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Tag: William O’Chee

Dec 4, 2025Dec 8, 2025HTBS

William O’Chee to Write Offical History of OUBC

Jul 6, 2025Jul 5, 2025HTBS

HRR Semi-Finals – Champions Chase Their Crowns

Jul 4, 2025Jul 3, 2025HTBS

Picture This: Henley Thursday 2025

Jul 3, 2025Jul 3, 2025HTBS

No Favourite in Everyone’s Favourite Race

Jun 30, 2025Jul 1, 2025HTBS

The HRR Draw – Pomp and Circumstance in Henley-on-Thames

Jun 30, 2025Jun 30, 2025HTBS

How to Spend it at Henley Royal Regatta

Jun 28, 2025Jun 27, 2025HTBS

HWR 2025: A Celebration Of Women’s Rowing, Part I

Jun 6, 2025Jun 5, 2025HTBS

“What do I really want to celebrate? What do I really want to tell you about what I love?”

Apr 28, 2025May 2, 2025HTBS

How To Save The Boat Race From The Lawyers

Feb 18, 2025Feb 17, 2025HTBS

Rowers, Spies, and Traitors

Feb 11, 2025Feb 10, 2025HTBS

Henley Royal Regatta: Open To Suggestions

Jan 6, 2025Jan 5, 2025HTBS

Tom Weil Goes to the Cricket

Jan 1, 2025Jan 5, 2025HTBS

HTBS in 2024

Dec 10, 2024Dec 9, 2024HTBS

An Oxford Blue? How about an Oxford Yellow?

Nov 10, 2024Nov 10, 2024HTBS

Remembrance Sunday – The Oarsman’s Ode

Oct 16, 2024Oct 15, 2024HTBS

Sandy Irvine: Climbing The Third Pole

Jun 9, 2024Jun 9, 2024HTBS

From Oxford to Everest – Part II

Jun 8, 2024Oct 15, 2024HTBS

From Oxford to Everest – Part I

May 13, 2024May 12, 2024HTBS

Edris Marks: One of the Founders of Australian Women’s Rowing

Mar 23, 2024Mar 24, 2024HTBS

Oars with a Catch

Mar 5, 2024Mar 5, 2024HTBS

Winston Churchill and his Family Rowing History

Jan 24, 2024Jan 23, 2024HTBS

Rowing Has Found A New Siren

Jan 1, 2024Jan 3, 2024HTBS

HTBS in 2023

Dec 29, 2023Dec 28, 2023HTBS

Rowing Books, 2023

Oct 2, 2023Oct 11, 2023HTBS

“The Greatest Rowing Stories Ever Told” Is Out Today

Sep 13, 2023Sep 12, 2023HTBS

Return to Syon

Jul 26, 2023Jul 25, 2023HTBS

Henley 2023: The Final Finals

Jul 11, 2023Jul 11, 2023HTBS

Thames RC Celebrates a Golden Anniversary

Jul 6, 2023Jul 7, 2023HTBS

Henley – The Ineffable Spirit of Racing

Jun 28, 2023Jun 27, 2023HTBS

Henley – The Agony And The Ecstasy Is About To Begin

Jun 27, 2023Jun 26, 2023HTBS

Henley Women’s Regatta – And Saving Rowing For Women

Jun 14, 2023Jun 14, 2023HTBS

The Henley Butterfly

Mar 2, 2023Jun 2, 2023HTBS

The Greatest Rowing Stories

Feb 7, 2023Feb 6, 2023HTBS

The World’s Unknown Rowing Paradise

Jan 1, 2023Dec 31, 2023HTBS

The 2022 HTBS Numbers

Oct 20, 2022Oct 20, 2022HTBS

Two Presidents: Betty And Monkey

Jul 29, 2022Jul 29, 2022HTBS

Stanley Muttlebury’s Florentine Excursion?

Jul 27, 2022Jul 27, 2022HTBS

How the Waterloo Dispatch was Rowed to England

Mar 31, 2022Mar 31, 2022HTBS

HTBS Interview with Oxford’s Annie Anezakis

Mar 19, 2022Mar 19, 2022HTBS

Oxford Women and Lightweights get Pre-Race Bounty

Mar 17, 2022Mar 16, 2022HTBS

2022 Australian Rowing Championships Will Move

Mar 6, 2022Mar 6, 2022HTBS

Brisbane’s Rowing Community Makes a Comeback

Feb 28, 2022Feb 28, 2022HTBS

The Flooding Continues in Eastern Australia

Feb 27, 2022Mar 6, 2022HTBS

Brisbane’s Rowing Clubs Stricken by Floods

Jan 1, 2022Jan 16, 2022HTBS

New Year’s Letter

Dec 23, 2021Dec 22, 2021HTBS

Elephantastic: The HTBS Christmas Caption Competition Winners

Nov 18, 2021Nov 17, 2021HTBS

Another Boatload of Mos

May 11, 2021May 10, 2021HTBS

Oxbridge Lightweights to Resume their Rivalry

Apr 25, 2021Apr 24, 2021HTBS

ANZAC Day: They Rowed to Glory

Apr 13, 2021Apr 13, 2021HTBS

RIP Louis Petrin

Mar 13, 2021Mar 16, 2021HTBS

The Crew That Makes The Boat Sing

Mar 10, 2021Mar 9, 2021HTBS

Aquatic Treasures Of The British Museum

Feb 5, 2021Feb 4, 2021HTBS

Harriman and Acheson: Fighting the Crimson and the Reds

Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021HTBS

The College Oarsmen who Helped Save the Sterling

Jan 21, 2021Jan 20, 2021HTBS

There’ll Always be a Henley

Oct 13, 2020Oct 12, 2020HTBS

The New CUBC:  ‘The Best of the Old, with the Promise of the New’

Oct 12, 2020Oct 11, 2020HTBS

The Waterloo Veterans Who Rowed to London

Aug 5, 2020Aug 5, 2020HTBS

William O’Chee: When your Finest Possession is Memory

May 22, 2020May 21, 2020HTBS

Interview with Dan Lyons on being a World Champion and Building Champion Teams

May 10, 2020May 9, 2020HTBS

Cambridge University Rowers Find Unity Amidst Isolation

May 1, 2020Jul 5, 2020HTBS

An Exclusive Interview with Vicky Thornley

Apr 3, 2020Apr 2, 2020HTBS

May Time I

Mar 24, 2020Mar 23, 2020HTBS

Oxford has the Lightweight Blues

Mar 21, 2020Mar 21, 2020HTBS

HTBS Eight

Mar 4, 2020Mar 4, 2020HTBS

WW1 Fighter Pilot, Colonial Administrator, Knight – and Rower!

Jan 5, 2020Jan 5, 2020HTBS

Letter from a Fire-Stricken Nation

Dec 22, 2019Dec 21, 2019HTBS

Oxford Lightweights Prove Brains are Better than Brawn

Aug 3, 2019Aug 2, 2019HTBS

HRR2019 Revisited

Jul 24, 2019Jul 24, 2019HTBS

Images of Henley 2019: Semi Saturday

Jul 19, 2019Jul 19, 2019HTBS

Beyond the Stewards’ Enclosure: Part II – The Picnic

Jul 18, 2019Jul 19, 2019HTBS

Beyond the Stewards’ Enclosure: Part I – The Start

Jul 16, 2019Jul 16, 2019HTBS

Hooray Henley

May 29, 2019May 28, 2019HTBS

Guinea Pigs on an Ergometer

Apr 8, 2019Apr 8, 2019HTBS

When Oarsmen were Gunmen

Mar 27, 2019Mar 25, 2019HTBS

A Boat Race Light in Style but Heavy on Class

Mar 26, 2019Mar 26, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: Not Wimping Out – The HTBS 10th Anniversary Lunch

Mar 12, 2019Mar 11, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: For HTBS Types… and Maybe Some Others

Jan 7, 2019Jan 6, 2019HTBS

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

Nov 9, 2018Nov 8, 2018HTBS

From Golden Days to Flanders Fields: Remembering Fallen Oarsmen on the Centenary of the Armistice

May 30, 2018May 29, 2018HTBS

Comic Cuts: A Few Hints on the Subject of Oarsmanship

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