Events
A selection of Swallows and Amazons events for the current year. Please click on the event links for further details and contact the relevant organisers directly for any enquiries.
Ongoing Events
- Boats / All year / View Mavis (the inspiration for Amazon) / Ruskin Museum, Coniston
- Boats / All year / View Swallow and Amazon (2016 film) / Windermere Jetty Museum
- Boats / All year / Hire Amazon from the 1974 film / Hunter’s Yard, Norfolk
- Boats / Until Mid-October / Sailing trips on Nancy Blackett (Goblin in the books) by booking (membership required) / Woolverstone, Suffolk
- Activities / Until September / Swallows and Amazons cruises / Coniston Launch
One-off Events in 2024
- Reading / January 7th / Arthur Ransome Society reading of Secret Water (membership required) / Online (Zoom)
- Reading / January 14th / Arthur Ransome Society reading of Secret Water (membership required) / Online (Zoom)
- Meeting / January 20th / Arthur Ransome Society: SW AGM (membership required) / Online (Zoom)
- Meeting / January 20th / Arthur Ransome Society: Midland AGM & Junior Parley (membership required) / Selly Oak
- Event / January 27th / Arthur Ransome Society: Northern Region Birthday Party (membership required) / TBC
- Event / January 28th / Arthur Ransome Society: SW Celebration Lunch for Arthur Ransome’s Birthday (membership required) / Okehampton, Devon
- Talk / January 31st / Swallows and Amazons and the Russian Revolution / Romsey
- Talk / February 10th / Arthur Ransome Society: SW Region Zoom Talk (membership required) / Online (Zoom)
- Walks / February 24th / Arthur Ransome Society: Rattletraps-on-the-Water (membership required) / Bourton-on-the-Water
- Activities / March 16th / Arthur Ransome Society: Archery (membership required) / Derbyshire
- Activities / March 23rd / Arthur Ransome Society: SW Trek (membership required) / Castle Cary, Somerset
- 50th Anniversary: Films, Talks / April 6th / Swallows and Amazons (1974) screenings and Q&A with Sophie Neville and David Wood / The Cinema Museum, Kennington, London
- Activities / April 13th / Arthur Ransome Society: Another Author – Roald Dahl (membership required) / Great Missenden
- Activities / May 11th / Arthur Ransome Society: Black Country Museum (membership required) / Dudley
- Activities / May 11th / Arthur Ransome Society: Visit to Morwellham Quay (membership required) / Morwellham
- Boats / May 25th / Nancy Blackett at the OGA Deben Classics Rally / Woodbridge
- Activities / June 8th / Arthur Ransome Society: Paint and Swim (membership required) / Droitwich Spa
- Activities / June 15th / Arthur Ransome Society: Canal Trip (membership required) / Bradford on Avon
- 50th Anniversary: Talks & Films / June 28-29th / Celebrating 50th Anniversary of filming Swallows and Amazons (1974) with Sophie Neville / Windermere Jetty Museum
- Boats / June 29th / Nancy Blackett at the Pin Mill Barge Match / Pin Mill
- Boats / July 6th / Nancy Blackett at the Heybridge Basin Regatta / Heybridge
- Activities / July 13th / Arthur Ransome Society: Sparkinson Interviews (membership required) / Online via Zoom
- 50th Anniversary: Film / July 13th / Swallows and Amazons at the Riverside Cinema / Woodbridge
- Activities / August 15-18th / Arthur Ransome Society: High Tops in the High Peaks (membership required) / Great Huckley
- Activities / September 1st / Arthur Ransome Society: Ivy Walk (membership required) / Bishopsteignton and Teignmouth
- Boats / September 7-8th / Nancy Blackett at the Classic Boat Festival, St Katherine Docks / London
- Activities / September 21st / Arthur Ransome Society: Exploring Sherwood Forest (membership required) / Edwinstowe
- Activities / October 12th / Arthur Ransome Society: Mappa Mundi (membership required) / Hereford
- Event / October 12th / Arthur Ransome Society: Bring & Scoff Literary Day (membership required) / Creech St Michael
- Activities / November 16th / Arthur Ransome Society: Crafts on the Farm (membership required) / Wellingborough
- Talk / November 23rd / Arthur Ransome Society: Talk on Heraldry (membership required) / Online via Zoom
- Activities / December 7th / Arthur Ransome Society: Festive Zoom (membership required) / Online via Zoom