From 11am Saturday 17th July Housmans will be having a sale of the library of the late writer and political activist Mike Marqusee, who died of cancer in 2015 aged 61. We are extremely thankful to Mike’s partner Liz Davies for donating the books to us. Numbering approximately 1,000 titles, the books reflect Mike’s varied […]
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The Little Rebels Award celebrates children’s fiction which challenges stereotypes, promotes social justice and advocates for a more peaceful and fairer world. The titles on this year’s shortlist explore community empowerment, wastefulness and sustainability, consumerism, racism and untaught histories, domestic violence and the asylum and immigration system, the varied expressions of love, and why isolation […]
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 […]
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 […]