These audio tracks were made for an immersive installation - Tressell's Children, in St. Andrews Mews in Hastings for Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2023. 
The tracks were recorded, edited and composed by Mary Hooper and Aram Zarikian for MSL’s new digital arts and heritage project.
The Readers:
These audio tracks were made for an immersive installation - Tressell's Children, in St. Andrews Mews in Hastings for Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2023. Recorded, edited and composed by Mary Hooper and Aram Zarikian for MSL’s new digital arts and heritage project.
"Tressell’s Children" is a new, ground-breaking project inspired by working-class heritage in Hastings. Volunteers were asked to read excerpts of transcriptions of oral histories recorded 20 years ago by residents of Hastings who experienced the social and economic conditions of the Victorian working class.

Robert Tressell's Children, working class heritage
"Tressell’s Children" is a new, ground-breaking project inspired by working-class heritage in Hastings. Volunteers were asked to read excerpts of transcriptions of oral histories recorded 20 years ago by residents of Hastings who experienced the social and economic conditions of the Victorian working class.
Robert Tressell's Children, working class heritage
The Readers, (in no particular order) - 
Kay Sandford, 
Mark Manners
Charlotte Snook 
Leigh Shine
Kay, Lucy Pappas
Glyn Carter
Rebecca Marshall
Sally-Ann Lycett
Nicky Urling Clarke
Ellie Gidlow
Piper Wren 
Oscar Chamberlin
Wilf Truscott
Jack Adamson
Ivy Broughton-Crabbe
Alice Snook
Omiros Marshall Maragokos
Konstantinos Marshall Maragokos
Amelie & Lottie Lingard

Tressell's Children

These audio tracks were made for an immersive installation - Tressell's Children, in St. Andrews Mews in Hastings for Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2023. Recorded, edited and composed by Mary Hooper and Aram Zarikian for MSL’s new digital arts and heritage project.
"Tressell’s Children" is a new, ground-breaking project inspired by working-class heritage in Hastings. Volunteers were asked to read excerpts of transcriptions of oral histories recorded 20 years ago by residents of Hastings who experienced the social and economic conditions of the Victorian working class.

Harriet Walter & The Rickards

Introduction music used on this clip is Charles Coborn - 'Two Lovely Black Eyes'. 

These audio tracks were made for an immersive installation - Tressell's Children, in St. Andrews Mews in Hastings for Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2023. Recorded, edited and composed by Mary Hooper and Aram Zarikian for MSL’s new digital arts and heritage project.
"Tressell’s Children" is a new, ground-breaking project inspired by working-class heritage in Hastings. Volunteers were asked to read excerpts of transcriptions of oral histories recorded 20 years ago by residents of Hastings who experienced the social and economic conditions of the Victorian working class.

Fred Ball

These audio tracks were made for an immersive installation - Tressell's Children, in St. Andrews Mews in Hastings for Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2023. Recorded, edited and composed by Mary Hooper and Aram Zarikian for MSL’s new digital arts and heritage project.
"Tressell’s Children" is a new, ground-breaking project inspired by working-class heritage in Hastings. Volunteers were asked to read excerpts of transcriptions of oral histories recorded 40 years ago by residents of Hastings who experienced the social and economic conditions of the Victorian working class.

Tressell Book Excerpts

One of a series of long-shelved oral histories collected in the 1980s re-interpreted by Mary Hooper, produced by Aram Zarikan.
The original audio tapes captured the stories of those who lived in the town of Hastings in the 20th century. 
These audio stories make links between the stories of life in the interwar period and the earlier work of Robert Tressell 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'.
Readers:
Glyn Carter, Omiros Marshall Maragokos, Oscar Chamberlain,
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the project is inspired by Robert Tressell’s groundbreaking 1914 book, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, which drew upon Tressell’s life as a painter and decorator in Hastings.

Mens Work and Lives, Inter-war Oral History

A reinterpretation in sound by Mary Hooper and Aram Zarikan of a series of long-shelved oral histories collected in the 1980s. The original tapes captured the stories of those who lived in the town in the 20th century. Tressell’s Children draws links between the stories of life in the interwar period and the earlier work of Robert Tressell in 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the project is inspired by Robert Tressell’s groundbreaking 1914 book, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, which drew upon Tressell’s life as a painter and decorator in Hastings.
This project builds on the momentum of MSL’s previous work before and during the pandemic, using archives as a springboard for new creative work, and harnessing the skills of local researchers and creative practitioners.

Men and Children's Working Lives

MSL’s project, History Detectives, was a series of events that ran over the summer of 2023 which made space to discover stories. We held workshops where you showed us objects that were important to you, and we scanned them together, preserving them digitally and linking them to your memories and tales.

Roller Skates

Plastic Wristband

Electric Scooter

Bracelet Chain

Creative writing produced by workshop participants in Creative Writing Workshop led by Michelle Porter and Project Managed by MSL Discover, Hastings. Part of the Tressell's Children project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, June 2023.

Fred Ball

MSL Hastings

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