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September 2011
Kirsty Nichol Findlay Interview on BBC Radio 4
Kirsty Nichol Findlay, editor of the forthcoming Arthur Ransome’s Long-lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson was interviewed about the book yesterday on BBC Radio 4.
The interview is currently available here, at the BBC News website.
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Imagination and Reality Exhibition Finishes
Our inaugural Temporary Moorings exhibition, Imagination and Reality: the Art of Arthur Ransome finished yesterday, September 4.
A big “thank you” to everyone who came to see it. We do hope that you found it both enjoyable and informative, and that it complimented your visit to John Ruskin’s home at Brantwood.
Read moreSummer Events Season Concludes with Arthur Ransome’s Maps
Our Camp Fires series of talks and events concluded last night with Imagination and Reality: Arthur Ransome’s Maps, a joint Royal Geographical Society, Brantwood Trust and Arthur Ransome Trust event.
Heavy rain and local flooding sadly meant that a number of people were forced to cancel, but some 25 went on the lake expedition, courtesy of Coniston Launch. Others were able to join them for the seminar that followed at Brantwood.
Read moreSchedule Shaping Up for Swallows and Amazons Tour
The schedule for the forthcoming Swallows and Amazons Tour is shaping up, with bookings already open at a number of venues.
The Tour opens with a five week run at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End (December 15, 2011 – January 14, 2012), followed by visits to Chichester, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Coventy, High Wycombe, Malvern, Darlington, Norwich, West Yorkshire, Canterbury, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, Plymouth, Blackpool and Cardiff.
Read moreRansome’s Critical Study of Robert Louis Stevenson Approaches Publication
The work’s publishers, Boydell & Brewer, have announced that Arthur Ransome’s Long-lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson will be published on 15 September, 2011.
This is the first time that Ransome’s critical study, Robert Louis Stevenson, will be published. Originally commissioned in 1910, Ransome’s unfinished manuscript disappeared in 1914 and was believed lost for many decades, until its chance discovery in a London bank vault.
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