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  • Warp & Weft: Psycho-emotional Health, Politics and Experiences, with Lisa Fannen [online event]

    Warp & Weft explores radical frameworks to develop new ways of understanding experiences of distress within social and systemic contexts. Warp & Weft gathers together ideas, radical frameworks and reference points to explore consciousness, and ways of understanding experiences of distress as they occur within our social and systemic contexts. It looks at what gets called […]

  • Always Red, with Len McCluskey [online event]

    The major autobiography of a central player in a tumultuous period of British political history Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage. In this major autobiography, McCluskey throws back the […]

  • Commoning Care and Collective Power with Manuela Zechner [online event]

    Childcare Commons and the Micropolitics of Municipalism in Barcelona Commoning Care & Collective Power traces the twin genealogies of childcare commons and the micropolitics of municipalism in Barcelona. It shows how grassroots movements engaged new institutional experiments after Spain’s 15M movement, marked by struggles for social reproduction and a new feminist politics, leading towards commons […]

  • Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations [online event]

    How can economics be diversified, decolonised and democratised? Join us for a discussion on how to reclaim economics. Housmans is pleased to present "Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations", an event in collaboration with Manchester University Press. Across the world, economics students are coming together under the banner of the student movement, Rethinking Economics, to create […]

  • Small Town Girl, with Donna McLean [online event]

    A memoir from a voice at the centre of the Spy Cops scandal “You live with someone for two years and then . . . they simply don’t exist.” Over four decades, British undercover police deliberately and systematically started relationships with women in order to infiltrate protest groups. They lived with these women, some had […]

  • A Normal Life with Freedom Press [online event]

    A Normal Life is the autobiography of Vassilis Palaiokostas, known to the public as the “Greek Robin Hood,” to police as “The Uncatchable.” His is an illegalist existence lived in defiance of the police and of the state, and for decades, it has been a life lived as a fugitive. In Greece he has become […]

  • Abolition. Feminism. Now.

    Aviah Sarah Day (Sisters Uncut) in conversation with Gina Dent and Beth Ritchie. Abolition. Feminism. Now. is an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. The Black Feminist Bookshop and Housmans are very pleased to announce a joint event to celebrate the publication of Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie’s new […]

  • The Rise of Ecofascism with 12 Rules for WHAT [online event]

    The world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them? This incisive new book traces the long history of far-right environmentalism and explores how it is adapting to the contemporary world. […]

  • The Starmer Project: A Journey To The Right, with Oliver Eagleton [online event]

    A forensic political biography of the Labour Party leader The Labour Party has virtually disappeared from view under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Hailed as a human-rights champion and political outsider, what sort of politician is he really, and what mark is he making on the new politics of Labour? In The Starmer Project, Oliver Eagleton […]

  • Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales [online event]

    What does it mean to imagine Wales and “The Welsh” as something both distinct and inclusive? For many people, Wales brings to mind the same old collection of images – if it’s not rugby, sheep and rolling hills, it’s the 3 Cs: castles, coal, and choirs. Heritage, mining and the church are indeed integral parts […]

  • Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia, with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan [online event]

    Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don't even notice it – in our education, how we travel, our healthcare, legal system and at work. Behind the scenes it affects the most vulnerable, at the border and in prisons. Despite this, the conversation about […]

  • Expansion Rebellion with Celeste Hicks [online event]

    This is is a story of hope in the face of widespread consternation over the global climate crisis. For many people concerned about global warming, the 2018 vote by UK parliamentarians to proceed with the plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport was a devastating blow. Aviation was predicted to make up some 25% […]

  • Girl Online with Joanna Walsh

    What happens when a woman goes online? She becomes a girl. The unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to appear. Invited to self-construct as 'girls online', vloggers, bloggers […]

  • Tenants with Vicky Spratt

    The urgent story of this country's biggest crisis, told through the lives of those it most affects Tony is facing eviction instead of enjoying retirement; Limarra isn't 'homeless enough' to get help from the council; and for Kelly and her asthmatic son Morgan, another new rented house is a matter of life and death. This […]

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