BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231111T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231111T223000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20231005T160338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231111T130726Z UID:51764-1699729200-1699741800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer DESCRIPTION:Housmans is celebrating the paper-back release of the uncollected poetry and plays of the seminal American poet Jack Spicer\, edited\, and with a brilliant introduction\, by Daniel Katz. We are delighted to have Daniel with us in the shop to help celebrate Spicer’s work. \n\n\n\nBe Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form\, with his blistering intelligence\, painful double-edged wit\, and devastating will to truth everywhere on display. Most of the poetry here has never before been published\, but the volume also includes much out-of-print or hard to find work\, as well as Spicer’s three major plays\, which have never been collected. Here one finds major unfinished projects\, early and alternate versions of well-known Spicer poems\, shimmering stand-alone lyrics\, and intricate extended “books” and serial poems. In writings that range in date from his first days in Berkeley in 1945 through to the final months of his life\, 20 years later\, one sees the full development of Spicer as a writer. \n\n\n\nDaniel will begin the evening by speaking about the project and then reading a few of his favorite poems from the book. This will be followed by a poetry reading from some contemporary ‘Martian poets’\, influenced by Spicer’s work. These are: Mau Baiocco\, Al Anderson\, Sam Weselowski\, Simon Smith\, Paige Murphy\, Nell Osborne\, Cat Chong\, JD Howse\, Francis Jones and Dom Hale. There will be two intervals of 15 minutes each. \n\n\n\nThis event is free\, but please RSVP. \n\n\n\nBYOB! ALL WELCOME! See you there! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-be-brave-to-things-the-uncollected-poetry-and-plays-of-jack-spicer/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Spicer-BeBrave-C-300-X.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T223000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20230930T154217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T161728Z UID:51716-1698433200-1698445800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: We Hear Only Ourselves by Bill Cashmore DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome Bill Cashmore to Housmans to celebrate the publication of her exciting new book ‘We Hear Only Ourselves’. As Étienne Balibar says\, this book is a ‘beautiful breakthrough by enormously gifted young philosopher.’ We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined\, what is the place of utopia today? The answer\, Cashmore argues\, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear Only Ourselves seeks a concept of utopia which is strengthened\, not undermined\, by its contradictions. From the dialectics of the Frankfurt School to the energetics of resistance in the writings of the Black Panthers\, this book draws on a wide range of thought to offer a new concept of utopia\, one adequate for our present moment. \n\n\n\nBill will be in conversation with Matt Colquhoun\, followed by an open discussion. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-we-hear-only-ourselves-by-bill-cashmore/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/F7ImCNWW8AARXHq-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220629T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220629T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20220516T143047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T143453Z UID:41297-1656529200-1656534600@housmans.com SUMMARY:High Desert with Andre Naffis-Sahely DESCRIPTION:High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare\, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast’s wildfire epidemic\, Naffis-Sahely’s reflections on class\, race\, and nationalism chart the region’s hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the recent pandemic. The poems in High Desert also revel in their rootlessness\, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the US\, travelling from Venice and Florence to Chittagong and St Petersburg\, tackling our turbulent times and the depths of its problems in searing\, extraordinary poems of witness and vision. \n\n\n\nHigh Desert is André Naffis-Sahely’s second collection\, following his debut The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin Books\, 2017)\, a gathering of portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: travellers\, labourers\, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. It includes poems from his recent pamphlet The Other Side of Nowhere (Rough Trade Books\, 2019). All his collections present poetry as reportage\, as much an act of memory as of sinuous\, clear-eyed vision. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAndré Naffis-Sahely is a poet\, editor and translator\, and editor of Poetry London. He is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Manchester Writing School in the UK\, and a Lecturer at University of California\, Davis\, in the US. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/high-desert-with-andre-naffis-sahely/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/60e715af36a96.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220621T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220621T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20220607T132645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T132647Z UID:41773-1655838000-1655843400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Doreen Massey: Selected Political Writings DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Lawrence Wishart Books\n\n\n\nDoreen Massey was one of the most influential human geographers of the post-war period. A key feminist and socialist thinker\, she brought geographical inequality to the fore of left politics. Through her activism\, she combined a focus on class with a prescient awareness of its intersections with gender\, race and sexuality.This book is a collection of Doreen Massey’s essential political writings\, from reflections on support groups during the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike to assessments of the Sandinistas’ spatial policies and ownership campaigns relating to Liverpool Football Club. It gives a vivid sense of Massey’s dynamic style as a left public intellectual whose work impacted major political initiatives\, and introduces her important ‘politics of place’ to a new generation of activists. \n\n\n\nDoreen Massey was a pioneering radical geographer\, theorist and activist\, whose work challenged how we understand space\, place and power. This collection of her writings brings together articles on social justice and previously un-digitised essays\, for a fresh insight into Massey’s political commitments. It aims to give geographers a better sense of her political commitments while introducing her theory of location to a new generation of social justice activists. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDavid Featherstone is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Resistance\, Space and Political Identities: the Making of Counter-Global Networks and Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism. He is a member of the editorial collectives of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography and Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. He holds a PhD from the Open University. \n\n\n\nDiarmaid Kelliher is a postdoctoral researcher and trade unionist at the University of Glasgow. His book\, Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike was published by Routledge in May 2021. \n\n\n\nHilary Wainwright is co-editor of Red Pepper and research director of the New Politics Project of the Transnational Institute\, Amsterdam. Her most recent books include Public Service Reform: But Not As We Know It! (Compass/UNISON) and Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Seagull). \n\n\n\nDr Ulises Moreno-Tabarez is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. He is also a Research Associate for LSE London and Associated Academic at the Latin American and Caribbean Centre. He serves as a core Editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal City: Analysis of Urban Change\, Theory\, Action. He holds a PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies from the LSE. \n\n\n\nAmelia Horgan is a writer\, researcher and editor from London. She is currently a PhD candidate on work at the University of Essex’s School of Philosophy and Art History. Her first book\, Lost in Work (Pluto Press) came out in June 2021. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/doreen-massey-selected-political-writings/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LW_books_series_ops_2-pages-7_page-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20211208T134500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T134328Z UID:38187-1643223600-1643229000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Uncontrollable Women: Radicals\, Reformers and Revolutionaries\, with Nan Sloane [online event] DESCRIPTION:Author Nan Sloane charts the history of forgotten women revolutionaries between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and 1832. \n\n\n\nWe’re pleased to welcome author Nan Sloane to virtual Housmans for the book launch of Uncontrollable Women: Radicals\, Reformers and Revolutionaries. \n\n\n\nUncontrollable Women is a history of radical\, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit. \n\n\n\nAt a time when women were supposed to leave politics to men they spoke\, wrote\, marched\, organised\, asked questions\, challenged power structures\, sometimes went to prison and even died. History has not usually been kind to them\, and they have frequently been pushed into asides or footnotes\, dismissed as secondary\, or spoken over\, for\, or through by men and sometimes other women. These are their stories. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nNan Sloane is an author\, speaker and trainer with an interest in the role of women in the public space\, particularly in politics and the Labour Party. Her previous books include The Women In the Room: Labour’s Forgotten History (2018)\, In Our Own Words: A Dictionary of Women’s Political Quotations (2016)\, and A Great Act of Justice: The Flapper Election and After (2009). \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation link to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Uncontrollable Women then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/uncontrollable-women-radicals-reformers-and-revolutionaries-with-nan-sloane-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/nan-sloane-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20211022T130800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211118T144009Z UID:36550-1637175600-1637181000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s\, with Sheila Rowbotham [online event] DESCRIPTION:In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement\, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings\, as well as daily life. \n\n\n\nAfter addressing the first British Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College\, Oxford in 1970\, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise\, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership. \n\n\n\nWritten with generosity and humour Daring to Hope recreates grassroots networks\, communal houses and squats\, bringing alive a shared impetus to organise collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. It conveys the shifts occurring in politics and society through kernels of personal experience. The result is a book about liberation in the widest sense. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nSue O’Sullivan joined the Tufnell Park women’s liberation small group.  At the end of February 1970\, when 8 1/2 months pregnant\, she attended the Ruskin conference in Oxford with her then husband and two-year-old toddler. Fifty years + later she staggers on\, still a feminist\, still a socialist – the same and very different – personally and politically.   Sue has been involved in a number of feminist publishing projects over the years including the WLM’s early Shrew\, then on to Red Rag\, Spare Rib\, Feminist Review\, and ICW News (International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS). Most recently she participated in creating the Hackney HOWLERS (History of Women’s Liberation) Writing Women into History booklet.  She was also a dedicated member of the Sheba Feminist Publisher Collective in the 80s  and has edited\, co-edited\, and written a number of books and pamphlets.  Through it all (or much of it) she’s been active in lesbian feminist\, anti-racist\, and women’s health and sexual politics.  \n\n\n\nSheila Rowbotham who helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain\, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women\, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness\, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her other works include Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century; the biography Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love\, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography\, and Rebel Crossings: New Women\, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States. Verso have also reissued her memoir Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties\, as part of the Feminist Classic series. Her latest book is Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. Her poetry and two plays have been published and she has written for newspapers and journals in Britain\, the US\, Italy\, Brazil\, Turkey\, Sweden and Sri Lanka. She lives in Bristol. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Ticketholders will also be able to access the event via the eventbrite page. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Daring to Hope then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP or BUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/daring-to-hope-my-life-in-the-1970s-with-sheila-rowbotham-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sheila.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20211007T143851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T150323Z UID:35651-1636570800-1636576200@housmans.com SUMMARY:VETERANHOOD\, with Joe Glenton in conversation with Matt Kennard [online event] DESCRIPTION:The military veteran is claimed by all sides. Conservatives\, liberals and socialists all want to speak about and for ex-servicemen\, yet far-right demonstrations are dotted with berets and medals and ex-military men have become celebrities of the reactionary manosphere. \n\n\n\nSo who are Britain’s ex-servicemen? What do they want? What are their politics? What are the issues which animate them? Are they just irredeemable fascists by dint of their service to Empire? Or is there a radical political potential waiting to be unlocked? \n\n\n\nFormer soldier Joe Glenton takes us on a guided tour through ex-forces life at the heart of a dead empire as he attempts to demystify military culture\, rescue the veteran from his captors\, and discover if a more optimistic\, humanist mode of veteranhood can be recovered from the ruins. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nJoe Glenton is a journalist\, film-maker and award-winning author. He was a British soldier from 2004 to 2010\, serving in Afghanistan. He has written on defence\, war and the military for Declassified UK\, The Independent\, The Guardian\, VICE and others. \n\n\n\nMatt Kennard is head of investigations at Declassified UK and the author of Irregular Army and The Racket and has previously written for New Statesman\, The Guardian\, the Financial Times\, openDemocracy and The Intercept. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Ticketholders will also be able to access the event via the eventbrite page. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Veteranhood then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP OR BUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/veteranhood-with-joe-glenton-and-matt-kennard-in-conversation-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/veteranhood.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20210806T113902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210806T154144Z UID:34649-1632942000-1632947400@housmans.com SUMMARY:No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the Land in Wartime Britain\, with Ken Worpole [online event] DESCRIPTION:Social historian Ken Worpole uncovers the lost story of Frating Hall Farm\, documenting the passionate religious and political ideals of this back-to-the-land community in wartime and postwar Britain. \n\n\n\nOn ‘Lady Day’\, March 1943 a group of Christian pacifists took possession of a vacant farm in Frating\, a hamlet on the Essex Tendring Peninsula. There they established a working community\, inspired by their association with The Adelphi journal\, where D.H.Lawrence\, John Middleton Murry\, Vera Brittain\, Iris Murdoch\, George Orwell and others shared ideas for the future with European religious radicals such as Nikolai Berdyaev\, Martin Buber and Simone Weil. \n\n\n\nFrating Hall Farm provided a settlement and livelihood for individuals and families (as well as a temporary sanctuary for refugees and prisoners-of-war)\, and over time became a successful arable and livestock land-holding of more than 300 acres. \n\n\n\nWe are pleased to have Ken Worpole at virtual Housmans to discuss the lost story of Frating Hall Farm\, documented in his most recent publication\, No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen\, through the reminiscences of those who grew up on the farm\, together with photographs\, letters and organisational records\, never before seen or published. \n\n\n\nKen Worpole will be in conversation with Anne Johnson. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nKen Worpole is the author of books on architecture\, landscape and social history from a radical perspective. The Independent described him as ‘One of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape\,’ and the New Statesman wrote of his new book\, ‘Worpole is a literary original\, a social and architectural historian whose books combine the Orwellian ideal of common decency with understated erudition.’  \n\n\n\nLike Ken\, Anne Johnson grew up on Canvey Island and both were involved in community publishing in London in the 1970s. A trained English teacher\, Anne has run the Everyday Magic programme in primary schools since 2002\, as well as developing children’s programmes for the City of London Festival\, Imagine Children’s Literature Festival at the South Bank. She has co-written a book with fellow storyteller\, Sef Townsend: ‘London Folk Tales for Children published by The History Press and ‘London’s River Tales for Children’\, which will be out in January 2022. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/no-matter-how-many-skies-have-fallen-back-to-the-land-in-wartime-england-with-ken-worpole-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ken-worpole-bk-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20210806T110846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210806T110848Z UID:34658-1632337200-1632342600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator\, with Darryl Cunningham [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join us for the online launch of acclaimed graphic novelist Darryl Cunningham’s biography of Vladimir Putin. \n\n\n\nMaster manipulator or gangster? The malign thrust of Putin’s domestic and foreign policy is exposed in Cunningham’s latest page-turning biography including his early life\, political career\, the wars in Chechnya\, Crimea and the Ukraine\, the crackdown on human rights\, Brexit\, Trump—and the poisonings. \n\n\n\nCunningham shows how the West and its leaders have been culpable in aiding Putin’s rise – Obama being a particular example. By putting all these events into a timeline\, Cunningham aims to show that Putin is opportunistic rather than the master manipulator people make him out to be: ‘He’s essentially a gangster and not a particularly smart one. We need to demythologise Putin if we are to beat him.’ \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDarryl Cunningham is the award-winning author of Psychiatric Tales\, Science Tales\, Supercrash (a New York Times bestseller)\, Graphic Science and Billionaires\, which won the Best Graphic Nonfiction category in the Broken Frontier Awards 2019. Darryl lives in Wakefield\, West Yorkshire. \n\n\n\nMore speakers tba \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Putin’s Russia then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/putins-russia-the-rise-of-a-dictator-with-darryl-cunningham-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Putins-Russia-cover-RGB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210909T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210909T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20210804T160253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210809T101854Z UID:36364-1631214000-1631219400@housmans.com SUMMARY:How to Stop Fascism: Paul Mason in conversation with Ewa Majewska [online event] DESCRIPTION:History shows us the conditions that breed fascism\, and how it can be successfully overcome. But it is up to us in the present to challenge it. What are we going to do about it? \n\n\n\nWe are pleased to welcome Paul Mason to virtual Housmans to discuss his latest publication\, How to Stop Fascism. Paul will be in conversation with Ewa Majewska\, feminist philosopher\, activist and author of Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common. \n\n\n\nThe far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi’s India to Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Erdogan’s Turkey\, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again – and we need to find a better way to fight it. \n\n\n\nBoth a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism\, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomenon\, How to Stop Fascism offers a radical\, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n(c) Juergen Bauer\n\n\n\nPaul Mason is an award-winning journalist\, broadcaster\, and film-maker. Previously economics editor of BBC Newsnight and Channel 4 News\, his books include Clear Bright Future\, PostCapitalism\, a Sunday Times top ten bestseller\, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere; Live Working or Die Fighting; and Rare Earth: A Novel. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ewa Majewska is a feminist philosopher and activist\, living in Warsaw. She taught at the University of Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków\, Poland\, she was also a visiting scholar at the University of California\, Berkeley; ICI Berlin and IWM in Vienna. She published one book in English\, Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common\, with Verso\, and four books in Polish\, as well as 50 articles and essays\, in journals\, magazines and collected volumes\, including: e-flux\, Signs\, Third Text\, Journal of Utopian Studies and Jacobin. Her current research is in Hegel’s philosophy\, focusing on the dialectics and the weak; feminist critical theory and antifascist cultures. \n\n\n\nYou can buy a copy of Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common here. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of How to Stop Fascism (hardback) then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/how-to-stop-fascism-paul-mason-in-conversation-with-ewa-majewska-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/how-to-stop-fascism-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210907T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210907T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20210806T143259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210811T104258Z UID:34413-1631041200-1631046600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Ill Feelings: Stories of Unexplained Illness\, with Alice Hattrick in conversation with Abi Palmer [online event] DESCRIPTION:A moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness. \n\n\n\nIn 1995 Alice’s mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME\, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother’s and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later.  \n\n\n\nIll Feelings blends memoir\, medical history\, biography and literary non-fiction to uncover both of their case histories\, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. \n\n\n\nTheir cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James\, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson\, John Ruskin’s lost love Rose la Touche\, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. \n\n\n\nSuffused with a generative\, transcendent rage\, Alice Hattrick’s genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness. Alice will be joined in conversation with Abi Palmer\, author of Santatorium. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAlice Hattrick (c) Jacques Testard\n\n\n\nAlice Hattrick‘s criticism and interviews have appeared in publications such as frieze magazine\, ArtReview and The White Review. Alice’s work has most recently been included in Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art: HEALTH (ed. Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz\, 2020) and Mine Searching Yours (Forma\, 2020). They are the co-producer of Access Docs for Artists\, a resource for disabled and/or chronically ill artists\, curators and writers\, made in collaboration with artists Leah Clements and Lizzy Rose. In 2016\, they were shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize. Ill Feelings is their first book. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbi Palmer (c) Faith Aylward and Mia Maxwell\n\n\n\nAbi Palmer is an writer\, artist and filmmaker. Her work often uses multisensory interaction and multiple forms. Notable artworks Crip Casino – an interactive gambling arcade parodying the wellness industry and institutionalised spaces – has been exhibited at Tate Modern\, Somerset House and Wellcome Collection. Her debut book Sanatorium (Penned in the Margins\, 2020) is a fragmented memoir\, jumping between luxury thermal pool\, and blue inflatable bathtub. It was shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize. In 2020 she was awarded an Artangel ‘Thinking Time’ Grant to address the current pandemic. Her current work explores themes of access\, isolation and the urgency of climate change\, through attempting to capture\, distil and convey the entire outside world into small ritualistic performances and sculpture for her indoor cats.www.abipalmer.com \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Ill Feelings then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/ill-feelings-stories-of-unexplained-illness-with-alice-hattrick-in-conversation-with-abi-palmer-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ill-feelings-proper-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210602T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210602T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20210517T164705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210603T092633Z UID:31573-1622660400-1622665800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Left Populism in Europe: Lessons From Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos - Marina Prentoulis in conversation with Kate Hudson [online event] DESCRIPTION:What we can do to harness the power of broad-based\, popular left politics? \n\n\n\nWe are really pleased to welcome Marina Prentoulis to virtual Housmans to discuss her new book with Pluto Press\, Left Populism in Europe: Lessons From Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos. Marina will be in conversation with Kate Hudson\, the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. \n\n\n\n (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)\n\n\n\nSyriza in Greece and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in Britain have both failed to introduce socialism in their countries\, while Podemos has had better fortune in Spain and is now in government with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party. \n\n\n\nIn this online event\, Marina and Kate will explore left populism across grassroots\, national and European levels. They will consider how each party operates\, the roots of each movement’s base\, the forms of party organisation\, and the particular national contexts. \n\n\n\nRecommended for anyone wanting to understand and move forward positively in a bleak time for the left in Europe. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nMarina Prentoulis is Associate Professor in Politics and Media at the University of East Anglia. She has been the UK spokesperson of Syriza and has given numerous interviews on British and International media including BBC’s Newsnight and the Andrew Marr Show as well as CNN and Sky News. \n\n\n\nKate Hudson is active in the European Left Party\, particularly its working groups on Peace and on Fighting the Far Right. Formerly an academic working in this field she has written extensively on this issue\, including European Communism since 1989 (Macmillan\, 200) and The New European Left (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2012). She is also General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/left-populism-in-europe-lessons-from-jeremy-corbyn-to-podemos-marina-prentoulis-in-conversation-with-kate-hudson-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Marina.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210527T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210527T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20210408T134246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T165152Z UID:29492-1622142000-1622147400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Paint Your Town Red - Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones in conversation with Grace Blakeley DESCRIPTION:Housmans is pleased to welcome Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones to discuss Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too\, the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall.  \n\n\n\nAcross the world\, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic\, less exploitative\, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience of Matthew Brown\, the driving-force behind the Preston Model. Exploring how different communities around the world are applying similar principles to take back control\, Paint Your Town Red gives us a real blueprint for the wholesale transformation of society.  \n\n\n\n“Paint Your Town Red is a timely reminder that despite years of austerity and neoliberalism there are now genuine economic alternatives emerging in many towns\, cities and regions across the UK.” — John McDonnell\, former Shadow Chancellor \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nMatthew Brown is Labour’s leader of Preston City Council and a Senior Fellow for the Democracy Collaborative\, tasked also with promoting Community Wealth Building across the UK and abroad.Rhian E. Jones is a writer\, historian and author of four books on politics and popular culture. She is an editor at Red Pepper. \n\n\n\nGrace Blakeley is staff writer at Tribune magazine and the author of Stolen and The Corona Crash. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/paint-your-town-red-matthew-brown-and-rhian-e-jones-in-conversation-with-grace-blakeley/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Paint-your-town.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20210331T144514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T172820Z UID:28924-1622055600-1622061000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Not Quite Right for Us: Celebrating flipped eye and Speaking Volumes\, with Sharmilla Beezmohun and Colin Grant DESCRIPTION:Housmans is very proud to announce a joint event with flipped eye and Speaking Volumes to celebrate the publication of Not Quite Right for Us\, an anthology featuring 40 international voices talking about outsider-ness. \n\n\n\nThis event is also part of flipped eyes’s 20th anniversary celebrations. Not Quite Right for Us is published in collaboration with Speaking Volumes\, who are also celebrating their 10th anniversary this year. \n\n\n\nSpanning eight thematic areas (childhood\, family\, friends\, work\, travel\, love\, yesterday/today and today/tomorrow)\, the anthology features a huge breadth of contributions\, from autobiographical essays to a short story translated from Bengali\, from fictional email exchanges between authors and editors\, to extracts from theatrical plays and mythological poems. \n\n\n\nIn Not Quite Right for Us new and established writers evoke their own experiences of outsiderness—and defiance against it. Contributors include Kerry Hudson\, Xiaolu Guo\, Aminatta Forna\, Colin Grant\, Nick Makoha\, Byron Vincent\, Rishi Dastidar\, Johny Pitts and Rafeef Ziadah and a foreword by Linton Kwesi Johnson. \n\n\n\nSharmilla Beezmohun\, co-founder of Speaking Volumes and editor of Not Quite Right for Us\, will be in conversation with author and contributor to the anthology Colin Grant. The conversation will be chaired by Mitch Albert\, director of fiction and non-fiction for flipped eye. \n\n\n\nAbout flipped eye \n\n\n\nWinning global acclaim for being a champion of compelling work\, flipped eye publishing has been publishing affordable culture from the margins of British society since 2001. As an incubator for talent\, flipped eye focuses on cultivating potential\, as opposed to producing rapid output\, with publications a manifestation of long-term dialogue between editors and authors over several years. Award-winning authors who were discovered\, developed or launched by flipped eye include Roger Robinson\, Warsan Shire\, Inua Ellams\, Malika Booker\, Miriam Nash\, Nick Makoha and more. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharmilla Beezmohun is the co-founder of Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions in 2010. Previous work includes eleven years as Deputy Editor of Wasafiri\, the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing\, plus stints at Virago and Heinemann’s African and Caribbean Writers Series among others. She edited Continental Shifts\, Shifts in Perception: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe (2016) and co-edited A Meeting of the Continents: The International Book Fair of Black Radical and Third World Books (2005). She is a Trustee of Carcanet Publishers\, Modern Poetry in Translation magazine and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColin Grant is a non-fiction writer\, historian and broadcaster. His books include: Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation\, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week (2019); A Smell of Burning\, a history of epilepsy and Sunday Times Book of the Year (2016); the memoir Bageye at the Wheel\, shortlisted for the Pen/Ackerley Prize (2013). Grant has written and directed several BBC drama documentaries including A Fountain of Tears: The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca; and A History of the N Word. He is the director of the new platform WritersMosaic\, launching in April 2021. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/not-quite-right-for-us-celebrating-flipped-eye-and-speaking-volumes-with-sharmilla-beezmohun-and-colin-grant/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Flipped.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210414T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210414T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20210331T132511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210414T151103Z UID:32609-1618426800-1618432200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: System Crash - An activist guide to making revolution\, with Neil Faulkner and Simon Hannah [online event] DESCRIPTION:Pandemic\, climate crisis\, endless war\, mega-slums\, police repression\, creeping fascism\, economic stagnation: these shape our world. This book provides hope for an alternative future. \n\n\n\nWe’re really pleased at Housmans to celebrate the launch of the latest offering from Resistance Books. \n\n\n\nSystem Crash is an activist guide to making revolution\, a call to arms. Written by Neil Faulkner\, Phil Hearse\, Nina Fortune\, Rowan Fortune and Simon Hannah\, System Crash argues that revolution – ending the rule of capital and the state – has become an existential necessity. \n\n\n\nCapitalism came into the world\, Marx wrote\, ‘dripping from head to toe\, from every pore\, with blood and dirt’. Now\, the ageing system is putrescent and gangrenous. But the last decade has seen explosions of revolt from below\, firecracking across the globe\, toppling dictators\, resisting austerity\, protesting racism\, defending abortion rights\, fighting for democracy. Here is the embryo of an alternative future. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nNeil Faulkner is a historian and political activist in Anti*Capitalist Resistance. His books include Rome: empire of the eagles\, A Radical History of the World\, A People’s History of the Russian Revolution\, and Creeping Fascism: what it is and how to fight it. He is currently working on A People’s History of the Spanish Civil War.  \n\n\n\nSimon Hannah is a socialist and trade union activist. He is the author of A Party with Socialists in it: a history of the Labour Left\, Can’t Pay – Won’t Pay: the fight to stop the Poll Tax\, and Radical Lambeth. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBook plus event entry £10\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-system-crash-an-activist-guide-to-making-revolution-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SC-front-cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20210225T170248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T191035Z UID:31224-1616698800-1616704200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Disturbing the Body\, with Abi Hynes and Irenosen Okojie DESCRIPTION:Three feminist bookshops have joined forces with Boudicca Press to celebrate ​Disturbing The Body​\, a subversive collection of speculative memoir about misbehaving bodies. \n\n\n\nDisturbing The Body Body ​will launch across three nights\, with​ Lighthouse\, Five Leaves ​and Housmans​ bookshops each hosting a new pairing of writers. \n\n\n\nThe ambitious three-part launch reflects the creativity and character of radical bookshops and the scope of this phenomenal anthology. Taking readers on a bookish journey the length of the country\, it exemplifies theways indies have rallied for each other and for independent presses during the pandemic. \n\n\n\nThe three-part launch picks out common threads from the book to give you the following: \n\n\n\n23rd March with Lighthouse (Edinburgh): Chikọdili Emelumadu and Verity Holloway focus on using genre (horror) to explore women’s bodily experiences. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n24th with Five Leaves (Nottingham): Louise Kenward and Laura Elliott\, on storytelling that explores health\, medicine and disability. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n25th Housmans (London): Irenosen Okojie and Abi Hynes draw on their stories\, the uncanny and fantastical\, to explore feminism and body politics. For tickets for this event\, please see below. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAbi Hynes is a drama and fiction writer based in Manchester. Her plays have been staged in venues across the UK\, and she is currently working on original audio drama and TV projects. Her short stories have been widely published\, most recently in Black Static\, Lucent Dreaming and Neon Magazine\, and she was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Novella-in-Flash Award in 2018. She won the Cambridge Short Story Prize in 2020.Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Observer\, The Guardian\, the BBC and the Huffington Post\, amongst other publications. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular\, published by Jacaranda Books\, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize\, the Jhalak Prize\, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new collection of stories\, Nudibranch published by Little Brown’s Dialogue Books\, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for Fiction for her story\, ‘Grace Jones’. http://www.irenosenokojie.com Twitter: @IrenosenOkojieAbout Boudicca PressBoudicca Press is an independent publisher who celebrates the strength\, courage and literary talents of women. They publish weird\, literary and relationship fiction by women in the UK. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-disturbing-the-body-with-abi-hynes-and-irenosen-okojie/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Feminist event,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DisturbingThe-BodyBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20201219T151141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210323T115932Z UID:27094-1610650800-1610656200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch - Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher with Matt Colquhoun and James Butler [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join Matt Colquhoun and James Butler as they examine the crucial legacy of Mark Fisher\, to celebrate the publication of Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher\, edited by Colquhoun.\n\nWhen we lost Mark Fisher in 2017\, we lost one of our most exciting and vital critics of contemporary politics and culture. Providing lucid and excoriating critiques on subjects ranging from Dido to Drake; The Fall to James Blake; Breaking Bad to Benefits Street\, he was moved by the emancipatory possibilities of popular culture. In publishing\, he worked to spread radical ideas and provide a generation of new writers with a platform. Blogging as ‘k-punk’\, he analysed everyday experiences of precarity\, depression\, and cultural malaise as profoundly political — and therefore changeable. Mark tirelessly sought alternatives to the world that we’ve been given\, away from the destructive individualism of the present and towards a practical communitarian future.\n\nFor the first time\, Postcapitalist Desire reveals Mark Fisher in his element — the classroom — outlining a project that Fisher’s death left so bittersweetly unfinished.\n\nBeginning with that most fundamental of questions — “Do we really want what we say we want?” — Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism\, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past\, present\, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking\, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness\, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.\n\nFor Fisher\, this process of consciousness raising was always\, fundamentally\, psychedelic — just not in the way that we might think…\n\nSpeakers\n\nMatt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull\, East Yorkshire. He is the author of Egress: On Mourning\, Melancholy and Mark Fisher and blogs at xenogothic.com.\n\nJames Butler is the co-founded Novara Media and presents Novara FM on Resonance 104.4\, as well as being a contributor to the LRB and others.\n\nPlease read:\n\nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com with a UK address. Postcapitalist Desire is published on 12 Jan 2021.\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/postcapitalist-desire-the-final-lectures-of-mark-fisher-with-matt-colquhoun-and-james-butler/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/post-cap.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201111T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201111T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120317 CREATED:20201019T152300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T151229Z UID:15017-1605121200-1605126600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: "The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State" with Robb Johnson and Louise Regan DESCRIPTION:COVID has dramatically confirmed that the current condition of state education is not fit for purpose. Join educators and organizers Robb Johnson and Louise Regan to discuss how 30 years of “education reform” have created a dysfunctional mass education system that ruthlessly prioritises the agenda of the neo-liberal state over the needs of children. Robb Johnson’s book The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State is part memoir and polemic and a celebration of children’s innate desire to learn\, share\, cooperate\, and play\, as well as a critique of bureaucratic interference. The book lays out how to create democratic spaces where kids can grow\, not up\, not old\, but as individuals. \nAbout The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State \nThere once was a time when teachers and communities were able to exercise democratic control over their schools. Now that power has been taken away\, both centralised and privatised\, under the guise of “reform.” There is a forgotten history of the time before reform\, and within it a bright horizon is visible\, reachable only if educators and society at large can learn the lessons of the past. \nRobb Johnson entered the classroom as a new teacher in the 1980s and has spent a lifetime alongside his pupils encouraging both creativity and a healthy distrust of authority. Johnson details how we ended up with the contemporary mass education systems and why they continually fail to give children what they need. Combining practical experience as a teacher with detailed pedagogical knowledge\, and a characteristic playful style\, Johnson is both court chronicler and jester\, imparting information and creatively admonishing the self-important figureheads of the reform agenda. \nThis book considers how schools and education relate to the wider society in which they are located and how they relate to the particular needs and abilities of the people who experience them. It shows that schools and education are contested spaces that need to be reclaimed from the state\, and turned into places where people can grow\, not up\, not old\, but as individuals. It offers alternative ways of running classrooms\, schools\, and perhaps even society. \nPraise: \n“I have rarely seen a book that is so embedded in what education is for and that then directs the reader to how to pursue the goals\, in practice and at all levels of school infrastructure so that the way schools are structured adds to the goodness of society.”\n—Marcelo Staricoff\, author of Start Thinking\, fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching\, and former headteacher \n“The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State by Robb Johnson shows the stark reality of the current situation for education. Education is at a crossroads\, and this book comes at an important time raising awareness and exposing the flaws in our current system. Read this\, and then join the campaign to fight for a fairer\, fully funded\, comprehensive education system!”\n—Louise Regan\, ex-president of National Education Union (UK) \n“The goals of the school systems in most countries have generally not had nothing to do with producing happy\, creative\, self-confident\, autonomous children who will grow up to become happy\, creative\, self-confident\, autonomous adults. But since schooling become mandatory in industrialized societies like the UK and the US\, the schools have been an ideological battleground between those who want to produce obedient workers and soldiers\, and those\, like Robb Johnson\, who would prefer to see a liberated humanity consisting of whole people\, who are treated as such from birth\, by their parents\, by the schools\, and all other social\, political\, and economic institutions. This book is a brilliant crash course in the roots of the problem\, the devastation that has been done since the post-Thatcher/Reagan austerity budgets and a return to Victorian (‘family‘) values\, and how we might address all of these complex challenges. And it is as captivating a read as any good memoir\, because that’s exactly what it is. Robb Johnson lived through\, and taught through\, the backlash\, working as a school teacher from 1980 until very recently.”\n—David Rovics\, musician and author of Sing for Your Supper: A DIY Guide to Playing Music\, Writing Songs\, and Booking Your Own Gigs \nAbout the Speakers: \nRobb Johnson was born in 1955\, studied English lit at Sussex University\, trained as a teacher\, and then did an MA in English literature at Manchester University. He has worked as a classroom teacher by day and a songwriter by night since 1980. As a songwriter\, he has received widespread critical acclaim. Robb has written songbooks; edited a book of stories\, Journeys Down Denbigh Road\, for use with young children in school assemblies; edited A Navigator’s Tale\, a book collecting his father’s World War II memoir and poetry; and contributed regularly to the music magazine RNR. \nLouise Regan is the ex-president of National Education Union (UK). \nPlease note that this event will be held online via Zoom. You will be emailed a Zoom invitation on the day of the event.  \n**Please email the shop if you are unable to pay the entry price** \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-the-peoples-republic-of-neverland-the-child-versus-the-state-with-robb-johnson-and-louise-regan/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-Peoples-Republic-of-Neverland-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200406T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200406T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20200316T105047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T170135Z UID:11997-1586199600-1586205000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: On Relationships ***POSTPONED*** DESCRIPTION:  \nRelationships are important. Whether they are with others or ourselves\, they shape us\, they move us\, they empower us and they break our hearts. 3 of Cups Press launches their latest anthology\, On Relationships\, a collection of prose\, poetry and art which explores the importance and power of all relationships. \nJoin us on the 6 of April to launch On Relationships with readings from Vanessa Pelz-Sharpe\, Melissa Gitari and Isha Karki. \n\n\nFounded in 2017\, 3 of Cups Press is a small press\, focusing on inclusive publishing. We share a vision for a more equal\, more peaceful\, more inclusive world and we are dedicated to providing a platform for voices otherwise unheard in the mainstream. We are a team of women and non-binary folk\, and are disability-led. \nOur first project is a series of anthologies\, starting with On Anxiety\, published in January 2018\, and On Bodies\, published in October 2018. Our third\, On Relationships\, published February 2020. These anthologies provide a platform for writers and artists and a starting point on how to tackle issues such as mental health\, our relationships with our bodies\, political activism and more. \nWe believe that art and literature can be activism. In pursuit of a more fair\, more equal world\, all of our contributors are paid for their work. \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-on-relationships/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ONRELATION.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200306T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200306T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20200215T170532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200215T170532Z UID:11017-1583521200-1583526600@housmans.com SUMMARY:'A Nuclear Refrain: emotion\, empire and the democratic potential of protest' with Kelvin Mason\, Philip Johnstone and Lotte Reimer DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved closer than ever to global destruction: humanity has just 100 seconds left to take action. While climate change and cyber-warfare grab more headlines\, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists forcibly reminded us that the nuclear arms race is also running out of control. \nA Nuclear Refrain enlivens the discourse on nuclear deterrence\, mutually assured destruction (MAD) and Trident replacement. The debate on nuclear weapons in the UK is entrenched: perpetual strategic\, moral and economic arguments clash like bloodied heads banging against brick walls. But how is everyday life emotionally shaped by nuclear weapons\, the specter and menace of the mushroom cloud? Why\, deep down\, is the UK determined to remain one of only a handful of official nuclear weapons states? What might politics look like if we stepped out of the cold\, dark shadow of nuclear deterrence? \nA Nuclear Refrain was conceived through scholar-activist participation in a Trident Ploughshares campaign of direct action against nuclear weapons in the UK. During an academic seminar blockade at AWE Burghfield in 2017\, the authors were viscerally struck by the emotional\, political and cultural constraints imposed by living in a nuclear weapons state. Honouring the art and social justice commitment of Charles Dickens\, and casting a fresh light on the issues for informed readers as well as newcomers to the MAD world\, A Nuclear Refrain is presented in the dramaticform of A Christmas Carol. Pro-Trident MP the Right Honourable Roger C. Bezeeneos is confronted by the atomic ghosts of the past\, present and future on a tempestuous journey that will change his mind and all of our lives forever. Or will it? \nBook launch with\nKelvin Mason\, para-academic\nPhilip Johnstone\, University of Sussex\nLotte Reimer\, Campaign Choirs Network \nFREE ENTRY \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/a-nuclear-refrain-emotion-empire-and-the-democratic-potential-of-protest-with-kelvin-mason-philip-johnstone-and-lotte-reimer/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/191002nuclearrefrain-cover-web-front.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200228T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200228T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20200224T182220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T182220Z UID:11389-1582916400-1582921800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Stormlight Book Launch with Jan Woolf DESCRIPTION:Riversmeet Press invites you to the Housmans launch of Stormlight by Jan Woolf \nStories – short and long- setting ordinary people against big themes; love\, war\, loss\, contemporary politics and the search for fulfilment. Like the author’s first collection Fugues on a Funny Bone they are funny\, witty and acerbic as well as serious. \nStormlight includes her Royal Court short play You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know examining the Blair legacy. Stories range from a Rambler’s Christmas day walk\, a childless senior sneaking into a mothers’ and babies’ only film\, a bitter family argument over the EU referendum\, management consultant wonkery\, and the down but not quite out of homeless street life. All are rooted in experience and activism. \nThe evenings readings will include Jan’s short play ‘You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know’ first performed at the Royal Court. Guest actors will include Alan Franks. \nWine included. Cash sales only of Stormlight on the night. \n***FREE EVENT*** \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/stormlight-book-launch-with-jan-woolf/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jan-woolf.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191128T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191128T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20191119T174155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T174155Z UID:6953-1574967600-1574971200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Autonomy Now presents: 'Advertising Shits in Your Head' & 'Protest Stencil' launch DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening to celebrate the launch of Advertising Shits in Your Head (PM Press) and Protest Stencil (Dog Section Press). Find out more about subverting advertising\, including how to hack advertising spaces and run your own subvertising campaigns. \nAdvertising Shits in Your Head \n“Advertising Shits in Your Head provides a history of the practice (going back to the early ‘70s)\, alarming research and theory on the effects of the industry\, advice about how to take part (including legal information) as well as several stunning case studies. This is essential reading for all who want to fight back against the ‘most powerful and sustained system of propaganda in human history.’“ \n—Jamie Kelsey-Fry\, New Internationalist \nhttps://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=967 \n  \n \nProtest Stencil: \n“Whether it’s the designs\, the politics or the cheek\, we hope this little pamphlet inspires you. See you on the streets!” \n—Protest Stencil \nhttp://dogsection.org/press/protest-stencil/ \n  \n  \nFREE ENTRY \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/autonomy-now-presents-advertising-shits-in-your-head-protest-stencil-launch/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Pages-from-Protest-Stencil_WEB-727x1030.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191002T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191002T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20190828T113416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190828T113416Z UID:3342-1570042800-1570046400@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined' with JJ Bola DESCRIPTION:What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us\, from Trump’s twitter outbursts to deadly gun violence\, from male suicide rates to incels on Reddit and 4chan\, masculinity is perceived to be ‘toxic’\, ‘fragile’ and ‘in crisis’. \nIn Mask Off\, JJ Bola exposes masculinity as a performance that men are socially conditioned into. Using examples of non-Western cultural traditions\, music and sport\, he shines light on historical narratives around manhood\, debunking popular myths along the way. He explores how LGBTQ men\, men of colour\, and male refugees experience masculinity in diverse ways\, revealing its fluidity\, how it’s strengthened and weakened by different political contexts\, such as the patriarchy or the far-right\, and perceived differently by those around them. \nAt the heart of love and sex\, the political stage\, competitive sports\, gang culture\, and mental health issues\, lies masculinity: Mask Off is an urgent call to unravel masculinity and redefine it. \nJJ Bola is a writer\, poet and educator. He is the author of the novel No Place to Call Home (2017)\, as well as three poetry collections. He is one of the winners of the 2017 Spread the Word Flight 1000 Associates Prize. \n‘An uncompromising\, heartfelt and completely vital interrogation of this thing we call masculinity’ – Jeffrey Boakye\, author of ‘Black\, Listed: Black British Culture Explored’ \n‘Male privilege\, male violence\, love\, sex and mental health – there is nowhere JJ Bola refuses to go’ – Benjamin Zephaniah \n‘Incisive\, engaging\, powerfully vulnerable\, JJ Bola has given us an urgent and compelling examination of one of society’s most pressing subjects’ – Musa Okwonga \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/mask-off-masculinity-redefined-with-jj-bola/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/JJ-Bola.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191001T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191001T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20190906T140432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190926T133406Z UID:3759-1569956400-1569961800@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown And Social Collapse’ with Andrew Medhurst DESCRIPTION:Roger Hallam is co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and has written a booklet called “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse”\, the print copy of which we will be launching at this event. \nThe booklet outlines how the environmental and climate movements around the world need to come together in order to avert extinction of all life. It goes into detail on using nonviolent civil disobedience as well as other strategies and tactics to make real change happen. \nThe booklet is available as a free download\, and we will also have print copies available \nRoger’s position is that mass civil disobedience is the only way to create meaningful change on the issue. He says “I strongly believe in the tactics and strategies found in my booklet which are currently being ignored by many environmental campaign groups. Additionally\, I outline the concept of citizens assemblies and a new transition movement to inspire people to get started on making the necessary changes happen now\, before governments act. In the conclusion I write\, “The cost of freedom is civic duty.” I strongly believe tactics and strategies found in my booklet are currently being ignored by most environmental campaign groups. I invite them all to read my booklet and get in touch. […] \nMy booklet\, Common Sense for the 21st Century\, isn’t just a theory\, it’s a call to action and details the practicalities which I hope will lead to real change. The political class alone is not going to save us from extinction. Only a new common sense and a genuine rebellion can save us now. I hope you join us!” \n\n\n\n\nThe name of the book is inspired by Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense\, credited as being the spark that ignited the American revolution. When Extinction Rebellion made the ‘Declaration of Rebellion’ in October 2018 it inspired thousands of people to break the law and sit down on the bridges in London in November. Since then Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for the Future have grown exponentially\, along with the reach of Nobel peace prize nominated Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough‘s strong messages to the world. \nAs Roger is currently under arrest\, XR’s Andrew Medhurst will be speaking and taking questions.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/only-nonviolent-rebellion-can-now-stop-climate-breakdown-and-social-collapse-with-roger-hallam/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Common-Sense-cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190927T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190927T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20190803T162359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190810T110017Z UID:2433-1569610800-1569614400@housmans.com SUMMARY:FREE EVENT: Friday 27th September - Exhibition/Book Launch - Queer Heroes DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of art\, books and drinks to celebrate the release of Arabelle Sicardi and Sarah Tanat-Jones’ new book Queer Heroes\, a beautifully illustrated collection featuring 52 LGBTQ+ artists\, writers\, innovators\, athletes and activists who have changed the world from ancient times to present day. Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising\, this extraordinary book will show children that anything is possible. \nSarah will be joining us to paint a brand new mural on one of the shop windows and will have prints for sale. Come along for a chat\, a signed copy of the book and a celebration of queer history in all its wonderfully varied forms. \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/free-event-friday-27th-september-exhibition-book-launch-queer-heroes/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/QUEER-HEROS.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190925T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190925T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20190803T161414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190923T150153Z UID:2416-1569438000-1569441600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani (SOLD OUT) DESCRIPTION:A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work\, scarcity and capitalism \nIn the twenty-first century\, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation\, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment\, is instead the path to a world of liberty\, luxury and happiness—for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value of commodities—food\, healthcare and housing—towards zero. \nImprovements in renewable energies will make fossil fuels a thing of the past. Asteroids will be mined for essential minerals. Genetic editing and synthetic biology will prolong life\, virtually eliminate disease and provide meat without animals. New horizons beckon. \nIn Fully Automated Luxury Communism\, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope\, showing how we move to energy abundance\, feed a world of 9 billion\, overcome work\, transcend the limits of biology\, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination\, such a society merely heralds the real beginning of history. \nAaron Bastani is co-founder and Senior Editor at Novara Media and has a doctorate from the University of London. His research interests include new media\, social movements and political economy. He has written for Vice\, the Guardian\, the London Review of Books and the New York Times and regularly appears as a commentator on the BBC and Sky News. \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/fully-automated-luxury-communism-a-manifesto-by-aaron-bastani/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/falc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190821T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190821T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20190711T154057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190711T155300Z UID:1638-1566414000-1566417600@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Different Class: Football\, Fashion and Funk – The Story of Laurie Cunningham' with Dermot Kavanagh DESCRIPTION:Book launch for ‘Different Class: The Story of Laurie Cunningham’. \nAuthor Dermot Kavanagh hosts an illustrated talk on the life of Laurie Cunningham : footballer\, dancer and dandy. \nCunningham blazed a trail for black footballers at a time when racism was rife on the terraces and won over hostile crowds with his mercurial style. \nA glamorous outsider\, he was also a soul boy who danced on the 1970’s Soho funk scene in bespoke suits. \n‘Different Class’ follows his remarkable journey from the streets of Finsbury Park to the world’s most famous football club\, Real Madrid. \nCunningham’s story is not only a football one\, it is a story of London\, race relations and youth culture too. \nTickets available from this link\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/different-class-football-fashion-and-funk-the-story-of-laurie-cunningham-with-dermot-kavanagh/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DIFFCLASS_B_PBK_PRINTREADY-1-1-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190709T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190709T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20190618T131704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190626T155211Z UID:678-1562698800-1562702400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book launch of ‘Xystus’ My Life Story: A Child Of The Windrush Generation’ with Anne M Jones DESCRIPTION:What happened to the children of the WIndrush men and women who came here in the fifties\, the children who were left behind in the Caribbean then joined their parents later\, as teenagers? \nThis small book gives the first-hand account of one of these children – Xystus Sestus Marcell – in his own words\, who came to East London from St Lucia in 1972. He is  a man who cannot read or write but who knew he had an important story to tell\, so he dictated it and I wrote. \nThe story is a combination of awfulness\, adventure\, and immense courage\, and humour. It also raises many questions about issues around  racism \, early childhood\, and homelessness. \nA  ‘must-read’ ! \nA bargain at only five pounds (to offset costs of publishing) \nAnne M Jones \nFREE ENTRY \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-of-xystus-my-life-story-a-child-of-the-windrush-generation-by-xystus-sestus-marcell/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/windrush.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190705T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190705T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20190611T144728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T144728Z UID:590-1562353200-1562358600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Robert Lundquist: After Mozart (Heroin On 5th Street) DESCRIPTION:Housmans and New River Press are extremely proud to present the London launch of Robert Lundquist’s After Mozart (Heroin On 5th Street) – a collection comprising of five decades of work\, previously only available in magazine archives\, anthologies\, and out-of-print chapbooks.  A lost genius\, come and see Lundquist give a very rare London performance. \nSpeakers \nRobert Lundquist was one of the rising stars of the Santa Cruz renaissance. By the early 1970s he was published in the Paris Review\, anthologized in Raymond Carver’s magazine Quarry West\, and listed in Rolling Stone Magazine’s ‘Best 100 American Poets’. This is Lundquist’s first major work. Discover a lost genius in these pages. \nThese poems were written in bursts over five decades. From 1969 to 1973\, from 1980 to 1985\, and from 2014 to 2018. Lundquist has an extraordinarily sensitive voice deeply engaged with the works of García Lorca\, César Vallejo\, Paul Celan\, James Wight\, Wallace Stevens\, and John Ashbery. He addresses themes of love\, loss\, alcoholism\, and emotional pain. He meditates on death\, romance\, and beauty with wild formal experiments and a visceral\, surreal vision that is all his own. \nCentral to his poetry is the changing spirit of Downtown L.A. The poet was raised and has lived his entire life there. His grandmother was a waitress in Union Station and his father an undercover policeman. Some darker chapters are inspired by a stint living next to skid row. The neighbourhoods of DTLA – the automobiles\, diners\, bars\, wildlife\, and characters they contain – are evoked here with a noir melancholy and hallucinatory brilliance. \nMORE POETS TBC \nReviews \nAs a poet\, Lundquist finds an organising myth in water. Water manifests itself as the giver of life\, the bringer of death and the keeper of time\, never taking on just one role and often embodying all three at once. It is a pretty formal move on his part\, considering the experimentation and autonomy of form that otherwise characterise his work. Also\, it is a strikingly consistent vision\, given the five decades behind these poems. \nNevertheless\, it is the many faces and shapes of water that inform his poems: sea water\, shower water and tides; water’s bodily derivatives\, tears and sweat and saliva and blood; its darker derivatives\, waters that drown you\, alcohol or heroin liquefying in a spoon; fermented or sugared water like Jack Daniel’s and Coca Cola. Lundquist is constantly seeking it\, he looks for it everywhere and he sees it in everything. \nThe ancient practice of looking for a source of water in unlikely places is known as water divination\, or water witching. The one who does it is called a dowser. And Lundquist is skilful dowser in these poems. He conducts his water witching among the stony buildings\, the cracked pavements\, the smoggy air of his neighbourhood\, with patience and poetic steadiness. \nMersiha Bruncevic\, 3AM Magazine \n  \nTickets available here\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/robert-lundquist-after-mozart-heroin-on-5th-street/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/robertlundquistcover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190626T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190626T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T120318 CREATED:20190611T142700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T143158Z UID:573-1561575600-1561581000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956 DESCRIPTION:An attempt to understand and document the traditions and issues that have preoccupied leftist groups\, activists and struggles in the UK since 1956. \nWaiting for the revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day. The book is designed to complement the previous volume\, Against the grain: The far left in Britain from 1956\, bringing together young and established academics and writers to discuss the realignments and fissures that maintain leftist politics into the twenty-first century. \nThe two books endeavour to historicise the British left\, detailing but also seeking to understand the diverse currents that comprise ‘the far left’. Their objective is less to intervene in ongoing issues relevant to the left and politics more generally\, than to uncover and explore the traditions and issues that have preoccupied leftist groups\, activists and struggles. To this end\, the book will appeal to scholars and anyone interested in British politics. \nSpeakers  \nEvan Smith is a Visiting Adjunct Fellow in the School of History and International Relations at Flinders University\, South Australia \nMatthew Worley (Editor) \nProfessor John Kelly (Birkbeck University) \nTickets available here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/waiting-for-the-revolution-the-british-far-left-from-1956/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/British-far-left.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR