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Merry Rowing Christmas in 1939
The front of the 1939 Thames Rowing Club’s Christmas card. Göran R Buckhorn writes: When I arrived home after having celebrated Christmas in Maine, there was a Christmas card waiting for me in the...
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015
The HTBS Team wishes you all a ~ Happy New Year ~ See you in 2015! Tagged: Happy New Year
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Christopher Davidge – The Man who Stopped Thatcher’s Boycott Plans
Christopher Davidge. Photo: British Rowing. As HTBS reported on 27 December 2014, Christopher Davidge passed away on 22 December, 85 years old. Yesterday, Mike Rowbottom, well-known rowing writer,...
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Working the Loom of the Sea
I row clear Ulysses so as not to interupt his quest, the voyage dangerous when left unfinished, the voyage fraut with what ifs, unfinished, while the destination is kept waiting. I sleep in the wake...
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Englishmen Playing Cricket and Rowing in Nazi-Germany
The Gentlemen of Worcestershire. © Dan Waddell. Göran R Buckhorn writes: Now and then, in between all books on rowing, I try to read a book that has nothing to do with our beloved sport. I sometimes...
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Where Boats Grow On Trees
Tim Koch at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, the place where legendary boatbuilder and coach, George Pocock (1891-1976) found the best red cedar trees to make his famous racing shells. Tim Koch writes...
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The Irish Rowing Archive
Some of the ephemera in the Irish Rowing Archive. Greg Denieffe writes: In 2013, my daughter Laura needed a transition-year project for school. As a rower herself, she readily agreed to my suggestion...
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Cartoon Characters
Until the early 1980s, Sundays in Britain were always in black and white. Tim Koch writes: My first exposure to the art of caricature came when, as a teenager in the early 1970s, I read my father’s...
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Mrs. Broom’s Boys: Photographing History
Christina Broom, then aged 76, with the 1938 Oxford crew. Tim Koch writes: Anyone interested in the history of the Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race will be familiar with the work of Christina Broom, a.k.a....
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Rowing Chat with Peter Mallory
A new year mean a new round of interesting Rowing Chats from Rowperfect UK. First out on Wednesday, 28 January, between U.K. time (GMT) 7 and 8 p.m. (19:00 – 20:00), is famed rowing author Peter...
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Some Firsts That Weren’t – The Beginning of U.S. Collegiate Lightweight Rowing
Thomas E Weil writes: To pull off the first of anything can be a challenge, and rowing is no exception. Not infrequently, initial attempts are frustrated for some reason, leaving the ultimate...
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Win or Lose – and Our Saviour
Göran R Buckhorn writes: I have many favorites among Steve Fairbairn’s sayings – the ones that his friend Freddy Brittain selected in the pamphlet Slowly Forward (1929) – but if I can only choose one,...
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The Last Giant
A poster of 1940 intended to signal a more resolute war effort following Churchill becoming Prime Minister. The poster also redressed the divisive effect of earlier British propaganda, calling for a...
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A Poignant Piece of Rowing History: Jewish Rowing Clubs in Nazi-Germany
27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom. It is a national commemoration day dedicated to remembering those who suffered under the Nazis in The Holocaust and also the subsequent...
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Who Was The Man At The Bow?
The bow of the boat that carried Churchill’s remains down the Thames, the MV Havengore, on a happier occasion, the Thames Pageant to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. The men in the red livery...
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Remembering Ewart Horsfall
The 1912 Olympic champions in the eights. Left to right: Ewart Horsfall, Edgar Burgess, Angus Gillan, Alister Kirby, Stanley Garton, Leslie Wormald, Philip Fleming and Sidney ‘Cygnet’ Swann. Sitting...
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To Have or Have Less
At berths, one next the other, sat a yacht and a shell, a blazer-clad captain and a rower stripped to the waist, a have and one who had less, a division of the spoils of the material world. And yet I...
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Forever After – Rowing Movie or Football Movie?
Forever After (1926). Photo: silenthollywood.com Greg Denieffe writes: From time to time, HTBS has referred readers to the definite lists of rowing movies AKA The Rabbit’s Guide to Rowing Films and...
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Nominations for the 2015 Thomas Keller Medal
Thomi Keller in 1965. Photo: Wikipedia. In a press release, the World Rowing Federation, FISA, writes on its website that the organisation has opened the nomination process for the 2015 Thomas Keller...
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