It’s the setting for one of Arthur Ransome’s wonderful books, and today it’s farmed by a single family with innovation and care ...

There are some stories that go against the cultural grain so deeply that we refuse to believe them. Arthur Ransome's "secret life" is apparently one of them. Last week the National Archives ...

Arthur Ransome’s well-loved Swallows and Amazons stories are full of adventure and independence. The stories are set in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is a well-known tale of high adventure for four children in the 1930s who set off in their sail boat one summer to reach an uninhabited island in the middle of Coniston Water, in the English Lake ...

Swallows and Amazons depicts a bygone age far from our risk-averse times. The book opens with the arrival of a teasing telegram from the Swallows’ father: “BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS ...

Arthur Ransome’s tales of boats and adventure - many of which were set in Suffolk - changed the course of children’s literature. But, says Julian Lovelock, who has written a book about Arthur ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

His innocent tales of adventure under sail and canvas in the Lake District have established Arthur Ransome as a cherished master of children's literature. But a new biography of the Swallows and ...