It’s time for last orders for your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop! Choose from our fabulous range of “Swallows and Amazons” and Nancy Blackett gifts, knowing that your purchases will go to a very good cause – keeping Nancy Blackett afloat and available for everyone! Please order your Christmas gifts by Wednesday 13th December […]
With Christmas upon us in just a few weeks’ time, here’s our handy guide to the Nancy Blackett Shop’s special Christmas offers. Our Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Teatowel & Tote Bag Offer is still available (below), the designs of which are based in the cover of Good Little Ship: Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the […]
Sailing Nancy Blackett is the title of a new video portraying Nancy Blackett under sail on the river Orwell. Shot specially for the Nancy Blackett Trust by film-maker Jon Swallow, the seven-minute short features narration by the Trust’s founder and president Peter Willis and shows Arthur Ransome’s ‘best little boat’ setting sail from Woolverstone Marina […]
It’s time for last orders for your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop! Choose from our fabulous range of “Swallows and Amazons” and Nancy Blackett gifts, knowing that your purchases will go to a very good cause – keeping Nancy Blackett afloat and available for everyone! Please order your Christmas gifts by Monday 12th December […]
With Christmas upon us in just a few weeks’ time, here’s our updated handy guide to the last dates for ordering your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop, and to this year’s special offers. Choose from our range of Swallows and Amazons and Nancy Blackett-themed books, greetings cards, teatowels and more, knowing that the proceeds will go towards supporting the […]
With Christmas upon us in just a few weeks’ time, here’s our handy guide to the Nancy Blackett Shop’s special Christmas offers. This year you can help celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Nancy Blackett Trust with our Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Teatowel & Tote Bag Offer (below), the designs of which are based in the […]
Nancy Blackett is now ashore for the winter, following a long and busy autumn afloat, making the most of the unseasonably mild weather. She was collected last week from her berth at Woolverstone Marina on the spring tide and brought just a mile downriver to Pin Mill by Gus Curtis – to be lifted out […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s contribution to the Felixstowe Book Festival on Saturday June 25th was part of a highly entertaining and successful day-long series of events under the title of Suffolk and the Sea. The day included items from Trust members Claudia Myatt, Jane Russell from chart publishers Imray and Julia Jones, who also curated […]
Suffolk author and sailor Julia Jones looks forward to the upcoming You Too Can Go To Sea event on 25th June at the Two Sisters Arts Centre in Trimley St. Mary, Suffolk – led by the Nancy Blackett Trust as part of the 2022 Felixstowe Book Festival’s Suffolk and the Sea Day… I was sitting […]
It was exactly 25 years ago today – June 9th 1997 – that the newly-formed Nancy Blackett Trust took over ownership of the Nancy Blackett, the yacht that inspired Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s novel We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea. She appears in the book as the Goblin, and was described by Ransome as […]
Supper bookings for the Brian Hammett Memorial Talk this Friday (18th March) are now closed, but a limited number of £12 seat-only tickets remain available. Presented by the Nancy Blackett Trust and TARS East, the talk will be given by Julia Jones, present owner of Arthur Ransome’s Peter Duck, and well-known East Coast sailor and […]
The title for the Brian Hammett Memorial Talk comes from a call-out for volunteer to the newly-formed Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve at the beginning of World War II. Many amateur yachtsmen – notably from the East Coast – responded, and Julia’s new book Uncommon Courage chronicles their exploits and contributions to the war effort. […]
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