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Founding Mothers
Members of Denmark’s Hellerup Dameroklub pictured at their oars in the 1920s. Picture: arkivdk 8 March 2019 By Tim Koch On International Women’s Day, Tim Koch makes his yearly gesture to half of the...
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Bond is Back
Never Say Never Again 9 March 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn On Wednesday, Rowing New Zealand announced that Hamish Bond – two-time Olympic gold medallist in the men’s pairs and seven-time world champion in...
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Rhythmic River
10 March 2019 By Philip Kuepper The barge of black, oily coal glistened in the near noon light, as it budged slowly south down the Mississippi past down in an unbroken stream of motion, the only sound...
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RRM@21 – 9: Sugar and Spice
11 March 2019 By Chris Dodd Rumour has it that the boat that carried Britain’s coxless four to Olympic victory at Sydney 2000 was never washed after its run down Penrith Lake, nor were the hands...
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HTBS@10: For HTBS Types… and Maybe Some Others
“The Return from Henley” by James Tissot was the first image posted on HTBS on 12 March 2009. 12 March 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn reflects on 10 years in cyberspace. What...
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HTBS@10: A Decade of Decisive Moments
‘Two Gentlemen’, Henley, 2016. 13 March 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch picks out those of his photos that he Leica the most. Henri Cartier-Bresson, the photographer whose candid and spontaneous pictures...
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Bumper to Bumper
High-class graffito at Brasenose College, Oxford. Only rowing successes are allowed to mark the old and hallowed walls. Picture: shoffmire.blogspot.com 14 March 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch collects...
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RRM@21 – 10: Singular Boats
Volke Nolte’s sliding rigger. Photo: Tim Koch. 15 March 2019 By Chris Dodd The boat collection at the River & Rowing Museum in Henley includes one-man vessels with experimental features. Museum...
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A History of Women’s Rowing in the 1930s’ Italy
Women rowing on the river Arno in front of Ponte Vecchio, Florence, in the summer of 1933. This article was published in “Il Canottaggio” magazine. 16 March 2019 On 14 March, Marco Giani published an...
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Weighing Up The Blues
The trophy for the men’s race currently records the winners of the previous 164 races. In the background is some of the Oxford Crew that hope to be the 165th name added following the race on 7 April...
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RRM@21 – 11: The Takeaway Trireme
Article writer Dodd trying out RRM’s Trireme. Photo: Tim Koch. 18 March 2019 By Chris Dodd As it reaches maturity the River & Rowing Museum has accumulated thousands of objects and a cavernous...
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A Civil War Race in South Carolina
19 March 2019 By Thomas E. Weil Thomas E. Weil reads an old letter. For most of us, most of the time, writing about rowing history involves finding needed nuggets in rowing history books, almanacs or...
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1829: A Letter Means So Much
“The Oxford & Cambridge Rowing Match at Henley on Thames” by landscape painter William Havell. The painting is from the Thomas E. Weil Collection, River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames. 20...
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A Time Capsule Opened
A leather bound photograph album dating from 1912 bearing the coat and arms of the Berlin Students’ Rowing Club. The crest shows the club’s colours in the upper left section, a boat in the lower left...
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RRM@21 – 12: It’s all about Steve
Edington Charitable Trust commissioned Justin Mortimer to paint Steve Redgrave. Photo: Catherine Shakespeare Lane. 22 March 2019 By Chris Dodd Twenty-one years ago, Redgrave was the name of the...
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I Have Heard The Boat Sing
23 March 2019 By Larry Fogelberg I‘ve heard the boat sing on many a stretch. If it wasn‘t on key, that wasn‘t its fault. But often it was, and the boat really sang, In perfect harmony, us all right on...
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A History of Women’s Rowing in Fascist 1930s’ Italy – Part II
A male view of women’s rowing as a flirtatious occasion can be seen in the original caption, which says: MAN: ‘Which sport do you like the most?’ WOMAN: ‘This one … rowing!’ Source: “Annuario della...
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In the Queue
24 March 2019 By Philip Kuepper Like boats waiting, patiently, in a queue, for the drawbridge to be raised, my poems wait, to raise the interest of the reader. (18 March 2019)
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RRM@21 – 13: When Rodney met Elizabeth…
25 March 2019 By Chris Dodd HM the Queen opened the River & Rowing Museum officially on 6 November 1998. Founder Chris Dodd recalls a thespian occasion when his dream came true. Although rowing...
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