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 […]
A marathon reading of Arthur Ransome’s classic story Winter Holiday is happening at Windermere Jetty on Sunday (30th January). The all-day event has been organised by writer and lecturer Chris Routledge, in association with The Arthur Ransome Trust. He also staged a similar readings of Swallows and Amazons on the shore of Coniston Water in […]
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. […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust will be joining in the ‘Robertsons Boatyard and Friends‘ event in Woodbridge this weekend as part of the Deben Summer Festival. Come and visit the River Deben’s oldest working boatyard, which takes care of Nancy Blackett every year, and meet some of the Trust team who look after Nancy and find […]
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the publication of Swallows and Amazons, Sophie Neville participated in a live online conversation with Natasha Scullion of Lakeland Arts on Tuesday 1st December, which included a Q&A for viewers. You can now watch the 90-minute recording of that conversation below, with thanks to Lakeland Arts… Sophie’s story about ‘The […]
On Tuesday 1st December, Lakeland Arts celebrated the 90th anniversary of the publication of ‘Swallows and Amazons’ with an online event accessible for anyone in the world, a recording of which is now available here for all to view, writes Sophie Neville… After a career as a foreign correspondent, which took him to Russia, Egypt and China, […]
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 series of online lunchtime book discussions with special guests by Ketts Books, a community bookshop in Wymondham, Norfolk. Sophie Neville […]
Sophie Neville will be in conversation online with Lakeland Arts during the evening of December 1st to help celebrate the 90th anniversary of the publication of Arthur Ransome’s best known story Swallows and Amazons. Sophie played the role of ‘Titty Walker’ in the 1974 film adaptation of Swallows and Amazons, and has since become a leading […]
It’s eighty years since the publication of Arthur Ransome’s classic Norfolk Broads story The Big Six, so an anniversary talk was given by the Nancy Blackett Trust’s President Peter Willis as part of the Sea Fever Literary Festival in October. Wells Maltings has now published the video of the talk which you can watch below, while […]
Yes – Arthur Ransome’s The Big Six – the sequel to Coot Club – was published 80 years ago in 1940, on 29th November in fact. To mark the occasion, North Norfolk’s Sea Fever Literary Festival has invited the Nancy Blackett Trust’s President Peter Willis to give a talk on the book and how it […]
Swallow from the original Swallows and Amazons film visited the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow at Windermere Jetty on Tuesday. Rob Boden took her along while filming was taking place, and enjoyed answering questions from art expert Rupert Maas about how she was acquired at auction in 2010 (with some assistance from the Nancy Blackett Trust) and […]
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