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May 5, 2022May 5, 2022HTBS

The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part I: Preamble

May 2, 2022May 1, 2022HTBS

Thirty Pieces of Silver (Almost)

Apr 12, 2022Apr 11, 2022HTBS

The Boat Race Day Festival of Rowing and Oxbridge Challenge 2022

Feb 6, 2022Feb 5, 2022HTBS

The Queen’s Head

Oct 2, 2021Oct 1, 2021HTBS

Doggett’s Déjà Vu

Sep 10, 2021Sep 10, 2021HTBS

Doggett’s 2021: History and Pageantry, Rivalry and Fraternity

Aug 26, 2021Aug 26, 2021HTBS

Doggett’s 2021: In the Wake of John Opey

Apr 22, 2021Apr 21, 2021HTBS

A Study in Scarlet

Apr 16, 2021Apr 15, 2021HTBS

Doggett’s 306: Third Time Lucky?

Mar 1, 2021Mar 1, 2021HTBS

The 306th Doggett’s: History on Hold

Feb 26, 2021Feb 25, 2021HTBS

Stuck in the Toffs’ Pigeon Hole

Oct 12, 2020Oct 11, 2020HTBS

The Waterloo Veterans Who Rowed to London

Sep 4, 2020Sep 3, 2020HTBS

Keeping the Fight Within the Crew

Jul 30, 2020Jul 29, 2020HTBS

Hoy! News From Watermen’s Hall

Jul 20, 2020Jul 19, 2020HTBS

Changing with the Times

Jul 13, 2020Jul 13, 2020HTBS

Hibernian Brush Strokes

Jul 10, 2020Jul 9, 2020HTBS

Ladies First

Jun 27, 2020Jun 26, 2020HTBS

Richmond Regatta: A Duck Hunt and a Pig Hunt

May 25, 2020May 24, 2020HTBS

Fixed Seat Reading III: Thames and Tyne Tideways

Aug 23, 2019Aug 22, 2019HTBS

History Meets Eccentricity: The 305th Doggett’s Coat and Badge

Mar 25, 2019Mar 23, 2019HTBS

RRM@21 – 13: When Rodney met Elizabeth…

Feb 16, 2019Feb 15, 2019HTBS

RRM Event: The World’s Oldest Boat Race

Feb 4, 2019Feb 3, 2019HTBS

Liquid History On Tap

Jan 29, 2019Jan 31, 2019HTBS

Going To The Dogs

Sep 13, 2018Sep 13, 2018HTBS

Something in The City

Sep 8, 2018Sep 8, 2018HTBS

Doggett’s 2018: Alfie Fulfils His Promise

Aug 29, 2018Aug 29, 2018HTBS

A Hidden History of The Thames on Show

Aug 28, 2018Aug 27, 2018HTBS

Doggett’s 2018: Better Late Than Never

Jan 10, 2018Jan 10, 2018HTBS

The Biffens of Hammersmith – Builders of Boats Big and Small

Dec 29, 2017Jan 22, 2018HTBS

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

Dec 28, 2017Dec 30, 2017HTBS

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

Dec 7, 2017Dec 7, 2017HTBS

Progress über alles?

Dec 6, 2017Dec 5, 2017HTBS

More Plumbs From The Nickalls Family*

Sep 7, 2017Sep 5, 2017HTBS

Badges of Honour

Jul 7, 2017Jul 6, 2017HTBS

Lightning, Drownings and Leisured Gentlemen: Recreational Rowing in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Jul 6, 2017Jul 5, 2019HTBS

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

Jun 2, 2017Jun 2, 2017HTBS

This is a Thames Wherry

May 27, 2017May 27, 2017HTBS

Wherries and Ferries Against the Tide

Sep 17, 2016Sep 17, 2016HTBS

(Legislative) Bodies Between Their Knees*: The 2016 Parliamentary Boat Race

Sep 4, 2016Sep 3, 2016HTBS

Fun For All: The Great River Race

Jul 27, 2016Jul 26, 2016HTBS

What are the Origins of the Modern Sport of Rowing?

Jul 25, 2016Jul 25, 2016HTBS

Doggett’s 2016, Part II: How the Coat was Won (and Lost)

Jul 22, 2016Jul 22, 2016HTBS

Doggett’s 2016, Part I: Ben joins the Band of Brothers

Jul 21, 2016Jul 20, 2016HTBS

The Jolly Young Waterman

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