Category: Rowing
‘Seventeen men and a girl chasing one another up the Thames’: Sue Brown and the 1981 Boat Race
NB – This article was first published on Playing Pasts in 2017 The Boat Races are a...
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Rowing Under Ponte Vecchio:
A History of Women’s Rowing in Fascist 1930s’ Italy
Part 3
For Part 1 see – bit.ly/2VogaEV and for Part 2 – bit.ly/2Ii81y6 6.1. Finally, let’s...
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Rowing Under Ponte Vecchio:
A History of Women’s Rowing in Fascist 1930s’ Italy
Part 2
For Part 1 of this series see – bit.ly/2VogaEV 4. Moving to the active side, let’s...
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Rowing Under Ponte Vecchio:
A History of Women’s Rowing in Fascist 1930s’ Italy
Part 1
The author wishes to express his special thanks to Rachel Mc Namara and Elisa Gallina for the...
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Mrs K. L. Summerton: The forgotten founder of the Women’s Amateur Rowing Association?
The Women’s Amateur Rowing Association (WARA) has attracted little academic attention, yet as the...
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Historical Perspectives on Female Contributions to Sports Leadership
This video is from a public lecture given at MMU Cheshire Campus for Internation Women’s Day...
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Competitive Women’s Rowing in Britain Since 1945: The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century
In recent years, the participation, visibility and success of competitive women’s rowing has...
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Liberté, Egalité, Sororité – or a lot of nonsense about rowing shorts?
The launch of European Women’s Rowing Championships in 1954, sanctioned by FISA, demonstrated...
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