THE 170th edition of The Boat Race will take place along the River Thames TODAY. And while its long history has seen all sorts of weird and wonderful events - protesters, sinking boats ...

The Cambridge victory, 13th since the War, made a record: it was the first time in the 104-year history of an event properly and completely described as “The Boat Race” that either crew had ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like any British institution, the Boat Race is steeped in peculiarity. Established between Oxford and ...