Monthly Archives: July 2019

On Saturday 6th July, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, led a workshop in the Sailors’ Reading Room as part of the event programme for the exhibition W.G Sebald- Far away but from where? https://scva.ac.uk/art-and-artists/exhibitions/wg-sebald-far-away-but-from-where Marking what would have been the 75th birthday of W.G. Sebald (1944–2001), the exhibition combines rare and unseen archive material with work by leading contemporary artists. In Sebald’s celebrated book, The Rings of Saturn, the narrator visits the Sailors’ …

On Monday 1st July the Reading Room was visited by Peter Willis, Neil Brooks and Tim Everton who were sailing the Nancy Blackett “a little white cutter” previously owned by the author of “Swallows and Amazons” and the inspiration for “We Didn’t Mean to go to Sea” the classic sailing book. The boat is kept at Pin Mill on the Orwell and maintained by The Nancy Blackett Trust, a charity set up to keep her …