All Things Ransome is an unincorporated association registered in California in 2010. It operates two websites associated with the British author, Arthur Ransome. All Things Ransome is a repository of some of Ransome's very early works and contains published and original articles and other information about Ransome. TarBoard is a discussion board for Ransome related topics. Although there are close connections, All Things Ransome is a completely separate organization from The Arthur Ransome Society (TARS), a British-based literary society focussed on Ransome.
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Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The books remain popular and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake.
The Arthur Ransome Society, also known by its acronym Tars, and whose members refer to themselves as Tars, is a society whose goals are to "celebrate the life, promote the works, and diffuse the ideas of Arthur Ransome". It is based at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal, England.
All Things Ransome (ATR) originated in a project to save the contents of the TARS website "Literary Pages" which were not included in the new design when the Society's website was updated. The TARS Literary Pages had original articles, contemporary reviews and links to on-line copyright expired ebooks about Ransome or used as sources by Ransome.
All Things Ransome is intended to be a research tool for the works and life of Arthur Ransome, and the sources and influences relevant to his work. ATR also provides a storage for Ransome-related materials, especially for non-ephemeral works, essays, articles, TARS related newsletters etc.. Among the unique items available are some very early Ransome books which have long been out of print but are made available in PDF form with the permission of the Arthur Ransome Literary executors. [1] ATR also has links to many other Arthur Ransome sites available on the internet.
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The All Things Ransome and TarBoard sites are linked to by most other Arthur Ransome websites as significant resources. [2] [3] [4] [5] In addition there are links from other sailing and boating related organizations. [6] [7] [8]
TarBoard was originally set up as project of Iain Edmondson-Noble in 1996. It is a discussion board for Arthur Ransome related topics. When Edmondson-Noble decided that he could not continue to operate the discussion board in 2008, TarBoard was taken over by a group of participants. It was then included as one of the operations of All Things Ransome.
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Swallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by English author Arthur Ransome; it was first published in 1930, with the action taking place in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District. The book introduces central protagonists John, Susan, Titty and Roger Walker (Swallows), their mother, their baby sister (Bridget), as well as Nancy and Peggy Blackett (Amazons) and their uncle Jim, commonly referred to as Captain Flint.
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