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Henley Royal Regatta
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Henley Royal Regatta
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Henley Royal Regatta
This informal history of the 150 years of the Henley Royal Regatta examines individual episodes and characters from different periods and uses them as points of departure to unfold the story. The author looks at controversial issues which have divided the rowing world over the years, such as diet and health, rowing techniques, the structures of the boats, whether the events should be amateur or professional and whether foreign sportsmen should be allowed to compete.
The Trinity College VIII
A light-hearted account of how the 1977 Dublin University Boat Club won the cherished Ladies Plate at the Royal Henley Regatta, describing their prowess on the water and misadventures on land.
Sport in Britain
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Pleasure Boating on the Thames
The River Thames above London underwent a dramatic transformation during the Victorian period, from a great commercial highway into a vast conduit of pleasure. Pleasure Boating on the Thames traces these changes through the history of the firm that did more than any other on the waterway to popularise recreational boating. Salter Bros began as a small boat-building enterprise in Oxford and went on to gain worldwide fame, not only as the leading racing boat constructor, but also as one of the largest rental craft and passenger boat operators in the country. Simon Wenham's illustrated history sheds light on over 150 years of social change, how leisure developed on the waterway (including the rise of camping), as well as how a family firm coped with the changes brought about by industrialisation – a business that, today, still carries thousands of passengers a year.
Rowing
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The Games
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. From the ancient Greeks to today’s festival of sponsors – this is the definitive sporting, social and political history of the Olympic Games. 'An excellent, pacy, anecdote-studded history of the modern Games' – The Times The Olympic Games have become the greatest show on earth. But how was such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper and how has it been so utterly transformed? In The Games, sports historian David Goldblatt takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers and brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history. Beginning with the Olympics as a sporting side show at the great Worlds Fairs of the Belle...
