BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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: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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210901T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210901T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T043924 CREATED:20210811T110453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210811T110457Z UID:34228-1630522800-1630528200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism\, with Amelia Horgan [online event] DESCRIPTION:We are really pleased to have Amelia Horgan join us online to discuss work and capitalism. Lost in Work is part of the outstanding introductory series by radical publisher Pluto Press. \n\n\n\n‘Work hard\, get paid.’ It’s simple. Self-evident. But it’s also a lie – at least for most of us. For people today\, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure\, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfillment\, ‘work’ means precarity\, anxiety and alienation. \n\n\n\nAmelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it? While abolishing work altogether is not the answer\, Lost in Work shows that when we are able to take control of our workplaces\, we become less miserable\, and can work towards the transformative goal of experimenting with ‘work’ as we know it. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAmelia Horgan is a writer and researcher. She has written for various publications including Tribune\, the Guardian and VICE. \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. \n\n\n\nIf you are able to and wish 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/lost-in-work-escaping-capitalism-with-amelia-horgan-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/horgan.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210907T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210907T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T043924 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:20210909T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210909T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T043924 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:20210915T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210915T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T043924 CREATED:20210806T162316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210826T100248Z UID:34584-1631732400-1631737800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life\, with Lois Shearing [online event] DESCRIPTION:We are very pleased to welcome Lois Shearing to Housmans to discuss bisexuality in celebration of Bi Visibility Day. \n\n\n\nWhether you are openly bisexual\, still figuring things out or just interested in learning more about bisexuality\, Bi the Way is your essential guide to understanding and embracing bisexuality. With first-hand accounts from bi advocates\, it includes practical tips and guidance on topics including dating\, sex\, biphobia\, bi-erasure\, coming out\, activism and gender identity\, demystifying a community that is often erased or overlooked. \n\n\n\nRallying\, honest and powerfully written\, this is a manifesto for bisexual people everywhere. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nLois Shearing is a bi activist\, freelance journalist and writer based in London. They are the founder of the Bisexual Survivors Network and the #DoBetterBiUs campaign\, which aims to challenge biphobia. Their writing on bisexuality has been published by The Independent\, The Advocate\, DIVA magazine\, Gay Star News\, INTO\, and Openly. Bi The Way is their first book. \n\n\n\nVaneet Mehta\, pronouns He/Him\, is an Indian bisexual man born and raised in Southall\, West London. He works as a Software Engineer\, but in his spare time he works within the LGBTQ+ community. He volunteers for Rainbow Films and Middlesex Pride and co-founded The AmBIssadors\, a bisexual YouTube channel\, with Lois. He is also an avid writer\, having been featured in Stonewall\, Metro UK\, Unicorn Magazine and The Bi-ble Volume 2\, a bisexual anthology. He created the #BisexualMenExist hashtag and is currently writing a book on bisexual men and editing a bisexual anthology with Lois. \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 Bi The Way 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/bi-the-way-the-bisexual-guide-to-life-with-lois-shearing-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/bi-the-way-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T043924 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:20210929T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T043924 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 END:VCALENDAR