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Mar 2, 2023Mar 4, 2023HTBS

The Greatest Rowing Stories

Feb 7, 2023Feb 6, 2023HTBS

The World’s Unknown Rowing Paradise

Jan 1, 2023Jan 1, 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

May 3, 2018May 2, 2018HTBS

ANZAC Day in Brisbane

Apr 25, 2018Apr 24, 2018HTBS

Anzac Day 2018: Remembering the Diggers*.

Apr 13, 2018Apr 12, 2018HTBS

Para Power at the Commonwealth Games

Jan 26, 2018Jan 26, 2018HTBS

Rowing’s Continuation and Resilience in Wartime Oxford

Nov 27, 2017Nov 27, 2017HTBS

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

Oct 25, 2017Oct 25, 2017HTBS

Rowing Trophy Makes A Homecoming After 140 Years

William O'Chee
Oct 18, 2017Oct 17, 2017HTBS

Welcome to HTBS, William!

Oct 5, 2017Oct 5, 2017HTBS

Where the Mighty Rivers (Sometimes) Flow

Sep 18, 2017Sep 19, 2017HTBS

Up Suzhou Creek – A Brief History of The Shanghai Rowing Club – I

Aug 29, 2017Aug 27, 2017HTBS

Singapore or Shanghai?

Aug 9, 2017Aug 8, 2017HTBS

A Snapshot of Rowing in the 1890s

Aug 2, 2017Aug 2, 2017HTBS

Some Images of Eton in Words and Pictures

Jul 7, 2017Jul 6, 2017HTBS

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

Mar 22, 2017Mar 22, 2017HTBS

Fragments of the True Oar

Mar 12, 2017Mar 11, 2017HTBS

HTBS Turns 8 – Good Grief!

Mar 2, 2017Mar 2, 2017HTBS

Childe of Hale

Feb 1, 2017Feb 1, 2017HTBS

Part III: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate

Jan 31, 2017Feb 1, 2017HTBS

Part II: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate

Jan 30, 2017Jan 29, 2017HTBS

Part I: The Extraordinary Mr Woodgate

Aug 19, 2016Aug 19, 2016HTBS

Douglas ‘Ducker’ McLean

Aug 2, 2016Aug 2, 2016HTBS

Borne by Liquid History, Part I

Jul 27, 2016Jul 26, 2016HTBS

What are the Origins of the Modern Sport of Rowing?

May 30, 2015May 30, 2015HTBS

200 Years of Oxford Racing

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