Richard Gott is a former Latin America correspondent and features editor for the Guardian. A specialist in Latin American affairs, his books include Cuba: A New History, Guerrilla Movements in Latin America, The Appeasers (with Martin Gilbert), Land Without Evil, Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution, and Britain’s Empire. Richard has very kindly donated over 1,000 books from his personal library, across […]
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We have the following meeting room available for hire.It seats 8 people comfortably, but 12 is very doable.Tables and chairs can be moved around as you might like. The cost for hiring the room is Up to 2 hours £25 3 hours £30 4 hours £40 5+ hours £50 There are kitchen and toilet facilities […]
The Black Feminist Bookshop presents Black Feminist Week – 12th July to 19th July – at @Housmans_Books. Join us for a week-long event (re)focusing on Black feminism in the UK. Activists, organisers, communities and allies will come together to highlight and celebrate Black feminist literature, thought, knowledge and history and to (re)imagine a Black British feminist […]
‘Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right’ by Liz Fekete (Verso) winner of the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2019 The award is given by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB), and in a change to previous years was judged solely by ARB bookshop staff and close supporters. Liz Fekete (left) receiving […]
It’s Pride month and to celebrate Housmans has partnered up with Lon-art to organise a special event on LGBTQ+ icon and author Radclyffe Hall. Expert Jana Funke from the University of Exeter will be at the shop on July 22 to discuss Hall’s controversial novel The Well of Loneliness. Jana will show why the novel […]
