The first-ever Nancy Blackett Book Month has been such a success that it’s now extended to the end of the year, with all the existing special offers continuing, and some new ones being added –…
Stock up on your Christmas gifts from our Swallows and Amazons Shop and you will help Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht, Nancy Blackett, keep sailing. Whether you want to give a “Swallows and Amazons” present to a special someone..
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. Sophie Neville, on a day off from filming “Swallows and Amazons”, watches the…
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. Whilst the sun shone on Derwent Water the cast and crew of “Swallows and Amazons” set up to film Captain Flint, played by Ronald Fraser, being captured…
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. The actors and crew relax after lunch on the shore of Derwent Water…
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. A montage of behind the scenes footage of the actors and crew preparing to shoot a swimming scene at Peel Island on Coniston Water for…
Don’t miss out on our Nancy Blackett Book Month deals, celebrating 80 years of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”! We’re encouraging everybody to get back into reading after the…
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. Sophie Neville, aged 12, rowing a skiff at home in Gloucestershire in April 1973 when she was preparing to appear as Titty in…
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. Wardrobe Master Terry Smith walks to a waiting boat wearing Ronnie Fraser’s pith helmet. We approach…