A glorious Spring Bank Holiday weekend in the Lakes saw a number of “Swallows and Amazons” events organised by the Arthur Ransome Society (TARS) around its IAGM, including sailing Swallow (from the 1974 film) on Coniston Water. Here are some highlights from the weekend with contributions from TARS President Sophie Neville, who was also interviewed […]
You can now listen to the short interview that Sophie Neville gave to BBC Radio Cumbria ahead of the Swallows and Amazons events held in the Lake District over this Spring Bank Holiday weekend. Sophie spoke to Mike Zeller on Thursday 24th May about how, 45 years ago to the day, she was filming swimming […]
During this coming week “Swallows and Amazons” will be celebrated over several days with a series of events held in the Lake District. Sophie Neville, president of The Arthur Ransome Society, will be at the Braithwaite Institute near Keswick tomorrow (May 24th) to give a 45th anniversary talk on ‘The Making of Swallows and Amazons’. She […]
A celebration of Arthur Ransome’s Norfolk Broads stories and boats was held at the Norfolk Broads Yacht Club’s Open Day over a glorious May Day Bank Holiday weekend, as Sophie Neville reports… For the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, I travelled up to Wroxham with my camera and memory stick for the Norfolk Broads Yacht […]
Last weekend saw the start of the Tavistock Music and Arts Festival, which was opened on Saturday (21st April) in the portrait room of the Bedford Hotel by Sophie Neville, President of the Arthur Ransome Society, in the company of the Festival’s Trustees and its President, the composer Andrew Wilson. Sophie gave her talk and Q&A session about […]
A two-day conference to celebrate the Collingwood Archive and the year-long project to catalogue it will take place at Cardiff University at the end of April. The archive includes correspondence between Arthur Ransome and the Collingwoods. The Collingwood Archive William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932), a professional artist and professor of fine arts at the University of […]
A new stage version of “Swallows and Amazons” will be performed this summer in Chester, at both the Storyhouse and Grosvenor Open Air Theatres, reports Broadway World. Written by award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery, and directed by Katie Posner, “Swallows and Amazons” is Arthur Ransome’s 1930’s story of adventure and childhood. Alex Clifton, artistic director of Storyhouse, […]
It has been a busy week for the Nancy Blackett Trust, with final preparations under way for the start of Nancy Blackett’s new season this weekend. Following all the necessary repairs and maintenance tasks over the winter period, last Monday saw anti-fouling being applied, while on Tuesday she was taken out of the shed at […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust was at last Sunday’s busy “We Do Mean To Go To Sea” Conference at the Royal Hospital School, organised by the Woolverstone Project with the Cruising Association. Several Nancy Blackett Trust members took part in various capacities, including leading some of the workshops., while former Paralympic yachtswoman Hannah Stodel gave one of the […]
To celebrate a multiple anniversary, Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett retraced his (and his fictional Goblin’s) wake across the North Sea to Flushing – and stayed to explore the local waterways, as told in this special article written by Peter Willis, President of the Nancy Blackett Trust, which was featured in the October/November 2017 edition of “Classic […]
Following our successful 8-week visit to Holland last summer, for this New Year we’ve chosen to explore our very own East Coast with all of its fascinating rivers and creeks – all the way from Lowestoft and the Norfolk Broads down to Ramsgate, including the River Thames, up to the Pool of London, and the […]
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