Nancy Blackett’s Spring Delivery Trip
This year, Nancy Blackett’s spring delivery trip (in March) from Woodbridge to Woolverstone started in snow and ended in sunshine, as our photo album shows…
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Conference and Exhibition to Reveal Secrets of the Collingwood Archive
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 Collingwood Archive William Gershom…
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Get “Good Little Ship” and “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” together for just £20
Don’t miss out on our special offer to get the definitive stories that feature Nancy Blackett and explore her history together for just £20. Arthur Ransome’s story of “We…
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Buy your own replica Nancy Blackett for under £3,000
A sister Hillyard yacht of Nancy Blackett is for sale and could be yours for less than £3,000, but only until 21st April. A 7-ton Hillyard 28′ wooden cutter, the Fortuna III was built 1931 and…
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New Version of Swallows and Amazons Comes to Chester This Summer
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.
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We Did Mean to Go to Zeeland – Nancy Blackett in the Netherlands, by Peter Willis
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…
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BBC Radio Suffolk Interview – Peter Willis on Good Little Ship
Here’s another chance for you to listen to Nancy Blackett Trust President Peter Willis’s interview about his new book “Good Little Ship: Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the…
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Video: Arthur Ransome’s anniversary and Nancy Blackett on film
Highlights of last year’s Arthur Ransome’s East Coast anniversary celebrations on the Shotley Peninsula have now been captured in a short film – available to watch below in fullscreen high-definition…
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Photo: Nancy Blackett Under Way From Woodbridge
Nancy Blackett departs from Robertson’s, Woodbridge for Woolverstone for the start of her new season on 20th March 2018. She is now at her regular summer base at Woolverstone Marina…