Get back into reading with a little help from Nancy Blackett’s Book Month, celebrating 80 years of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”! We’re encouraging everybody to get reading after…
Welcome to the Nancy Blackett Trust’s Book Month, celebrating 80 years of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, first published November 1937. Here at the Nancy Blackett Trust, we’re all…
To celebrate the start of the Nancy Blackett Trust’s Book Month, you should enter our competition to win a signed copy of the second edition of “The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)” by…
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. Lesley Bennett and Kit Seymour, playing the Amazon pirates, set off with…
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”, as shot in-camera by Martin Neville, Sophie Neville’s father. The cast and crew…
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s 80th Anniversary Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” took place last Saturday (21st October) at Pin Mill Sailing Club near Ipswich. It also…
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. Dennis Lewiston, the Director of Photography, is with Claude Whatham and the film crew of “Swallows and Amazons” on the …
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s nine-hour marathon reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” on Saturday 21st October received coverage in local media, including a short film shown on ITV…
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)” at Bowness-on-Windermere, the location…