All Things Ransome is an unincorporated association registered in
California
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in 2010. It operates two websites associated with the British author,
Arthur Ransome
Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of childre ...
. ''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
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 ...
(TARS), a British-based literary society focussed on Ransome.
''All Things Ransome''
''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
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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
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form with the permission of the Arthur Ransome
Literary executor
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s. ''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. In addition there are links from other sailing and boating related organizations.
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TarBoard
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''.
References
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External links
''All Things Ransome'' websiteTarBoard discussion board
Arthur Ransome
American literature websites
Literary societies