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The Butterfly Effect
The Boys in the Boat was published in the summer of 2013. The picture shows the U.S. edition with the American subtitle. 6 March 2024By Peter Mallory A few days ago, I had a long talk with Tom Daley,...
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Doing Time
Photo: David Holt/Wikipedia 7 March 2024 By Philip Kuepper And here I thought the Britishmight find it amusing.I grew bored in London.(Please, don’t tell Dr. Johnson.)And to mix things up, a little,I...
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IWD 2024: Rowing’s Female Pioneers, Past and Present
Graphic: World Rowing 8 March 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch marks International Women’s Day with an eclectic mix of images of women rowing.Today, 8 March, marks International Women’s Day – a global day of...
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Rowing the River’s Mind
10 March 2024 By Philip Kuepper I have worked my way backthrough fifty-three years,to 1971 Boston, and the Charles,where I sat on the Embankmentand watched rowersmaneuver their boatsin a current with...
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A Tale of Two Blades
Christopher Davidge and Tony Leadley – two of the most successful GB oarsmen of the post-War years. 11 March 2024By Robert Treharne Jones As the Leander archivist I regularly field questions about our...
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The HTBS Quindecennial
The story of the HTBS logo is here. 12 March 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch sends birthday greetings to the now adolescent Hear The Boat Sing. Today, 12 March 2024, is the fifteenth anniversary of the first...
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10 March: International Oarswomen’s Day
Two Leander supporters prepare to cheer on the women in cerise as they race over the Thames Championship Course. 13 March 2024By Tim Koch On Sunday 10 March, one day after International Women’s Day,...
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Turning The Tide – Episode 1
14 March 2024The preamble to this Boat Race Company/Row360 series on the run-up to the 2024 Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race says: In the wake of a whitewash defeat in 2023, Oxford are determined to...
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A Lived Experience of Boats Not Bars
Imogen Walsh, Prisons Manager at the charity, Fulham Reach Boat Club (FRBC), pictured coxing ex-offenders as part of FRBC’s “Boats Not Bars” programme. 15 March 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch on an...
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The 2024 Boat Race Crew Announcement: Two Icons Meet
The men’s and women’s crews of Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Clubs were officially announced in the shopping and leisure complex that is the former Battersea Power Station on 13 March, 17 days...
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The Consummation
17 March 2024 By Philip Kuepper Rowers shrug their musclesagainst the tide.They are bodies of raw effort,their arms hewn limbs of oak,and their legs.They are making love with the river.It is their...
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Return to Shanghai
The poster for the 2023 Shanghai Head of the River Regatta. A translated press release says: “The slogan of the regatta is ‘Pull together, Forge ahead’, as it invites rowers from all over the world to...
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The Titan Who Ran Rings Round Olympia
William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, KG, GCVO, DL (30 October 1855 – 9 January 1945), pictured in 1922 wearing Leander tie and OUBC blazer and boater. 19 March 2024By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd on...
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An Evening with Lord Desborough at Hatchards
Hatchards is the oldest bookshop in the UK, founded on Piccadilly in 1779 by John Hatchard. 20 March 2024If Chris Dodd’s review from yesterday of Sandy Nairne and Peter Williams’s biography Titan of...
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Turning The Tide: Episode 2 –“There’s always something”
Had Row360 magazine’s Benedict Tufnell and Tom Ransley been making documentaries on the Boat Race in 1950 and not in 2024, this is how they may have looked. 22 March 2024 Turning The Tide is a new...
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Oars with a Catch
23 March 2024 By William O’Chee It is almost time for the Boat Race, and that means online marketplaces are witnessing a new influx of fake Oxford rowing memorabilia. We have reported on this in the...
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The Race
24 March 2024 By Philip Kuepper The raceis treacherouswhere connecttwo bodies of water;captains cautioussteering their craftsthrough what is capableof becoming rapidsrushing, simultaneously, in...
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Turning The Tide: Episode 3 –“The Kettle Boils Over”
The 1938 Oxford Crew investigate a cinema newsreel movie camera at the Ranelagh Club. 24 March 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch is not in camera. Turning The Tide is the YouTube series that aims to tell the...
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The Schools’ Head: A Lesson In Rowing
Going afloat from the hard outside Emmanuel School BC, Barnes Bridge Ladies RC and Cygnet RC for the start of the 2024 Schools’ Head held on 20 March. 25 March 2024By Tim KochTim Koch is on Barnes...
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Building a Winning Blue Boat in 1907
26 March 2024By Ralf-Peter Stumme & Göran R BuckhornThe Boat Races between the Oxford and Cambridge men and women will soon be upon us.A few days ago, Ralf-Peter Stumme sent HTBS an article with a...
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