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 […]
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 coincidence that Orwell and the Ransomes were both in Southwold at the same time in 1939. Written by Ivan Cutting, […]
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 Blackett Blackett Trust’s President Peter Willis. Nine unmissable boat-related films are being shown over the Festival’s three days, which is […]
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 present owner of Ransome’s Peter Duck. Her talk is entitled “Racundra, Peter Duck, Avola: unwilling to accept a final […]
A marathon reading of Arthur Ransome’s classic story Pigeon Post is happening near Coniston tomorrow (29th September). The all-day event starts at 8am at the Coniston Coppermines Youth Hostel and has been organised by writer and lecturer Chris Routledge, in association with The Arthur Ransome Trust, who also staged a similar reading of Swallows and Amazons on […]
Update (January 3rd 2020): Please note that plans for this event are currently under reconsideration due to the illness of our proposed speaker Libby Purves. We hope Libby will be recovered and well enough to fulfil the engagement later in the year, and wish her well. Meanwhile we are holding the booking for March 20th at […]
With two weeks of the summer holidays still to go, there are still plenty of Swallows and Amazons activities left to do, some of which continue into the autumn or beyond. For theatre-goers, Swallows and Amazons the musical is on stage at York’s Theatre Royal until August 24th, while the Windermere Jetty Museum has Swallows […]
It’s the end of the first week of “Swallows and Amazons” on stage at York’s Theatre Royal, so here are some photos of the production. There are also photos below of the theatre foyer decked out to promote the show. To see the original photos click on the relevant Facebook icons [f].
Nancy Blackett was on show at the Harwich Maritime Festival last Saturday, berthed at the historic Ha’penny Pier, as captured in our photos below.
With Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows & Amazons’ about to take to the stage at York’s Theatre Royal, Steve Pratt looks back at the lasting legacy of the 1974 film with actress and writer Sophie Neville. Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows & Amazons’ has been part of Sophie Neville’s life for fifty years. Filming on location in the Lake District in […]
The Sailors’ Reading Room in Southwold now contains an additional book in its library, thanks to the Nancy Blackett Trust. Members of Nancy Blackett’s crew visited it on a recent trip to the town, and left behind a copy of “Good Little Ship”, the book about Nancy Blackett, her association with Arthur Ransome, and her […]
A production of Arthur Ransome’s children’s classic “Swallows & Amazons” will be taking to the stage of York Theatre Royal from next month, as this year’s summer family show. Damian Cruden, in his final production after 22 years as York Theatre Royal’s Artistic Director, co-directs the production with Artistic Associate John R. Wilkinson. The story […]
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