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Winter Holiday takes to the Stage

by Nancy Blackett

A brand new theatre production of Arthur Ransome’s novel Winter Holiday will take to the stage this month, before appearing in the Lake District in March. The play will be on stage for three days at the Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury from 16th to 18th February, before appearing for two days at the Old Laundry […]

Please vote for Selina King in the
Classic Boat Awards!

by Nancy Blackett

Arthur Ransome’s Selina King has been shortlisted for this year’s Classic Boat Awards, in the ‘Restored Sailing Vessel Under 40ft’ class. The largest and finest of Ransome’s yachts, she has been entered by King’s Boatyard of Pin Mill where she was built 85 years ago, and where she is now completing a long and complex […]

Our new Nancy Blackett video is now on YouTube

by Nancy Blackett

Sailing Nancy Blackett is the title of a new video portraying Nancy Blackett under sail on the river Orwell. Shot specially for the Nancy Blackett Trust by film-maker Jon Swallow, the seven-minute short features narration by the Trust’s founder and president Peter Willis and shows Arthur Ransome’s ‘best little boat’ setting sail from Woolverstone Marina […]

It’s Last Orders for your Nancy Blackett Christmas gifts!

by Nancy Blackett

It’s time for last orders for your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop! Choose from our fabulous range of “Swallows and Amazons” and Nancy Blackett gifts, knowing that your purchases will go to a very good cause – keeping Nancy Blackett afloat and available for everyone! Please order your Christmas gifts by Monday 12th December […]

Nancy Blackett’s Countdown to Christmas

by Nancy Blackett

With Christmas upon us in just a few weeks’ time, here’s our updated handy guide to the last dates for ordering your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop, and to this year’s special offers. Choose from our range of Swallows and Amazons and Nancy Blackett-themed books, greetings cards, teatowels and more, knowing that the proceeds will go towards supporting the […]

Buy Christmas Offers from the Nancy Blackett Shop

by Nancy Blackett

With Christmas upon us in just a few weeks’ time, here’s our handy guide to the Nancy Blackett Shop’s special Christmas offers. This year you can help celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Nancy Blackett Trust with our Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Teatowel & Tote Bag Offer (below), the designs of which are based in the […]

Nancy Blackett joins Selina King ashore for the winter at Harry King’s, Pin Mill

by Nancy Blackett

Nancy Blackett is now ashore for the winter, following a long and busy autumn afloat, making the most of the unseasonably mild weather. She was collected last week from her berth at Woolverstone Marina on the spring tide and brought just a mile downriver to Pin Mill by Gus Curtis – to be lifted out […]

Your Christmas 2022 ordering deadlines for the Nancy Blackett Shop

by Nancy Blackett

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 […]

Arthur Ransome’s Selina King returns to the Orwell and Harry King’s

by Nancy Blackett

Arthur Ransome’s Selina King has returned to the Orwell and Harry King’s at Pin Mill, the yard that she was built in 84 years ago, following a restoration which began in Bermuda and continued in Itchenor five years ago, writes Peter Willis… She was delivered by low-loader to Fox’s yard on the evening of Thursday […]

Buy Julia Jones’ new story Voyage North from the Nancy Blackett Shop

by Nancy Blackett

Voyage North, the seventh and final book in Julia Jones’s Ransome-inspired Strong Winds series is out now. Donny finds himself on the superyacht of a Russian oligarch, heading towards the Arctic Circle with a canister of toxic waste. But will this bring him closer to answers to the questions that have troubled him ever since […]

See Sophie Neville and Swallow at the Southampton International Boat Show this Saturday 24th September

by Nancy Blackett

Swallow, the iconic dinghy that starred in the original film of Swallows and Amazons is currently on display at the Southampton International Boat Show, greeting families as they arrive, while Sophie Neville, who played Titty Walker in the film, has been giving talks on filming afloat and how it was made on location in the […]

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