The Boat Race 2026: Dark Blues, Light Blues and a Long Run of Cambridge Dominance Cambridge arrive as favourites for today's Boat Race, but Oxford have been waiting a long time. Our preview of the 2026 race from Putney to Mortlake.
The Boat Race: A Short History of Britain's Long Rivalry on the Thames It began, as so many English traditions do, with two friends and a disagreement about where to hold the party. In 1829, Charles Merivale of St John's College, Cambridge, and his old school friend Charles Wordsworth of Christ Church, Oxford, arranged a race at Henley-on-Thames between
