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House of Rowing
Underwood on his WaterRower. Louis Petrin writes from Down Under: Australia has a new leader of Parliament House, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Up until now, 25% of...
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A Journey to the Past at the 2015 Lea RC September Regatta
Lea Rowing Club, a recent picture taken from High Bridge. Clive Radley, author of The Radleys of the Lea, was visiting Lea RC’s September Regatta. He writes: Lea RC – picture taken from High Bridge...
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51st HOCR
During the past weekend, the 51st Head of the Charles Regatta was held in Boston. The HOCR website offers a lot of interesting news article for the 2015 Regatta, take a look here. You will find the...
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Please, write more Ms. Macur!
Göran R Buckhorn writes: Yesterday, Monday 19 October, rowing historian Bill Lanouette sent me an enthusiastic e-mail saying that he just read an article about rowing in The New York Times. Now that...
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Bemax – For All Rowing Men?
An advertisement for Bemax cereal in a 1951 edition of Rowing magazine. Tim Koch writes: Following my post on rowing images used in advertising, ‘Mad Men and Oarsmen’, Robin Privett asked via the...
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A Day in the Park
Art is Art wrench (2009) is 8 feet (2.4 metres). Now and then, HTBS posts so-called non-rowing related articles on its website. Here is one of those articles. Last Saturday, HTBS editor Göran R...
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Boat Race Day 2016: Now We Are Four*
A view of the 1901 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race by Punch magazine’s ‘anticipatory artist’. Boat Race Day 2016 should be at least as busy with four races going off in the space of an hour. Tim Koch...
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A Hidden Treasure at the ICRC
Göran R Buckhorn writes: There are two famous institutions in the village of Mystic in Connecticut, Mystic Seaport – The Museum of America and the Sea, and The Mystic Aquarium. In the shadow of these...
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2015 HOSR – Results
This past weekend was the 45th annual Head of the Schuylkill Regatta (HOSR) in Philadelphia. The organisers expected approximately 7,000 athletes to compete (there were 6,600 in 2014), from high...
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The Rower’s Palette
A tiara of women stood on the bridge that curved like a crescent over the river watching the rowers effort forward their sculls on the sapphire colored river; a tiara of women, sari-robed, in orange,...
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BBC Documentary on Harry Clasper
Chris Dodd reports that on Monday, 26 October, a Harry Clasper documentary was shown on BBC1 Inside Out (NE and Cumbria region). The documentary is based largely on the play Hadaway Harry and Dodd’s...
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Still Rocking the Boat
GB Women’s crew c. 1930s. The River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames reports: ‘Rocking the Boat: Women in Rowing’ is the title of this year’s Rowing History Forum at the River & Rowing...
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61st Fuller’s Head of the River Fours
In a press release, Press Officer Daniel Spring, known in the rowing world as ‘fatsculler’, writes about the 2015 Fuller’s Head of the River Fours: On Saturday, 7 November, starting at 12:45 p.m., the...
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Giving Berth: A Review of “Unto the Tideway Born”
The latest book from rowing journalist, author and historian Chris Dodd. Tim Koch writes: It is famously and frequently said that the River Thames is ‘Liquid History’. If this is so, then in his latest...
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Etona Non Immemor*
Tim Koch writes: Today, Sunday, 8 November 2015 is Remembrance Sunday in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. It is a day ‘to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and...
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The 2015 Silver Skiff Regatta
The 2015 Silver Skiff winner Valent Sinkovic (on the right) and his second-placed brother, Martin, of Coatia. The 2015 Silver Skiff Regatta was held during the past weekend in Turin, Italy. This year’s...
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2015 Fuller’s Head of the River Fours – Results
Last Saturday, 7 November, the 61st Fuller’s Head of the River Fours took place on the 4 ¼ mile Championship course from Mortlake to Putney on the River Thames in London. More than 1,600 athletes in...
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Ernest and the Importance of Remembrance
Centenary Irish Poppy pin to honour and commemorate the memory of the Irish men and women from across the Island of Ireland who gave their lives in service in the Great War. Greg Denieffe writes:...
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Most Conspicuous Bravery
Boys of Eton’s Officer Training Corps at drill, 1915. Yesterday, 11 November, was Armistice Day, which is commemorated every year to mark the cessation of hostilities between Germany and the World War...
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