tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-288925012011-11-03T20:45:53.431ZArthur Ransome essays. The search for the real life people and places that inspired Arthur Ransome to write about the Swallows and Amazons and the D's. Arthur Ransome style adventures. Arthur Ransome resources.Jocknoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28892501.post-90324547657510059072009-12-25T22:25:00.039Z2010-01-25T09:55:33.639Z

"Dick's Pocket Book" is list of Arthur Ransome related links originaly created by contributors toTarBoard and hosted by Ian Edmonson. Having grown somewhat chaotically, it became rather difficult to search and some of the links became broken. Following the relaunch of TarBoard, Dick's Pocket Book was grounded for barnacles to be scrubbed off the hull and seams to be recaulked. Now soon DPB will

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I'm indebted to the three IND... readers who left comments on the last post for the inspiration for this one.Dr Duncan Hall wrote: (extract)I would probably begin from a starting point of suggesting that Ransome was not really trying to 'implant' political lessons in anybody's mind... And then there are certain values - what childhood should be like, justice and fairness, being protective of

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TarBoard, is a very lively discussion board dedicated to Arthur Ransome and his works. Whenever Arthur Ransome's politics have been discussed a consensus quickly arises supporting the view that whatever AR's politics may have been in his youth - and whatever lingering socialist sympathies AR may have retained throughout the rest of his life - the Swallows and Amazon series is completely

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New Ransome research wins Turner Elephant PrizeIt's not every day that a new piece of Arthur Ransome original research wings its way across the Internet, so we are doubly delighted to be able to reproduce Duncan Hall's first article on his brand new AR blog Great Northern. It always a pleasure to welcome the arrival of a new AR e-resource, such as Great Northern, but the article Swallow

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An Amazonian Adventure Source: Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of South America by David Hatcher ChildressPercy Fawcett had always been fascinated in archaeology and history. He often took long walks, exploring. In 1893, while a young British officer stationed at Tricomalee, Ceylon, he ventured out on one of his long walks into the remote jungle areas of the island.That day, a storm

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Birmingham Stage Company tourSwallows and Amazons is steeped with references to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Captain Flint, his parrot and his treasure chest immediately come to mind. In Swallowdale we discover that a previous generation of explorers had already requisitioned Peter Duck's cave for Ben Gunn. Thanks to Disney and Brian Henson's Muppet Treasure Island many children

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This satellite photograph, courtesy Google Maps, shows Quay House (top), Pilot's Cottage (middle), and Thatched Cottage, aka Ransome's Witch's Cottage (bottom).In my youth the foreshore was not fenced off. The new fencing is apparent on the satellite picture and also on this map courtsey of DEFRA's MAGIC Project.The MAGIC map shows an apparent attempt to divert the public right of way along the

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at the British LibraryThe following recordings made by Arthur Ransome are kept in the British Library Sound Archives. For further information see the BL Sound Archives own WWW pages here. Note, only three items have call numbers and two are categorised as 'product'.

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MTS, with help from BBD and PHWhen this was first posted in December 2006 there was no totally satisfactory Arthur Ransome biography on the Internet. Since then a really splendid illustrated biography has been published on-line by The Arthur Ransome Society (TARS).Our version, which started as a school project and was then polished with the help of contributors to TarBoard, remains here as the

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Laurence MonkhouseBeing an account of a voyage down the Thames made by three steamboats in September 2006. Suilven has a fixed canopy with side-screens attached at night and in bad weather, Mudlark has a cabin. Phaeton, the smallest at 16 feet is open, the sleeping accommodation is a tent canopy put up at night. Despite this she has made many long voyages in Britain and in France.TUESDAYRain

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Some musings on an ancient debateandybFirst published on Tarboard on May 21, 2006I found this amongst some old papers. I think I wrote it some years ago with the intention of sending it to Mixed Moss in response to a debate about the origins of the Amazon pirates. I’m not sure if it ever arrived at Mixed Moss, certainly it never appeared in it. Anyway, I read it, quite liked some of it and

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The Crossley Girls by Iain HobbsStudying the mapIf you follow the hints laid out by Ransome in Swallows and Amazons and Swallowdale, and study a map of Windermere, you arrive at a place on the North-West shore that matches the description of Beckfoot in all except the layout of the house. The geography of the area is detailed later in The Picts and Martyrs.In SA, the people who live in the house

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