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Great Northern?: Ransome the Socialist
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Sunday, 23 March 2008. When I have had occasion to dip my toe into this subject on Tarboard and elsewhere, it has generally caused sparks to fly. People seem far from comfortable talking about the subject and have tended, prompted by Ransome's own remarks (principally to Special Branch! To cling to the conclusion that he had no real politics at all. That Ransome (for 'a week or two') took the. Was a minority pursuit indeed! Britain for the British. Not to mention Morris'. Britain for the British. Was pub...
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Great Northern?: Swallows and Amazons - the movie?
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Monday, 16 June 2008. Swallows and Amazons - the movie? The internet was full of 'Lord of the Rings Movie - rumours and gossip' websites. People with strange online pseudonyms like 'Eowyn' and 'Durin' quarrelled wonderfully about whether Bob Hoskins would make a good Bilbo Baggins, whether Tom Bombadil would play any part (and who was he? Whether Sam would be a girl, and whether the Balrog should have wings! Do we know if principle photography has started? Will they use special effects? Friar's Crag coul...
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Great Northern?: A Ransome Adventure
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Saturday, 5 April 2008. I've just returned from a day in the southern Lakes, and about as Ransome-y day as I've spent in a long time! During the day I've tried to investigate some of the theories I suggested in an earlier post (the one advocating a geographical approach to locations); I've explored High Topps and I've been to the marvellous Kirkland Books in Kendal. It has a high, rocky promontory. The path up into the woods from Belle Grange is paved as it was once a road. I've been up there bef...Back ...
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Great Northern?: A new blog!
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Saturday, 15 March 2008. I seem to start new blogs terribly often! How long I keep posting to them is another matter! However, I begin this one with no illusions! I shall blog occasionally. Part of the reason for blogging here is so that I can write detailed articles on this subject, illustrated with photographs, etc. in a way that isn't quite appropriate for Tarboard or other people's blogs. I do want to try and engender some debate - so I shall post controversially on Ransome's politics very soon!
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Great Northern?: April 2008
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Saturday, 5 April 2008. I've just returned from a day in the southern Lakes, and about as Ransome-y day as I've spent in a long time! During the day I've tried to investigate some of the theories I suggested in an earlier post (the one advocating a geographical approach to locations); I've explored High Topps and I've been to the marvellous Kirkland Books in Kendal. It has a high, rocky promontory. The path up into the woods from Belle Grange is paved as it was once a road. I've been up there bef...Back ...
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Great Northern?: July 2008
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Thursday, 31 July 2008. REVIEW: Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick. The book is written in two quite distinct styles, though both voices belong to Ransome. Until the Revolution, the story is told like one of Old Peter's Russian Tales (Old Peter, Vanya and Maroosia are borrowed to help this along). After war and Revolution, just as Ransome's style changed, so the voice of Ransome here changes. It becomes quite a straight, first-person narrative. That said, there were rather basic biographical detail...
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Great Northern?: March 2010
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Tuesday, 9 March 2010. Dramatising We Didn't Mean to go to Sea. These were some notes I wrote some months ago, which I was asked to turf out by contributors to Tarboard - I hope they are of interest! There are also a number of key challenges:. Most of the action takes place across one night in a small boat in the dark. Some of the favourite characters of other books (e.g. The Amazons and Captain Flint) are absent; instead the Swallows are more-or-less on their own. The end is an undoubted problem. It...
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Great Northern?: June 2008
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Monday, 16 June 2008. Swallows and Amazons - the movie? The internet was full of 'Lord of the Rings Movie - rumours and gossip' websites. People with strange online pseudonyms like 'Eowyn' and 'Durin' quarrelled wonderfully about whether Bob Hoskins would make a good Bilbo Baggins, whether Tom Bombadil would play any part (and who was he? Whether Sam would be a girl, and whether the Balrog should have wings! Do we know if principle photography has started? Will they use special effects? Friar's Crag coul...
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Great Northern?: Dramatising We Didn't Mean to go to Sea
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Tuesday, 9 March 2010. Dramatising We Didn't Mean to go to Sea. These were some notes I wrote some months ago, which I was asked to turf out by contributors to Tarboard - I hope they are of interest! There are also a number of key challenges:. Most of the action takes place across one night in a small boat in the dark. Some of the favourite characters of other books (e.g. The Amazons and Captain Flint) are absent; instead the Swallows are more-or-less on their own. The end is an undoubted problem. It...
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Great Northern?: Swallows locations: the case for a geographical approach
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Sunday, 16 March 2008. Swallows locations: the case for a geographical approach. Take Stephen Spurrier's original map of the lake, and compare with a contemporary Ordnance Survey map:. The two maps are remarkably similar. Clearly Rio and and Long Island are very recognisable. The geographical logic of the Ramp Holme location is also fairly inescapable. Is there a house in the right place for Holly Howe? Wasn't there also a weeping willow right on the edge of the lawns on the bank of the river as well?