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Jun 20, 2025Jun 20, 2025HTBS

From CUWBC To C (Via Q)

May 2, 2025May 18, 2025HTBS

Putney Embankment: From A Shed To A Row – Part I

Aug 9, 2024Aug 10, 2024HTBS

Windsor Boys’ School BC and the Fawley Challenge Cup

Jul 4, 2024Jul 24, 2024HTBS

Henley 2024: Under The Weather 

Dec 6, 2023Dec 6, 2023HTBS

Wyld About Boats

Aug 8, 2023Dec 10, 2024HTBS

Book Review: Gavin Jamieson’s “Water’s Gleaming Gold”

Jul 28, 2023Jul 27, 2023HTBS

Q&A: Gavin Jamieson on his Biography of Jumbo Edwards

Jul 19, 2023Jul 18, 2023HTBS

Henley 2023: Saturday Semis

Feb 23, 2023Feb 25, 2023HTBS

Tickled Pink: A New Rowing History

Jun 27, 2022Jun 26, 2022HTBS

Cameo of the Cam

May 6, 2022Jun 6, 2022HTBS

The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part II: The Salters and the Glory Years

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022HTBS

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

Apr 19, 2022Apr 24, 2022HTBS

John Hawks Clasper, His Father’s Son. Part I: The Professional Oarsman

Apr 6, 2022Apr 5, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part I – Before

Oct 14, 2021Oct 13, 2021HTBS

Aquatic Oddballs in Britain’s Biography

Aug 15, 2021Aug 15, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021: Faterday

May 27, 2021May 28, 2021HTBS

Rowing Around The Bay

Apr 24, 2020Apr 24, 2020HTBS

General Sir George Higginson: An Aquatic Postscript

Oct 6, 2019Oct 6, 2019HTBS

The 2019 Wingfield Sculls: Best Scullers Forever

Jul 7, 2018Jul 7, 2018HTBS

Henley Friday: Temperatures Rise, Records Fall

Mar 15, 2018Mar 14, 2018HTBS

Head-to-Head-to-Head-to-Head

Nov 27, 2017Nov 27, 2017HTBS

Historians, Poets and Painters: All in the same boat?

Jul 7, 2017Jul 6, 2017HTBS

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

Mar 27, 2017Mar 27, 2017HTBS

Rowing Through The Ages

Sep 29, 2016Sep 30, 2016HTBS

Guardsmen In A Row, Part II: The Brigade of Guards Boat Club

Aug 3, 2016Aug 2, 2016HTBS

Borne by Liquid History, Part II

Jul 27, 2016Jul 26, 2016HTBS

What are the Origins of the Modern Sport of Rowing?

Jul 2, 2016Jul 2, 2016HTBS

Henley 2016: That Friday Feeling

Jul 1, 2016Jul 2, 2016HTBS

Thursday: Henley heats up

Mar 5, 2016Mar 5, 2016HTBS

A Reappraisal of the Importance of the River Lea

Jul 3, 2015Jul 5, 2015HTBS

Henley Thursday: Weather Cools Down, Racing Heats Up

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