On page 12 of the Puffin paperback edition of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows And Amazons, a mother addresses her seven-and a-half-year-old son Roger on a hillside above one of the deepest lakes in England.
A new art project is exploring how the characters in the English children’s classic were modelled on a family from Aleppo Arthur Ransome’s fictional Walker children – John, Susan, Titty and Roger – ...
Forthcoming film version of Swallows and Amazons will rename the character Tatty to avoid innuendo, but publisher insists she’ll stay Titty in books Titty might be turning into Tatty in the BBC’s ...
Best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of lighthearted adventures for children, penned in the 1930s and ’40s, Arthur Ransome is thought by many to have been a mild-mannered Englishman who ...
Arthur Ransome wrote We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea while living on the Orwell estuary at Pin Mill Well-known names will read an Arthur Ransome sailing novel in one go at the setting where it was written ...
Fact is certainly stranger than fiction in the secret life of Arthur Ransome, one of Britain’s best-loved writers of children’s books. To his relatives, Ransome was the kindly, quiet old man whose ...
The University of Leeds is home to a huge archive collection relating to Swallows and Amazons author Arthur Ransome. Chris Bond went to find out more. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...
When the BBC announced plans to recreate the classic outdoor children's sailing adventure Swallows and Amazons it was hailed as a blockbusting antidote to the health and safety culture of the ...
English Heritage said the author is largely associated with the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads Craig Simpson is Arts Correspondent for The Telegraph covering the major issues affecting British ...
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