Jan 30, 2017Jan 29, 2017HTBS

Part I: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate

Jan 10, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Tabs On Trial: Mano A Mano*

Jan 9, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Tabs On Trial: Girl Power

Dec 7, 2016Apr 5, 2017HTBS

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

Dec 6, 2016Apr 5, 2017HTBS

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

Apr 6, 2016Apr 5, 2016HTBS

The 2016 Boat Races on HTBS

Mar 23, 2016Mar 23, 2016HTBS

Countdown to The Boat Races: It’s Tideway Week

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

Apr 8, 2015Apr 8, 2015HTBS

It’s Tideway Week

Dec 11, 2014Dec 10, 2014HTBS

Trial By Thames: The 2014 Trial Eights

Nov 14, 2014Nov 14, 2014HTBS

The Boat Race: The Trial Eights

Mar 4, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

The 1933 Cambridge Trial Eights Heat

Jan 21, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Giving It Some Welly*: The 2014 Oxford Trial Eights



Dec 20, 2013Apr 26, 2014HTBS

The 2013 Oxford – Cambridge Women’s Trial Eights: Races To The Finish

Dec 19, 2013Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Four Eights Are Sixteen: The December Boat Race Trials 2013

Dec 19, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

‘Easy’ beats ‘Quick’ with 0.6 sec.!

Dec 17, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

‘Tonic’ Ahead of ‘Gin’

Dec 14, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The 2012 Pre Christmas Trial VIIIs

Dec 13, 2012Dec 13, 2012Ellen

While We Wait for the Trial Eights…

Nov 26, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The 2012 Trial Eights

Nov 23, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Cambridge Trial Eights 1896: Comparing Jackets and Socks

Dec 16, 2011Apr 23, 2014Ellen

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