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…
We’re celebrating the voyages of Nancy Blackett, and the Goblin in “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, with our new North Sea Voyage Commemorative Postcards and Mini-Posters. They…
Nancy Blackett had a busy Autumn between her Dutch Adventure over the summer and the 80th Anniversary Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” in October, writes John…
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…
This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. Her final two weeks…
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…
This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. The stories of the…
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…