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HTBS@10: Not Wimping Out – The HTBS 10th Anniversary Lunch
The HTBS 10th Anniversary Lunch was held at Auriol Kensington Rowing Club in Hammersmith, West London. The Club also loaned some of its silver to adorn the table. 26 March 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch...
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A Boat Race Light in Style but Heavy on Class
The Oxford Lightweight Blue Boat leads its Cambridge rivals just after Hammersmith Bridge. Photo by permission of Allmarkone. 27 March 2019 By William O’Chee Oxford and Cambridge rowing fans have more...
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Brexit: Rocking the European Boat
In 1890, the young German Emperor’s ambitions for his new country were perceived as upsetting the delicate balance of power in Europe that had existed since 1815. 28 March 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch...
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RRM@21 – 14: Happy Birthday and Many Happy Returns
Heather Stanning and Helen Glover’s ‘Unbeaten Boat’ is going into the Rowing Gallery at the River and Rowing Museum in November. 29 March 2019 By Chris Dodd The River & Rowing Museum was conceived...
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Letters That Mean So Much: A Suggestion From ‘Steve’
The programme for the 10th Head of the River Race (HoRR) held on 30 March 1935. The eighty-second race will be held exactly eighty-four years later on 30 March 2019. 30 March 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch...
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Pulling Through – The Story of the King’s Cup
30 March 2019 By Louis Petrin, of Drummoyne Rowing Club Early Friday morning, there was a Centenary breakfast to launch the new book by Dr Bruce Coe, Pulling Through – The Story of the King’s Cup. As...
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The Boat and The Oars
At SIRC in Penrith, a crew travelled back in time, to the 1919 Peace Regatta in Henley. 31 March 2019 By Louis Petrin, of Drummoyne Rowing Club Australia had entered two crews for the Royal Henley...
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A Current Affair
Photo: lnydp 31 March 2019 By Philip Kuepper More and more, the bright red telephone booths of Britain are disappearing, and at a time of Brexit, a double cutting of a cord of communication, Brexit, in...
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RRM@21 – Revisited
The two founders of River and Rowing Museum in 1998 – David Lunn-Rockliffe (left) and Chris Dodd. Photo: Catherine Shakespeare Lane. 1 April 2019 Last Friday, HTBS published Chris Dodd’s last article...
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A History of Women’s Rowing in Fascist 1930s’ Italy – Part III
Società Canottieri Lario & G. Sinigaglia (Como) women’s crew. 1 April 2019 On 29 March, Marco Giani published the third part about women rowing in Italy in the 1930s on the website Playing Pasts....
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Gender Non-Binary: The 2019 Head of the River Race
‘Steve’ looks out from the Mile Post at his creation, the Head of the River Race (HoRR). Officially, 2019 is classed as the 86th race but, pedantically, I count 82 (this number excludes the two started...
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Crewcial Collectables: A Nice Pair – Part I
Champein O’rs: Songs an’ tunes frem the Golden Age iv North East Rowin’. CD released by Tyne and Wear Museums in 2009. 3 April 2019 By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe takes a busk from Newcastle to...
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Crewcial Collectables: A Nice Pair – Part II
Regatta Songs and Stories (2004). 4 April 2019 By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe continues his busk from Newcastle to Newfoundland and finds himself in a strangely familiar place. I recently purchased a...
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Looking Forward To The Boat Race?
You could be a braying idiot, interested in something that hardly qualifies as sport Boat Race Day, 2015. An example of ‘a bunch of poshos rowing higher up the social hierarchy’? 5 April 2019 By Tim...
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Tincture and Tallow
6 April 2019 By Larry Fogelberg Tincture and Tallow – what do those words have to do with rowing? The photo above explains: something some oarsmen rub on their hands. Maybe oarswomen too, I haven‘t...
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Oxford – not the best crew in Oxford (to be fair, Cambridge wouldn’t be either)
On the day before the 2019 Boat Race, Ben Duncan (Cambridge 1973 and 1974) casts a critical eye over the crews racing 45 years on. 7 April 2019 By Tim Koch On the morning of the big day, Tim Koch looks...
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When Oarsmen were Gunmen
J.M.B. Scott of Brasenose College accompanies a race during Summer Eights in Oxford in May 1946. 8 April 2019 By William O’Chee Seventy years ago, the image above could easily have been taken for an...
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Boat Race Day 2019: Who said what and plus ça change
A picture that paints a thousand words, mostly four-letter ones. Oxford President Felix Drinkall (left) and Cambridge President Dara Alizadeh (right) shake hands and exchange stares after the flipping...
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P to M: Par For The Course
The Putney to Mortlake Course as illustrated in 1875. 10 April 2019 By Tim Koch While Boat Race Day is still fresh in our minds, Tim Koch has a closer look at the course. When I teach beginners the...
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The Oxbridge Veterans: Masters All
The Oxford Crew for the 2019 Oxford – Cambridge Veterans’ Race. With the exception of Ladbrokes (1976 – 1981), this picture also shows the history of sponsorship of the Boat Race. On display is kit...
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