There is just over a week left to see a special exhibition in the Lake District dedicated to the author of Swallows and Amazons . From Coniston to the Kremlin: Arthur Ransome’s Russian Adventures is on display at the Ruskin Museum, in Coniston, until …
Arthur Ransome, a close friend of the Collingwood family, based the Walker children in Swallows and Amazons(1930) on Dora and Ernest’s children…
Entries came in from across the globe for a poetry competition organised by the owners of an iconic Lake District farm with a literary heritage…
The creator of Swallows and Amazons , The Big Six and – in the case of the above excerpt – 1934’s Coot Club filled his children’s books with fun and adventures on the waters of the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. It is now 50 years since he died …
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Sailing Secretary John Smith reports… “Had a message from Nancy Blackett at sea this morning off the entrance to the river Deben: “Approaching…
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Sailing Secretary, John Smith, updates us on the last leg Nancy’s homeward voyage… “I checked Nancy Blackett out yesterday after our engineer left…
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s President Peter Willis and Chairman Roger Sturge spent a fairly ‘interesting but ultimately frustrating’ Saturday afternoon at the Royal Norfolk and…
Tom Williams will be running technical workshops and Jez Pike, director of productions, will be talking about about the upcoming production of Swallows and Amazons which will run from August 18 until September 2. Visitors will also be given a sneak …
A reading of a classic children’s tale will mark the end of a summer-long exhibition. Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons will be told by special readers on September 3 as a show at the at the Ruskin Museum in Coniston about the author and his most …