Come and meet the Nancy Blackett Trust at Robertsons Boatyard, Woodbridge – Nancy Blackett’s winter home – during their Open Day this Sunday, 20th September. Anyone interested is welcome to come along, and while Nancy Blackett herself won’t be there, members of the Trust will be manning an information and sales stand. They will also […]
An exhibition celebrating the Armenian connections of Swallows and Amazons has opened in the Newbiggin Maritime Centre, Northumberland. Swallows and Armenians has arrived at beautiful Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland! #swallows #Aleppo #LakeDistrict #arthurransome #swallowsforever #tittyforever #displacement #migration pic.twitter.com/6cOsKCsPHe — Swallows and Armenians (@babayancumbria) September 1, 2020 Swallows and Armenians is a passionate and personal project by artist […]
The latest exhibition at Windermere Jetty features many items relating to author Arthur Ransome, his life and his most famous book Swallows and Amazons, celebrating the 90th anniversary of its publication. While the museum remains temporarily closed, it has produced a short Curator’s Tour video of the exhibition which you can watch below…
You can now catch up with the recent online marathon reading of Arthur Ransome’s The Picts and the Martyrs, the fourth marathon reading from the Swallows and Amazons series to have taken place in the past four years. The event was organised by writer and lecturer Chris Routledge, who was also behind the live readings […]
The Swallows and Amazons episode of the series The Secret Life of Books returns to the BBC tomorrow, with an early morning broadcast on BBC4, followed by a month’s availability on BBC iPlayer. The episode features scenes with author Christina Hardyment and Geraint Lewis of the Arthur Ransome Trust, including some filmed on Coniston Water. […]
The 1974 adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s iconic book Swallows and Amazons starring Virginia McKenna will be screened on BBC Two on Friday 17th April at 3.00pm and then be available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days here, writes Sophie Neville, who played Titty Walker in the film. Please add any questions about how the movie was made to […]
Everyone can now join in an online Easter Egg Hunt from Windermere Jetty, with a chance to win a family ticket to the museum attraction when it reopens. The Easter eggs are hidden throughout Windermere Jetty’s website, and the clues that they contain can be entered on a downloadable activity sheet, which should then be […]
The inaugural Brian Hammett Memorial Talk with Julia Jones has been rescheduled to Friday 18th September. Existing bookings are being transferred to that date with the option of cancellation and refund for anyone who is unable to make the new date, while all attendees should already have been notified by the RHYC, who would be […]
It’s the final weekend of the Swallows and Armenians exhibition in Carlisle, so here’s an earlier video walkabout of it by curator Karen Babayan.Â
A new play about Arthur Ransome and George Orwell goes on tour across East Anglia this spring and tickets are now on sale. Produced by Eastern Angles, Red Skies is based on the coincidence that Orwell and the Ransomes were both in Southwold at the same time in 1939. Written by Ivan Cutting, the play […]
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 Bawdsey Village Hall the doors open at 7pm and the talk starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are £2 on the door […]
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 Top, a former farmhouse dating from 1860, was first rented by the Ransomes in 1956, before they bought it in […]
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