An exhibition celebrating the Armenian connections of Swallows and Amazons opens in Carlisle, Cumbria, next week. Swallows and Armenians is a passionate and personal project by Appleby artist Karen Babayan which celebrates the inspirational Anglo-Armenian …
Julia Jones, author and owner of Arthur Ransome’s Peter Duck, will be giving an illustrated talk about her father’s Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939. this evening in Bawdsey, Suffolk. The venue is …
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of Swallows and Amazons (1974) at Bowness-on-Windermere, the location for ‘Rio’ in Arthur Ransome’s story. Shot on 16mm film (Bolex)… You can read the …
Congratulations to Clare Buckingham, the Nancy Blackett Trust’s Young Sailor of the Year in 2018, who has just been awarded the prestigious title of Best Potential Sail Training Skipper by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency …
Stephen Sykes, owner of Arthur Ransome’s last home, Hill Top in Haverthwaite, will be giving a talk about “The Ransomes at Hill Top” next Friday at the Carthouse Cinema in nearby Oxen Park, Cumbria. Hill …
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below of the Amazon boathouse, shot in 1973 during the filming of Swallows and Amazons (1974) at ‘Beckfoot’ on 16mm Bolex film… You can read the whole story by Sophie Neville, who …
A new play about Arthur and Evgenia Ransome and George Orwell comes to the stage in Ipswich this April, and tickets are now on pre-sale. Produced by Eastern Angles, Red Skies is based on the …
Classic films Riddle of the Sands (1979) and Swallows and Amazons (1974) are both showing at this weekend’s Maritime Film Festival in Woodbridge, with introductory talks by the former’s producer Drummond Challis and the Nancy …
We’re delighted to announce that the speaker for the first Brian Hammett Memorial Talk is to be Julia Jones, and bookings are now open. Julia is a well-known local author and sailor – she is …
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Chairman Peter Willis was interviewed by afternoon presenter Lesley Dolphin on BBC Radio Suffolk on January 10th. Topics covered included Peter’s recent receipt of the RYA Lifetime Commitment Award, how Arthur Ransome …
The Nancy Blackett Trust will be featured on BBC Radio Suffolk this Friday (January 10th). President Peter Willis will be the guest on presenter Lesley Dolphin’s sofa between 3pm and 4pm. If you are outside …
Peter Duck, once owned by Swallows and Amazons author Arthur Ransome, is now owned by another well-known writer, book reviewer (Yachting Monthly) and publisher Julia Jones. My Classic Boat travelled to the East Coast for …
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