Book Talk
Events
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‘Curious King’s Cross’ with Andrew Whitehead
Sex, pubs and rock'n'roll – King's Cross has it all, and so much more ... from a fish-and-chip shop once bugged by MI5 to London's most enduring radical bookshop! Inside […]
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‘The Twittering Machine’ with Richard Seymour
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonIn surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster […]
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‘Prison: a Survival Guide’, with Carl Cattermole and Erika Flowers
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonCarl presents his essential guide to life in UK prisons – now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside. […]
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‘Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century’ with Kehinde Andrews
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonBack to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela […]
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FREE EVENT: AUTONOMY NOW – This Land is Ours: The Fight for Land Justice / Speakers from the Anarchist Communist Group
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonLand, if we define it to include all physical resources such as water, air and what lies beneath the ground, is the source of all wealth and our very existence. […]
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‘Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown And Social Collapse’ with Andrew Medhurst
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonRoger 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”, […]
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‘Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined’ with JJ Bola
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonWhat 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 […]
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‘Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture’ with Amelia Abraham
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonToday, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and corporate endorsement all […]
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Solidarity with Catalonia Event with Ignasi Bernat, Liz Castro, Robert Knox and David Whyte
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonProtests have raged in Barcelona for over a week after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan independence leaders to long prison sentences. This Friday at 7pm, one of the main […]
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‘Here to Stay, Here to Fight – A Race Today Anthology’ with Leila Hassan, Farrukh Dhondy and Adam Elliott Cooper
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonFrom 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social […]
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‘Trans Power’ with Juno Roche
Join renowned author and campaigner Juno Roche in the shop for the launch of her new book - 'Trans Power'! 'All those layers of expectation that are thrust upon us; […]
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Repeater Takeover: ‘Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity’ with Nathalie Olah and Vicky Spratt
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonJoin journalists Nathalie Olah and Vicky Spratt to discuss the current state of today’s arts, media and cultural industries, at a time when a radical cultural response to our political […]
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Autonomy Now presents: ‘Journey Through Utopia’ with Matthew S. Adams, Rhiannon Firth, and Tim Waterman
January’s Autonomy Now event considers utopian thought in dystopian times. Join Matthew S. Adams, Rhiannon Firth, and Tim Waterman for a lively discussion about historical and contemporary visions of utopia, […]
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‘The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and the Nation in Twenty-First Century Britain’ with Sivamohan Valluvan and Gargi Bhattacharyya
THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception, and in the […]
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‘So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron’ with Susie Thomas, Nadia Valman, and Ken Worpole
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonThe novelist Alexander Baron (1917-1999) was born into a working class Jewish home in Hackney, joined the Communist Party as a young man, saw the thick of battle in Sicily […]
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