Ice Stations – A Ransome-Style True Adventure
The January 2018 issue of Yachting World magazine published an article by Australian Arthur Ransome Society (AUSTARS) member Jon Tucker, telling the story of his sailing from Tasmania to the South…
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Swallows and Amazons at the Tavistock Festival
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…
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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…