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We Are, And Can Never Not Be
Photo: Shehab Abbas on Unsplash.com 20 December 2020 By Philip Kuepper The sea redeems us. The soft, silvery scalloping of the waves moves us as we stand anchored on static earth, my body a boat I row...
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The First Oxbridge Women’s Boat Race: Emulating the Pale (and Dark) Blue...
Having just won the first Oxford – Cambridge Women’s Boat Race, the captain and cox of the 1927 Oxford University Women’s Boat Club Crew enjoy a post-race smoke. They had given up tobacco, cinemas,...
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Winning Ways…
Cath Bishop (left) and Katherine Grainger (right) celebrate after finishing second in the Women’s Pairs at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. 23 December 2020 By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd muses on British...
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2020: A Year Like No Other
24 December 2020 Dear HTBS Readers & Rowing Friends, 2020 was a trying year. Who in the beginning of the year thought it was going to be so chaotic on so many levels? With barely any rowing...
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No Humbug: The Spirit of The Boat Race Yet to Come
2020 has been a year that has seen more than its fair share of ‘humbug’, but in 2021 the organisers of the Oxford – Cambridge Boat Races hope to give us all a lovely fat goose in the form of races held...
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The Rower’s Mind
27 December 2020 By Philip Kuepper Winter came, then, free of the baggage of compromise. It had iced-over the river. That was non-negotiable. An errant oar lay frozen where it had been forgotten. The...
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“The Sport of Rowing” on World Rowing
28 December 2020 By Peter Mallory Peter Mallory has a fine belated Christmas present for everyone. It is to be found on World Rowing’s revised website after New Year’s. I am very pleased to announce...
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Ouse-ing with Talent: The 2021 Boat Race Trials
Welcome to Ely – twinned with Siberia. In this picture posted on @CUBCSquad on 18 December, the Cambridge boat stroked by Oliver Parish puts in time on the Ouse before their trial race against the...
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Martin: A Cross that’s Good to Bear
Having collected their Gold Medals for winning the 1984 Olympic Coxed Fours, Martin Cross, Richard Budgett, Andy Holmes, Steve Redgrave and Adrian Ellison seem to be doing their impersonation of a crew...
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2020 – Annus Horribilis: HTBS in the Numbers
Joe Leyendecker’s images of men’s semi-nude bodies helped HTBS to reach a record year, being impacted by the plague or not. 31 December 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn At the end of the terrible year 2020,...
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May 2021 Be a Better Year…
1 January 2021 HAPPY NEW YEAR To All Our Readers The HTBS Team
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I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Bl-Ouse*
One hundred years ago: The Cambridge (top) and Oxford (below) crews from 1921. 1 January 2021 By Tim Koch After I wrote my piece on the recent Boat Race Trials, the Oxbridge boat clubs posted coverage...
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Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore
(A Birthday Tribute) 3 January 2021 By Philip Kuepper It was not that he had a desire to. He would have been thrilled to row more years, and I with him. There were square miles more water to row, the...
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The Burnell Albums
The Richard Burnell collection includes two albums recording his entire rowing career, while another includes all his more recent press cuttings. 4 January 2021 By Robert Treharne Jones A recent attic...
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1914: Last in the Last Torpids Before the War
The Christ Church 3rd Torpids crew in 1914, rowing badly. 6 January 2021 By Teresa Stokes As a change from the elite athletes usually depicted on HTBS, in this article Teresa Stokes presents her...
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The Cerebral Giant
Richard Desborough Burnell (1917 – 1995) pictured in 1948 and 1973. He won the double sculls with Bert Bushnell at the 1948 London Olympics. 7 January 2021 By Chris Dodd The discovery of Richard...
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Vintage Typewriters: My Halda and I
The 1957 Swedish Halda that found its way to Connecticut via Germany. 8 January 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn 2020 was a strange year, indeed. Göran R Buckhorn found himself buying a non-rowing related...
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CUBC 1939: Cissies who Laughed Last…
The Cambridge Crew of 1879 and the Oxford Crew of 1953 vary their training. 9 January 2021 By Tim Koch Tim Koch discovers that (gasp) a woman made an important contribution to training for the 91st...
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Racing the Self
10 January 2021 By Philip Kuepper Splendor-bound through scintillate sun, the rower rows blind, for the brightness thrown at his every pull on the oars. He rows as much by the senses, as the muscles....
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Reverting To Type
Henley’s River and Rowing Museum has the historic typewriter that belonged to women’s rowing pioneer, Amy Gentry. The ‘Underwood Model 5’ came out in 1900 and became the standard for all typewriters...
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