There are just a couple of days to go to the 80th Anniversary Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, which starts at 9am on Saturday 21st October. In honour of the book’s 80th anniversary…
The book, published in 1937, is part of the Swallows and Amazons series and is set on the banks of the River Orwell. Chapters will be read aloud, from beginning to end, over around eight hours starting from 9am on Saturday. Libby Purves, Julia Jones …
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Chairman Peter Willis was interviewed by afternoon presenter Lesley Dolphin on BBC Radio Suffolk on 9th October . Topics covered included the upcoming 80th…
Among those reading are comedian Griff Rhys Jones, Radio Four’s Libby Purves, and Sophie Neville (Titty in the 1970s film Swallows and Amazons ). If you would like to read a section of the book, you can sign up to do so here. After the reading, Griff …
On Saturday 21st October I will be joining Griff Rhys Jones, Libby Purves and author Christina Hardyment at Pin Mill Sailing Club on the River Orwell, near Ipswich in Suffolk, to take part in a marathon reading of Arthur Ransome’s …
There’s just a week to go to our Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, starting 9am next Saturday, 1st October. We have our book, a First Edition, in honour of…
Nancy Blackett is featured in the Autumn edition of “Discover Greater Anglia”, the quarterly free magazine available from Greater Anglia trains. The feature article, “Arthur’s…
The Selina King exhibition at Anthony Cullen’s Pin Mill Studio was featured in the June edition of “Essential Suffolk“. The feature article, “Arthur Ransome: an East Coast…
The new issue of Classic Sailor magazine contains a six-page feature article about Nancy Blackett’s summer trip to the Netherlands. The October/November issue is In the shops from today…