To mark the 90th birthday of Arthur Ransome’s yacht Nancy Blackett, her owner the Nancy Blackett Trust is offering free copies of Arthur Ransome’s We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea to local schools in …
Sophie Neville, star of the original Swallows and Amazons film and author of The Making of Swallows and Amazons, writes about the letters that she has received about how the film has changed people’s lives, …
The audiobook of Swallows and Armenians is now available for free from Audible. Swallows and Armenians is Karen Babayan’s story of the Anglo-Armenian Altounyan family who inspired Arthur Ransome to write his first book of …
A Happy New Year from the Nancy Blackett Trust – with two bits of good news: Despite Royal Mail increasing its postal rates from January 1st, we are keeping our UK postage-and-packaging rates at the …
Sophie Neville recently talked to Books at Lunchtime about all things Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome and living the life of the book. You can watch the 35-minute video below… Books at Lunchtime is a …
Bidding is well under way for a hardback first edition copy of The Secrets of Filming Swallows and Amazons (1974), signed for you by the author Sophie Neville, and brought to your door or PO …
Sophie Neville asks readers to write in with any points that they may notice that she can add to a third edition of her e-book The Secrets of Filming Swallows and Amazons (1974)… Viewers of …
Swallows & Amazons (1974) starring Virginia McKenna is to be broadcast on BBC 2 at 12.20 on Sunday 30th August 2020, recalling the adventures of the Walker and Blackett families on a “Lake in the …
The original film adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s “Swallows and Amazons” returns to the BBC this Sunday 30th August . The 1974 film will be available to watch here on iPlayer for 30 days, following a …
Those kids are back – all of them plus two new Maori friends – for a new environmentally-aware and Ransome-inspired adventure that starts when they discover a wounded seal. In Those Seal Rock Kids, his …
Work has finally started on the restoration of Shotley Pier, with the removal of unsightly concrete slabs at the shoreward end, and their replacement with reclaimed timber. The work began on 17th June, having been …
This weekend (June 19-21) was to have seen a triple event for the Nancy Blackett Trust: the first Brian Hammett Memorial Talk, our AGM and an open day aboard Nancy Blackett as part of the …
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