Summer 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.

Exploring the Influences on Ransome’s Life

Our Camp Fires series of talks and events continued on Wednesday, August 24 at Brantwood, where Vicky Slowe, curator of the Ruskin Museum, Coniston, explored the many fascinating links between individuals and events in Coniston’s history.

You can read more about the evening here.

Our summer progamme concludes on Saturday, September 3, with Imagination and Reality: Arthur Ransome’s Maps.

The Secret Waters of Arthur Ransome’s Life

Our Camp Fires series of talks and events continued last night, when Roland Chambers gave a well-informed personal interpretation of Arthur Ransome’s fascinating and complex life.

You can read a review of the event here.

Ransome’s Foreign Legion Visits Brantwood

Our Camp Fires series of talks and events continued last night, when Robert Thompson spoke on Ransome’s Foreign Legion: a humourous, fascinating and informative tour of the foreign translators and illustrators of Arthur Ransome’s twelve Swallows and Amazons novels.

You can read a review of the event here.

Arthur Ransome Events Coming in August

Our summer programme of Camp Fires events continues next Wednesday, 3 August, with Robert Thompson’s Ransome’s Foreign Legion, at Brantwood, followed a week later by Roland Chambers talking about Ransome’s life in Secret Water, at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal.

One Week to The Homing Stone and Old Peter’s Russian Tales

Wednesday, 13 July, 7.00pm: A dramatic performance of Arthur Ransome’s classic Russian folk-tales, and his perilous escape from Russia.

Hugh Lupton is Arthur Ransome’s great-nephew and one of Britain’s foremost oral story-tellers. As such he is uniquely qualified to tell The Homing Stone, his own work recounting Arthur Ransome’s escape from Russia in 1919, and some of Old Peter’s Russian Tales, his great-uncle’s classic versions of traditional Russian folk-stories.

“Hugh Lupton’s storytelling art is sheer wizardry in the guise of utter simplicity… a packed house sat in a thrall of enchantment, no movement, no intrusive sounds…” (Eastern Daily Press).

Christina Hardyment Delivers Inaugural Lecture

Christina Hardyment delivered the Trust’s first Camp Fires public talk at Brantwood this evening.

Almost 50 people gathered in the studio at Brantwood to hear Christina talk aboout The Lake in the North. As one of Arthur Ransome’s Literary Executors, and the author of Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint’s Trunk, Christina was highly-qualified to talk about the places and people who helped to inspire Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons novels.

Grab a Chance at Our Summer Talks and Events

Grab the chance when our inaugural Camp Fires series of public talks and events begins next Wednesday evening, at Brantwood. Christina Hardyment will be talking about “The Lake in the North“. Refreshments (included in the £5.00 ticket) will be available from 7.00pm, with the talk itself beginning at 7.30.

Arthur Ransome: Master Story-teller Competes for Book Award

Congratulations to Roger Wardale, whose book Arthur Ransome:Master Story-teller has been named on the long list for the 2011 Lakeland Book of the Year Awards.

Arthur Ransome: Master Story-teller is Roger’s latest book. You can see a full list, together with titles by other authors about Ransome, on the new Books About Arthur Ransome page of our site, which we’ve just added to our Bibliography Section. 

Imagination and Reality opens at Brantwood

Around 100 guests visited Brantwood last night for the official opening of Imagination and Reality: the Art of Arthur Ransome. A fine spring evening helped visitors enjoy both the exhibition and the main house at Brantwood.

The exhibition is now open daily until September 4, accompanied by a series of lectures and events at Brantwood and Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal.