Albert and Frances Mansbridge founded the Workers Education Association in 1903 with the objective of providing education to the labouring classes in an attempt to raise their quality of life. Over 100 years later the WEA organises from 7,500 to 10,000 non-vocational, low-cost courses a year for working and low-income people, though it is primarily open to whoever wants to learn. Christine Alford went to find out.
The fourth and last episode of Insane Leonards by author Richard Makin
The work of Robert Tressell, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, was celebrated at a one-day festival held at the University of Brighton Campus in Priory Square, Hastings on Saturday the 13th July 2013. Local author Leigh Kennedy went along to enjoy the event and review it for HOT.
The local Social Economy is growing but is under significant threat from large private-sector service providers such as SERCO and from large national charities with London headquarters and little or no connection with the local community. Ahead of the forthcoming gathering of local Social Economy Organisations at 5.30 on Monday 22 July (find out more here), HOT’s Richard Hull argues that we should be doing our best to support our local Social Economy.
Sean O’Shea reflects on Grace Lau’s coffin portraits which were included amongst a selection of works featured in the mixed media exhibition Telling Stories held at Hastings Museum back in Sept 2012.
Tonight (Thursday 25 April) Alexandra Benedict, a.k.a. AK Benedict, is opening the riart Grrrls series of events celebrating women authors at Claremont Studios in Kings Road, St Leonards. HOT’s Erica Smith asks AK about her latest book, The Beauty of Murder, published by Orion.
The third volume in the Pistoleros! trilogy by the anonymous Hastings-based author finds our hero Farquhar McHarg still in revolutionary Barcelona, now in the early years of the 1920s, as he continues the struggle, alongside fellow workers and anarchist comrades, against the forces of right-wing repression.
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