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12 April 2026

By Philip Kuepper

‘Mornings I rise
through layers of entombed
sleep. I surface.
I wake. I breathe.
I grab hold the oars
of consciousness. I rise
from oblivion to awa...


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Cartoonist JAK’s imagining of Old Blues watching the television coverage of the 1969 Boat Race.

9 April 2026

By Tim Koch

In 1928, C.P. Scott, the editor of the <...


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8 April 2026

By Gavin Jamieson

With permission from The Boat Race Company, HTBS republishes Gavin Jamieson’s article that appeared in the 2026 Boat Race Programme. Gavin provided the imag...


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Both boat club flags at Putney. As I mention annually and pedantically, OUBC was not founded in the year of the first Boat Race, 1829, it was formed at a meeting held on 23 April 1839 following the third race and Oxford’s second loss. CUBC was founded on ...

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The victorious Blues, the Oxford women and the Cambridge men. Picture: The Boat Race.

5 April 2026

Tim Koch, text
Boat Race Company, photography

Tim Koch takes stock.


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