You can now get a free gift with every purchase of Good Little Ship: Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the Goblin until the end of this year. You can choose between a coaster, fridge magnet or a large square greetings card featuring the book’s cover art of Nancy Blackett sailing past Pin Mill by Woodbridge-based marine artist Claudia Myatt.  […]
From the makers of Walton’s Secret Water and A Journey Through Constable Country, this new film is an affectionate look at the ancient seaport of Harwich, home of the legendary Mayflower that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. Mostly shot during the summer of 2019, Portrait of Harwich shows the Harwich Arts and Illuminate […]
The first new Christmas card for some time joins the Nancy Blackett range – titled “Christmas in the Shed”, it’s a square format blank card featuring a whimsical Claudia Myatt design with Nancy Blackett decorated for the season in the boatyard. It’s available from the Nancy Blackett Shop in packs of 10 at £5, and […]
The classic TV documentary A Voyage with Nancy Blackett is back in the Nancy Blackett Shop, now as a DVD – but supplies are strictly limited. The half-hour programme was made for Anglia TV in 1992 and features Nancy Blackett sailing on the River Orwell and the Walton Backwaters, with commentary from Christina Hardyment, Roger […]
Grab a chance and don’t be sorry for a might-have-been! Many of our supporters have already started buying their Christmas gifts from us, so to help you plan ahead for your own shopping, here’s our handy guide to our last dates for ordering your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop… Please note that our […]
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 the original Swallows and Amazons film have written to point out that when the Amazons sailed up to Captain Flint’s […]
Sophie Neville has released a collection of women’s clothing, featuring her hand-painted maps of locations featured in her book on The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974). Available from her Redbubble shop, the collection, which is perfect for birthday gifts, can be seen here. You can also preview some of the designs below… Derwentwater map A-line dress […]
From the makers of Walton’s Secret Water, this new film, A Journey Through Constable Country, takes the viewer on an exploration of the countryside around the Stour and Orwell that inspired John Constable, one of East Anglia’s greatest painters, visiting the landscapes, towns and villages that he loved around the Stour and Orwell estuaries and further […]
If you know an Arthur Ransome enthusiast who has a birthday coming up, Sophie Neville has put together a collection of useful clothing for men and women, featuring her hand-painted maps of locations featured in her book on The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974). Her Redbubble shop has an assortment of T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, pullovers […]
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 North” in August 1929 before the school term began, writes Sophie Neville. Hailed as “the feel-good film of Lockdown”, it […]
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 repeat broadcast on BBC2 at 12:20pm. The behind-the-scenes story of the film is told in the book “The Making of […]
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 fifth book in this Ransome-influenced series, Jon Tucker deftly marshals the original kids – Jess, Jake and Fin, plus friends […]
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