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Grab Your to Visit Nancy Blackett on Woolverstone Marina Day

by Nancy Blackett

Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett will be having an open day on Saturday 9th June as part of Woolverstone Marina Day. Visitors will be able to explore the “Swallows and Amazons” author’s favourite yacht, take home souvenirs from the Nancy Blackett stall and meet Nancy Blackett Trust President Peter Willis. Other activities and attractions planned for […]

Swallows and Amazons Summer Theatre Discounts Are Here!

by Nancy Blackett

Swallows and Amazons fans can now get specially discounted tickets for this summer’s theatre productions of “Swallows and Amazons” in Chester, thanks to Storyhouse. A new version of the stage play by Bryony Lavery will have just ten performances at the Storyhouse Theatre between 1st and 30th June, before transferring to the Grosvenor Park Open […]

Highlights of a Swallows and Amazons Weekend in the Lakes

by Nancy Blackett

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 […]

A Short Swallows and Amazons Interview With Sophie Neville

by Nancy Blackett
Sophie Neville at Peel Island on Coniston Water, 4th Sep 2017. Photo by Sophie Neville.

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 […]

A Week of Swallows and Amazons Celebrations in the Lakes

by Nancy Blackett
Sophie Neville with the Rushton children at the Marathon Reading of Swallows and Amazons, 3rd Sep 2017. Photo by Sophie Neville.

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 […]

Introducing the Selina King Exhibition Catalogue and Greetings Card

by Nancy Blackett

On the first anniversary of the Selina King Exhibition at Pin Mill, we are pleased to announce the publication of the exhibition’s catalogue, as well as a commemorative greetings card. The Exhibition Catalogue not only includes half-page reproductions of Arthur Ransome’s photographs of the build and launch of Selina King, but also an introduction and background notes, […]

An Arthur Ransome weekend at the Norfolk Broads Yacht Club

by Nancy Blackett

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 […]

Contribute your stories to the next edition of “The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)”

by Nancy Blackett

Sophie Neville is longing to add even more of your stories to the third edition of her book “The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)“, as she explains below… Almost as soon as we published the second edition of “The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)” in May 2017, a number of facts and stories […]

Nancy Blackett Featured in the Shotley Peninsula and Coastal Guides

by Nancy Blackett

Nancy Blackett can now be seen all over East Anglia in more than 10,000 copies of two new free promotional magazines. The Shotley Peninsula Guide, a 40-page A4-size publication promoting the area around Pin Mill, features a double-page spread on Nancy Blackett, a further page on our Selina King photographic exhibition at the Pin Mill […]

Out of the “Swallows and Amazons” archives: a script for a BBC Radio Bristol show about the original 1974 film, and much more…

by Nancy Blackett

When the 1974 film of “Swallows and Amazons” first came out in cinemas it stirred up quite a bit of interest in the media, as Sophie Neville reveals… This script for a programme made for BBC Radio Bristol has recently been discovered in a box in my mother’s attic. Typical of the early ‘seventies, it is […]

Swallows and Amazons at the Tavistock Festival

by Nancy Blackett

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 […]

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