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World Rowing Coastal Championships at Victoria Harbour
16 October 2019 For the 2019 World Rowing Coastal Championships in Hong Kong, China, from 1 to 3 November, the organisers have received the greatest number of entries for a coastal regatta hosted...
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Old Oxford Blue Recipient of USRowing Medal of Honor
17 October 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn USRowing announced yesterday that the organisation’s highest honour, the USRowing Medal of Honor, goes to Christopher ‘Chris’ Blackwall of Philadelphia. USRowing...
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Kate Hickes Joins Trinity Women’s Rowing Coaching Staff
18 October 2019 Some local rowing news from Connecticut. Joining head coach Heather Barney and assistant coach Julie Warren, the Trinity College women’s rowing team has announced that Kate Hickes will...
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The Race for Doggett’s Coat & Badge
Photo: Tim Koch 19 October 2019 The brilliant website Playing Pasts now and then posts articles on rowing. And when they do, HTBS doesn’t want our readers to miss out. On 14 October, Roy Case published...
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The Twilit Hour
20 October 2019 By Philip Kuepper Late October light, the color of butterscotch, slants shinily across calm cobalt water, light through which a man rows a dory, the crisp air colding toward dusk, dark...
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The Girl in the Boat
Third from right, Jennifer Huffman, Joe Rantz’s granddaughter, raced with her teammates from College RC at the Head of the Charles and placed second in their boat class. Photo from Head of the Charles...
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RRM Celebrates Women in Rowing with New Exhibit
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning © Peter Spurrier 22 October 2019 The River & Rowing Museum announced the opening of a significant new display in its International Rowing Gallery this month in...
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The Contest for the Democrats’ Stroke Seat
A TIGHT RACE AHEAD – STROKE PARKER – Now steady boys, get together! 23 October 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch gets into a Party mood. One of my favourite themes is Jean-Baptiste Karr’s epigram, plus ça...
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1948 Olympic Silver Medallist Paul Bircher Dies
The 1948 GB rowing team. Paul Bircher is in the second row, sixth from left. Photo: Thames RC’s archives. 24 October 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn Paul Bircher, Olympic oarsman in the British eight who took...
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En Plein-Air
Photo: Tim Koch. 26 October 2019 By Philip Kuepper As I watched, women rowing became an abstract painting, as a scrim of haze fell, a veil, down the air. Rose to meet it blades of waves that cut the...
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The Beautiful Rowers of Stonington
28 October 2019 By Philip Kuepper Tall, slender as birch, they match, bodily, the sleek shells they row. Long-armed, for pulling long oars, they exist in synchronicity. Plying the water, they are...
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Party On
Gladstone’s Liberal Government of 1868 – 1874 brought in unpopular laws restricting the sale of alcohol. The brewers gave their considerable support to the opposition Conservative Party and this was a...
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Golden Oars Auction is Open
30 October 2019 National Rowing Foundation (NRF) would love to see you in New York City for the Golden Oars event on 7 November, the organisation writes in a message. HTBS has earlier written about...
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David Winser – One Whom The Gods Loved
David Winser 1 November 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn Göran R Buckhorn remembers David Michael de Reuda Winser, one of the fine Oxford oarsmen during the 1930s. He died 75 years ago at age 29. The last time...
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An Original Grace
3 November 2019 By Philip Kuepper What mattered to her was breaking free of the stereotype, breaking free of being an appendage to a preconceived notion of femininity. Her ability to row came early to...
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Bonza: The State Library of South Australia
Three students pictured in 1890 identified as ‘The Three Rs’ i.e. left to right they are Rowdy, Rowing and Reading. SLSA B-69996-50. 4 November 2019 By Tim Koch Tim Koch finds an online archive that is...
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Serendipity Strikes Again
James ‘Jim’ Larkin addressing a crowd in 1913. 8 November 2019 By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe has cooked up a new cocktail for HTBS: Dublin Cobbler. A jigger of good Irish history A gill of artistic...
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The Sun Sets On The East
The national emblem of the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) on a DDR rowing vest. 9 November 2019 By Chris Dodd On this day exactly 30 years ago, a wall collapsed and a...
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Not Broken
“A Chelsea Pensioner” by JH Gardiner (1888 – 1952), a portrait hanging in the museum of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. The ‘RH’ was founded by Charles II to look after old soldiers ‘broken by age and...
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Reminder: Rowing Future Conference
11 November 2019 This is a quick reminder about an exciting event at River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames coming up this Friday evening and Saturday. Enjoy the exclusive opportunity to hear...
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