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Tag: Women’s Boat Race

Feb 16, 2021Jun 9, 2021HTBS

The Curious Case of Doctor Dillon

Dec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020HTBS

Ouse-ing with Talent: The 2021 Boat Race Trials

Dec 26, 2020Dec 24, 2020HTBS

No Humbug: The Spirit of The Boat Race Yet to Come

Dec 21, 2020Dec 20, 2020HTBS

The First Oxbridge Women’s Boat Race: Emulating the Pale (and Dark) Blue Lords of Creation

Nov 27, 2020Nov 26, 2020HTBS

The 2021 Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race: E to L

Sep 2, 2020Sep 1, 2020HTBS

David Mercer: The Perfect Gentleman

May 19, 2020May 18, 2020HTBS

#lastnormalphoto

May 10, 2020May 9, 2020HTBS

Cambridge University Rowers Find Unity Amidst Isolation

Mar 29, 2020Mar 29, 2020HTBS

The Day That Never Was

Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020HTBS

UK Rowing Stops

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

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019HTBS

Picture Post: More From The HTBS Photo Archive

May 4, 2019May 4, 2019HTBS

Mind Games: Homer Or Annie?

Apr 16, 2019Apr 16, 2019HTBS

1968: Facetious Facts on The Boat Race

Apr 9, 2019Apr 9, 2019HTBS

Boat Race Day 2019: Who said what and plus ça change

Apr 7, 2019Apr 6, 2019HTBS

Oxford – not the best crew in Oxford (to be fair, Cambridge wouldn’t be either)

Mar 17, 2019Mar 16, 2019HTBS

Weighing Up The Blues

Mar 13, 2019Mar 10, 2019HTBS

HTBS@10: A Decade of Decisive Moments

Dec 10, 2018Dec 11, 2018HTBS

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

Mar 24, 2018Mar 27, 2018HTBS

Today Is Boat Race Day: Let Battle Commence

Mar 22, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Facing the Dark Blue Music

Mar 22, 2018Mar 21, 2018HTBS

Tideway Week Wednesday: Keeping Tabs on Cambridge

Mar 19, 2018Mar 18, 2018HTBS

The Boat Race and Tideway Week: Eat, Sleep, Row

Mar 7, 2018Mar 7, 2018HTBS

Black and Blue: Molesey v OUWBC

Mar 5, 2018Mar 22, 2018HTBS

Boat Race Quiz: Blue Teasers

Sep 30, 2017Oct 1, 2017HTBS

Competitive Women’s Rowing in Britain since 1945: The Shadow of the 19th Century

Jul 13, 2017Jul 11, 2017HTBS

New Club Presidents for the 2018 Boat Races

Apr 10, 2017Apr 9, 2017HTBS

The Boat Races Revisited

Apr 3, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Battles of Blues from the Couch

Apr 2, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Observing Oxford, Contemplating Cambridge: Viewing the Boat Race

Apr 1, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Blue Moods

Apr 1, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Tomorrow’s Oxford–Cambridge Boat Races: The Results?

Mar 28, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

The Oxford–Cambridge Boat Races: The Countdown Has Begun

Mar 25, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Three Questions to Cambridge’s Myriam Goudet

Mar 16, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Weigh Enough*?

Feb 23, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

The 2017 Boat Race* Fixtures: The Story So Far

Feb 6, 2017Feb 5, 2017HTBS

Politically Incorrect

Jan 9, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Tabs On Trial: Girl Power

Dec 7, 2016Apr 5, 2017HTBS

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

Apr 6, 2016Apr 5, 2016HTBS

The 2016 Boat Races on HTBS

Apr 5, 2016Apr 4, 2016HTBS

Compare & Contrast: A Final Look at the 2016 Boat Races

Apr 4, 2016Apr 3, 2016HTBS

As Ye Row, So Shall Ye Reap: The Biblical Boat Race

Apr 3, 2016Apr 3, 2016HTBS

The Women’s Boat Race: The Calm Before The Storm

Mar 31, 2016Mar 31, 2016HTBS

‘The Boat Race is a little bit my own Olympic Games’

Mar 28, 2016Mar 29, 2016HTBS

BBC Trivialised Its Boat Race Coverage

Mar 28, 2016Mar 27, 2016HTBS

Having a Swell Time

Mar 26, 2016Mar 26, 2016HTBS

Tideway Week: That Saturday Feeling

Mar 23, 2016Mar 23, 2016HTBS

Countdown to The Boat Races: It’s Tideway Week

Mar 3, 2016Mar 4, 2016HTBS

‘You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat’*: The 2016 Boat Race Weigh-in

Jan 20, 2016Jan 20, 2016HTBS

Rebranding The Boat Race

Apr 20, 2015Apr 20, 2015HTBS

A Boat Race Miscellany

Apr 17, 2015Apr 20, 2015HTBS

Dark Blue Day Revisited

Apr 14, 2015Apr 14, 2015HTBS

Boat Race Day: Compare and Contrast

Apr 11, 2015Apr 10, 2015HTBS

Tideway Week: Images From Friday

Apr 10, 2015Apr 10, 2015HTBS

Tideway Week: Images from Thursday

Apr 9, 2015Apr 9, 2015HTBS

Tideway Week: Images from Wednesday

Nov 14, 2014Nov 14, 2014HTBS

The Boat Race: The Trial Eights

Oct 25, 2014Oct 25, 2014HTBS

Oxford v Cambridge On The Tideway: Now We Are Four

Oct 10, 2014Oct 10, 2014HTBS

Our Relationship with the Boat Race

Apr 1, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Putting It On The Tab: Credit To Oxford Women

Mar 13, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

No light Blues – the Boat Race Crews weigh-in

Feb 19, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Silver Trophies from 1866 to 2014

Feb 18, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

The Glittering Prize

Feb 17, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

A Trophy Worthy of the Chase

Dec 20, 2013Apr 26, 2014HTBS

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

Nov 4, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The Challenges

Mar 27, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The ‘Other Boat Races’

Nov 26, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The 2012 Trial Eights

Aug 25, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Women’s Boat Clubs Appoint New Chief Coaches

Feb 8, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Martin Gough: Women’s Boat Race: Worth The Wait

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