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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241206T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20241023T151934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T171315Z UID:61475-1733511600-1733518800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'Cities Made Differently' by DAVID GRAEBER & NIKA DUBROVSKY DESCRIPTION:We are honored to be welcoming Nika Dubrovsky to Housmans on December 6th to celebrate the publication of a marvelous new text\, co-written with the late David Graeber\, called Cities Made Differently. Joining Nika in conversation will the inimitable organiser and writer James Schneider. \n\n\n\nFull of playful graphics\, provocative questions\, and curious facts\, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. \n\n\n\nWhat makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky\, the late anthropologist David Graeber\, and Nika’s then four-year-old son\, this delightful and provocative book Cities Made Differently opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology\, literature\, play\, and drawing\, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth\, science and imagination\, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit—because we can\, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true. \n\n\n\nWith inspired pictures and prompts\, Cities Made Differently asks what a city is\, or could be\, or once was. Sleeping at the bottom of the ocean? Buried in lava? What were those cities of long ago\, and what will the cities of the future be? They might be virtual\, ruled by AI\, or islands of beautiful architecture afloat in seas of greenery. They might be utopian places of refuge or refugee camps as far as the eye can see. On land\, underground or aloft\, excavated or imagined\, cities\, this book tells us in provocative and funny ways\, can be anything we want them to be—and what we want them to be can tell us something about who we are\, what it is to be human\, and what’s possible when we make way for wonder. \n\n\n\nPlease feel free to bring your own drinks. We look forward to seeing you and contemplating together what a city is\, and what it could be\, and honoring the memory of our lost and much loved comrade David. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, event starts circa 7:15. \n\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/book-launch-cities-made-differently-by-david-graeber-nika-dubrovsky/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/91voyX7S6L._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250111T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250111T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20241219T112821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241219T123228Z UID:63216-1736622000-1736627400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Reasons to Rebel by Sheila Rowbotham DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a evening with celebrated socialist-feminist Sheila Rowbotham\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are thrilled to welcome Sheila Rowbotham back to Housmans and to celebrate the latest volume of her memoirs\, Reasons to Rebel: My Memories of the 1980s\, a defiant\, thrilling\, at times greatly moving\, reflection on the the Thatcher era. It was the worst of times\, it was the best of times… \n\n\n\n“The 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government battered left movements\, painfully disrupted working-class peoples’ livelihoods and pressed down on many groups who faced discrimination. There was no shortage of reasons to rebel. Along with thousands upon thousands of others I opposed not just the repressive laws\, but the fundamental tenets of the new right. Hanging on to visions of creative utopias\, we strove for new ways of organizing and relating to others and we sought to connect a liberatory sexual politics with rebellions against many kinds of inequality. We argued wrote\, campaigned\, demonstrated\, picketed.We established alternative cooperative projects\, secured reforms through local government and made direct international links. Resourceful resistance slowed down the onslaught but we were contending not simply with the doctrinal resolve of a right-wing government. We faced something larger\, something that could not be voted out – a more ruthless global capitalism\, geared to profits which was prepared to dump hard-won social provision and neglect to conserve even basic infrastructure.” \n\n\n\nSheila Rowbotham is an English socialist feminist theorist and historian. She is the author of many books in the field of women’s studies\, including Hidden from History (1973)\, Beyond the Fragments (1979)\, A Century of Women (1997) and Threads Through Time (1999)\, as well as the 2021 memoir Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm \n\n\n\n \n\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/book-talk-reasons-to-rebel-by-sheila-rowbotham/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Sheil-Rowbotham-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250113T110959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T175101Z UID:63617-1739386800-1739394000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Celebrating David Graeber DESCRIPTION:On February 12\, 2025 — his birthday — we will be celebrating the life and thought of the much missed David Graeber. Joining us will be David’s friend\, the writer\, activist\, and organizer James Schneider and the philosopher Sophie Scott Brown\, who has recently written a new foreword for the 20th-anniversary reissue of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Joining us from New York will be David’s wife and long term collaborator\, Nika Dubrovsky. James\, Sophie and Nika will discuss David’s life and work\, his principals of anarchism and anthropology\, before we open things up for a wider conversation with our audiences in London and New York. \n\n\n\nThis a free event. There is limited capacity in the shop so please RSVP below to ensure attendance. If your plans change and you are unable to attend please email us at shop@housmans.com so your space can be made available to someone else. \n\n\n\nThis event is a celebration and in the spirit of that you are free to byob. A small amount of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available at Housmans too. \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/celebrating-david-graeber/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/David-Graeber-009-1.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250219T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250219T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250114T115739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T120252Z UID:63723-1739991600-1739997000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Neuroqueer: A Neurodivergent Guide to Love\, Sex\, and Everything in Between by Cj Debarra DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to be welcoming the wonderful journalist and public speaker CJ DeBarra to talk about their essential guide to love\, sex and dating while neurodivergent. \n\n\n\nHitting their mid-thirties and still uncertain about relationships\, sex\, and love\, CJ DeBarra launched into a quest for understanding. Growing up in West Cork\, Ireland\, CJ knew they were ADHD\, but its implications remained mysterious. To write this book\, they drew on academic research\, medical studies\, the lived experience of other queer ADHD individuals\, and their background as an ADHD journalist. CJ fearlessly explored the raw realities of heartbreak\, love\, and sexuality\, and delved into the complexities of desire\, the impact of distractions during intimacy\, the role of dopamine\, and the allure of unconventional sexual experiences. Moreover\, CJ sheds light on alarmingly low diagnosis rates for women\, transgender individuals\, and non-binary individuals\, urging readers to advocate for improved healthcare. \n\n\n\nThis book also has a wider focus\, which explores the reasons why the diagnosis rates are so low for women\, transgender and non-binary folk\, why this matters\, and why we should be demanding better healthcare. \n\n\n\nJoin CJ on a voyage of self-discovery\, where vulnerability\, courage\, and unwavering determination unravel the mysteries of relationships\, sex\, and love for ADHD individuals and their loved ones. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/book-talk-neuroqueer-a-neurodivergent-guide-to-love-sex-and-everything-in-between-by-cj-debarra/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/9781911227236_360x.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250114T123508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T102110Z UID:63649-1740596400-1740601800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: PINK-PILLED: Women and The Far Right DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited to be hosting the London launch for this daring investigation into how women are recruited by the far right online. \n\n\n\nAs the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world\, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women. \n\n\n\nWomen play significant roles in far-right movements\, acting as propagandists\, prizes to be won and mother-warriors of the nation. But up to now their activities have been largely overlooked. In Pink-pilled\, journalist Lois Shearing interviews leading experts and infiltrates communities of tradwives and femtrolls to provide a cutting-edge account of how the far right uses the internet to recruit women. Shining a light on women’s experiences within these movements\, Shearing reveals horrifying examples of misogyny and violence. \n\n\n\nUnderstanding how and why women join movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back. Pink-pilled offers key insights for countering women’s radicalisation and building communities resistant to far-right thought. \n\n\n\nLois Shearing is a freelance journalist and author. They are the author of Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life (2021) and the co-editor of It Ain’t Over Til the Bisexual Speaks: An Anthology of Bisexual Voices (2024). Their writing on sex\, sexuality\, gender\, relationships\, digital culture\, and politics has appeared in Cosmopolitan\, The Independent\, Mashable\, The Metro\, and Gay Times\, among others. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome back to Housmans the brilliant Maya Oppenheim\, former Women’s Correspondent for The Independent and author of The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy\, to join Lake in conversation. The two will talk about roughly 45 minutes\, followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/book-launch-pink-pilled-women-and-the-far-right/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/9781526170699.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250301T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250301T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250128T153445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T153449Z UID:64098-1740855600-1740861000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Christopher Hill:The Life of a Radical Historian by Michael Braddick DESCRIPTION:“A splendid biography. Even those who know Hill’s work will learn a great deal. Braddick reveals Hill as a profound historical thinker and a vital voice in contemporary discussions of the English Revolution.”  John Rees\, author of The Fiery Spirits \n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Professor Michel Braddick to Housmans to discuss his brilliant\, facinating and wonderfully detailed biography of the great Marxist Historian Christopher Hill. \n\n\n\nChristopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolution and the development of the modern British state. While his career brought many of the trappings of establishment respectability — he was both a Fellow of the British Academy and the Master of Balliol College\, Oxford — he was also seen as a threat to that very same establishment. Under surveillance by the security services for decades\, in the 1980s Hill was publicly accused of having been a Soviet agent during the war. His was a Cold War life\, as well as a scholarly one.In this brilliant work of biography\, Michael Braddick charts Hill’s development from his abandonment of the respectable\, provincial Methodism of his youth\, through his embrace of Marxism\, to his membership and eventual break with the Communist Party\, as well as his celebrated intellectual career. While many of his books — not least the thrilling work of historical resurrection The World Turned Upside Down and God’s Englishman\, his classic biography of Oliver Cromwell — are still widely read and admired\, his intellectual reputation was damaged by sustained academic criticism in the politically charged atmosphere of the 1980s.Braddick’s judicious biography not only situates Hill’s life and work in their historical context but seeks to rescue Hill for a new generation of readers. \n\n\n\nMichael Braddick is a Fellow of All Souls College\, Oxford\, having previously worked at the University of Sheffield. He has held academic positions and visiting Fellowships in the United States\, Australia\, France\, and Germany. He has written extensively on state formation\, the English Revolution and political engagement and agency in early modern England\, Ireland and the British Atlantic. His books include The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution\, God’s Fury\, England’s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars\, and A Useful History of Britain: The Politics of Getting Things Done. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/book-launch-christopher-hillthe-life-of-a-radical-historian-by-michael-braddick/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/81dGZGsVUYL._SY466_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250308T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250308T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250122T125714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T152254Z UID:63862-1741460400-1741465800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: Celebrating 35 years of 'The Sexual Politics of Meat' With Carol J. Adams DESCRIPTION:The inimitable Carol J Adams will be returning to Housmans this Spring to join us in celebrating 35 years since the publication of her seminal work of Feminist-Vegan critical theory The Sexual Politics of Meat. \n\n\n\nFirst published in 1990\, Carol J. Adams’ revolutionary work has engaged\, enraged\, inspired and challenged readers with its exploration of the interplay between society’s ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with eating animals and masculinity. This iconic book\, referenced in rock songs\, feminist artwork and even a Law and Order SVU episode\, continues to change the lives of its readers today.Published to celebrate the book’s 35th anniversary\, this Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new introduction that reflects on how recent events continue to prove the relevance of this influential work. \n\n\n\nCarol will be in conversation with Dr Corey Wrenn from the University of Kent. They will discuss The Sexual Politics of Meat at length\, focusing on how its themes still resonate today\, what has changed and what has stayed the same. This will be followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers \n\n\n\nCarol Adams is a feminist-vegan advocate\, activist\, and independent scholar and the author of numerous books including The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. It has been translated into German\, Chinese\, Japanese\, Korean\, Turkish\, Portuguese\, Polish\, Spanish\, and French. She is also the co-editor of several important anthologies\, including most recently Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (with Lori Gruen) and The Good it Promises; The Harm it Causes: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism published in 2023 (co-edited with Alice Crary and Lori Gruen). The Carol J. Adams Reader: Writings and Conversations 1995-2015 appeared in the fall of 2016. \n\n\n\nShe has a Masters of Divinity from Yale University. In the 1970s\, alongside her spouse\, the Rev. Bruce Buchanan\, she started a Hotline for Battered Women in Western New York. She is the author of Woman-Battering (1995) in Fortress Press’s Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series. With Marie Fortune\, she edited Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook (1995). She also wrote a training manual\, Pastoral Care for Domestic Violence:  Case Studies for Clergy – for Christian Audiences – Training Manual (2007) published by the FaithTrust Institute. She wrote one of the earliest articles theorizing why batterers harm animals\, Woman-Battering and Harm to Animals.Dr. Corey Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar\, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016)\, was elected Chair in 2018\, and co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals\, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations\, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly\, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee\, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016)\, Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019)\, Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021)\, Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming\, Routledge\, and Vegan Feminism: History\, Theory\, Activism (forthcoming\, Bloomsbury). \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/book-talk-celebrating-35-years-of-the-sexual-politics-of-meat-with-carol-j-adams/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/9798765123669.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250319T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250319T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250204T122050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T122148Z UID:64320-1742410800-1742416200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: The Psychic Lives of Statues by Rahul Rao DESCRIPTION:The Psychic Lives of Statues\n\n\n\nReckoning with the Rubble of Empire\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond\, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present. \n\n\n\nWe are very excited to be launching The Psychic Lives of Statues by Rahul Rao which offers an insightful exploration of these global controversies\, demonstrating that beneath their surface lie deeper struggles over race\, caste\, and the politics of decolonisation. \n\n\n\nRao takes readers on a journey through South Africa\, England\, the US\, Ghana\, India\, Australia\, and Scotland\, revealing how statue controversies have dramatically rearranged the canon of anticolonial political thought. By examining these debates through a personal and literary lens\, Rao addresses the multifaceted issues of justice\, cultural memory\, and belonging. The Psychic Lives of Statues examines both the toppling of colonial statues and the raising of postcolonial ones\, demonstrating that the statue form as a medium of representation and a bid for immortality is by no means obsolete. Engaging with artists\, scholars\, and activists\, Rao provides fresh perspectives on how societies grapple with and reinterpret the past and present through iconography. \n\n\n\nRahul Rao is a Reader in International Political Thought in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews\, and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London. He is the author of two books – Third World Protest: Between Home and the World (2010) and Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (2020)\, both published by Oxford University Press. He is a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. Doors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/book-launch-the-psychic-lives-of-statues-by-rahul-rao/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/9780745350769.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250326T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250326T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250204T125622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T125643Z UID:64335-1743015600-1743021000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Alt Reich by Nafeez Ahmed DESCRIPTION:An evening with Dr Nafeez Ahmed\, discussing his latest work of essential investigative journalism\, ALT REICH: The Network War To Destroy The WestFrom Within\n\n\n\nWhy does Elon Musk suddenly care about what’s happening in Britain? \n\n\n\nOver the last 100 years\, a shadowy network of American\, British and European extremistsinspired by Nazi eugenics has worked feverishly to shape an insidious new fascism\, masquerading under the banner of ‘freedom’. This is all revealed and expounded in Alt Reich\, the new\, vital\, book from award-winning journalist Dr Nafeez Ahmed who will be joining us to discuss the far-right’s rise to the mainstream and reveal why and how this network emerged\, who is behind it\, how it works\, and what it wants: to replace Western democracies with a global techno-authoritarian order that protects elite power in an age of planetary poly-crisis. \n\n\n\nAhmed explains Musk’s pivotal role in the network behind Trump’s return and the forming of a new ‘techno-utopian fascism’ that merges corporate tech power with the state. Musk and X are part of a broader network of billionaire oligarchs with questionable views on race\, tech platforms\, and far-right groups that are fed up with democracy as we know it. Russian President Vladimir Putin is an integral player in this network. And this has significant implications that the Western national security establishment ignores at everyone’s peril. \n\n\n\nDr Nafeez Ahmed is a renowned systems theorist\, change strategist and award-winninginvestigative journalist\, formerly of The Guardian and VICE\, who 15 years ago predicted themeteoric rise of the far-right across the West. A bestselling author of seven books including AUser’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization\, he is Byline Times’ Special Investigations Reporter AtLarge. His work has been officially used by the 9/11 Commission\, the London bombingscoroner’s inquest and cited in the Congressional Record\, as well as in the UK House ofCommons and House of Lords – including in multiple parliamentary select committee inquiries. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. Doors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/book-talk-alt-reich-by-nafeez-ahmed/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-17.53.52-600x914-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250329T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250329T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250204T131320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T115029Z UID:64353-1743274800-1743280200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Renters Unite by Jacob Stringer DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Jacob Stringer as he discusses his vital new book Renters Unite: How Tenant Unions Are Fighting the Housing Crisis\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n‘Eye-opening\, practical\, thoughtful and revolutionary‘ \n\n\n\n– Danny Dorling\, author of Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis \n\n\n\n‘A birds-eye view of tenant organizing across the global north that touches down in moving stories of everyday struggle\, Renters Unite! is a generous and urgent reflection on the diversity of tactics in our movement—to turn individual fear into collective defiance\, to deepen our roots in our communities\, and to scale up our work to win the housing and the world we deserve‘  \n\n\n\n– Tracy Rosenthal\, co-author of Abolish Rent \n\n\n\nHousmans is delighted to welcome long-time organizer Jacob Stringer to the shop to talk about his essential new book\, penned from the front lines of the housing crisis. \n\n\n\nAs housing crises proliferate around the world\, so does the fightback. A new generation of tenants’ unions are rising up to demand good\, affordable housing for all. From the streets of Los Angeles to the avenues of Berlin\, these unions are rewriting the playbook on community empowerment and direct action. Stringer navigates the joys and perils of a new and exciting form of political organising. Through vivid storytelling and analysis\, this book takes readers to the frontlines to expose the brutality of criminal landlords and exploitative housing.It’s time to say no to bad landlords and join the movement for housing justice! \n\n\n\nJacob Stringer is a housing and social movements researcher\, and a member of London Renters Union. His work has appeared in openDemocracy. He will be in conversation with researcher and activist Jess Adams from Newcastle University. Jess works in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Institutes: the Institute for Social Science\, the Humanities Research Institute and Institute for Creative Arts Practice. Her research uses a militant methodology to understand contemporary notions of participation via an examination of her experience of participating in Corbynism and post-Corbynism. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. Doors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/book-lauch-renters-unite-by-jacob-stringer/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Stringer-RU.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250405T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250405T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250113T163030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250113T163102Z UID:63694-1743879600-1743885000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: THE WAGES OF DREAM WORK: Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor DESCRIPTION:Housmans are absolutely delighted to be welcoming Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel to the shop to discuss their essential new book from Minor Compositions:The Wages of Dreamwork. Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor. \n\n\n\nSurviving as a cultural or artistic worker in the city has never been easy. Creative workers find themselves celebrated as engines of economic growth\, economic recovery and urban revitalization even as the conditions for our continued survival becomes more precarious. How can you make a living today in such a situation? That is\, how to hold together the demands of paying the rent and bills while managing all the tasks necessary to support one’s practice? How to manage the tensions between creating spaces for creativity and imagination while working through the constraints posed by economic conditions? \n\n\n\nIn a more traditional workplace it is generally easy to distinguish between those who planned and managed the labor process and those who were involved in its executions: between the managers and the managed. For creative workers these distinctions become increasingly hard to make. Today the passionate and self-motivated labor of the artisan increasingly becomes the model for a self-disciplining\, self-managed labor force that works harder\, longer\, and often for less pay precisely because of its attachment to some degree of personal fulfillment in forms of engaging work. And that ain’t no way to make a living\, having to struggle three times as hard for just to have a sense of engagement in meaningful work. \n\n\n\nThe Wages of Dreamworkinvestigates how cultural workers in the modern metropolis manage these competing tensions and demands. Does the cultural economy treat you as a tool? If so\, perhaps it’s time to rethink how to down tools in this metropolitan factory. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/book-talk-the-wages-of-dream-work-class-composition-the-social-reproduction-of-cultural-labor/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/9781570274077.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250425T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250425T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250324T131854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T112547Z UID:65765-1745607600-1745614800@housmans.com SUMMARY:CANCELLED: the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 5.0\, a literary salon DESCRIPTION:SADLY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. \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/the87press-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-5-0-a-literary-salon/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_2439.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250429T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250429T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250324T150252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250408T160822Z UID:65778-1745953200-1745962200@housmans.com SUMMARY:ON TONY BENN: Andy Beckett and Melissa Benn in Conversation DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the long-awaited publication of Tony Benn’s political writings\, as well as the paperback edition of The Searchers\, we welcome Andy Beckett and Melissa Benn to the shop for a conversation on Benn\, his fellow Labour renegades and the future of the Labour left. \n\n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to be welcoming Melissa Benn to the shop to the celebrate the centenary anthology of her father Tony Benn’s speeches\, writings and interviews. The book is a timely reminder of his political potency and the urgency of his agenda across a wide set of issues: the consequences of empire\, the need to embrace industrial change\, reform of the state machine and the management of politics. Joining Melissa we have Andy Beckett\, journalist for The Guardian\, The Economist and The London Review of Books. We also be launching the paperback edition of Andy’s brilliant book The Searchers: Five Rebels\, Their Dream of a Different Britain\, and Their Many Enemies\, a book about Benn and the Labour Left politicians he collaborated with and inspired. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. Doors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/on-tony-benn-andy-beckett-and-melissa-benn-in-conversation/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/preeti-insta-12-1024x1024-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250430T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250430T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250128T131839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T132353Z UID:64080-1746039600-1746045000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: SQUATTING LONDON with Samuel Burgum DESCRIPTION:Squatting in London has a rich and diverse history. Today\, squatters live a marginalised\, stigmatised and criminalised existence\, yet they persist. Behind the glittering façade of shiny new buildings\, London is a network of vacant offices\, boarded-up shops and dilapidated pubs that host some of the city’s poorest and most determined citizens\, exiled and increasingly pushed to the margins. \n\n\n\nWe are very excited to welcome Samuel Burgum to Housmans to talk about his vital new book about a facinating\, and much neglected\, part of our urban history. Squatting London: The Politics of Property is an account of the real lives of the city’s squatters: their ambitions and struggles. Squatting is a challenge to the logic of property which underpins the city. By finding refuge\, staying put\, creating spaces and participating in counter-cultures\, squats are political acts. They sit in direct opposition to the speculation\, gentrification and regeneration that controls London today. \n\n\n\nFrom wasted office blocks transformed into a life-saving homeless shelter\, to temporary art exhibitions and raves; from an empty doctor’s surgery\, to a library closed by cuts; from mutual aid networks set up during the pandemic\, to restaurants\, shops\, offices and pubs – Squatting London is an alternative\, underground and rebellious ethnographic account of a city you thought you already knew. \n\n\n\nSamuel Burgum is an urban sociologist\, currently conducting a Leverhulme-sponsored ethnographic project on squatting in the context of the UK’s housing crisis. He is the author of Occupying London: Post-Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility. He has written for various journals\, including Antipode\, The Sociological Review and Journal for Cultural Research. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/book-talk-squatting-london-with-samuel-burgum/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/9780745341439-1.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250521T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250521T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250422T111633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T141049Z UID:66091-1747854000-1747859400@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Politics of Motherhood: Alex Bollen & Helen Charman in conversation DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to welcome two brilliant contemporary feminist thinkers to Housmans; their projects address ‘motherhood’ and the figure of the mother\, as the urgent political categories that they are. \n\n\n\nAlex Bollen is a Postnatal Practitioner with the National Childbirth Trust and researcher with over 20 years of experiance\, in Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good Mother Myths she picks apart the pernicious histories of what she refers to as ‘Good Mother Myths.’ These myths are deployed to censure mothers and blame them for society’s problems. Incensed by the way bad science is used to shame mothers\, she decided to set the record straight. With meticulous research and keen insight\, Motherdom exposes both the shaky science and unjustified prescriptions about how mothers should ‘naturally’ behave. Competing visions of birth – ‘natural’ versus ‘medical’ – mean women can be criticised whatever happens\, raising the odds that birth will be a damaging\, even deadly\, experience. Mothers are judged and belittled whether they breast- or bottle-feed their babies. Bogus claims about brain development and dodgy attachment theories mean that whatever mothers do\, it is never enough. This must stop\, she says. We must replace Good Mother myths with a realistic approach to parenting. Alex Bollen proposes ‘motherdom’\, a more expansive conception of motherhood\, which values and respects the different ways people raise their children. Instead of finding fault with mothers\, Motherdom shifts our focus to the relationships and resources children need to flourish. \n\n\n\nAlex will be in conversation with Helen Charman whose book Mother State\, not even out in paperback yet\, already has a well deserved reputation as one of the major works of Marxist-Feminist thinking produced this decade. In it\, Helen argues that motherhood must be conceived within poltical terms and that we must take a wider historically cohesive view of the figure of the mother\, who is both monstered\, and legislated againist\, by the state\, whilst also being held up as sort of ideal of reactionary political femininity. From the blurb: “In Mother State\, Helen Charman writes a new history of Britain and Northern Ireland. Beginning with Women’s Liberation and ending with austerity\, the book follows mothers’ fights for an alternative future. Alongside the mother figures that loom large in British culture\, from Margaret Thatcher to Kat Slater\, we meet communities of lesbian squatters\, anti-nuclear campaigners\, the wives of striking miners and teenage mothers protesting housing cuts: groups who believed that if you want to nourish your children\, you have to nourish the world around them too. Here we see a world where motherhood is not a restrictive identity but a state of possibility. ‘Mother’ ceases to be an individual responsibility\, and becomes an expansive collective term to organize under\, for people of any gender\, with or without children of their own. It begins with an understanding: that to mother is a political act.” \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\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/the-politics-of-motherhood-alex-bollen-helen-charman-in-conversation/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/preeti-insta-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250609T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250609T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250521T140843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T140846Z UID:66888-1749495600-1749501000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation by Juliana Gleeson DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to be welcoming Juliana Gleeson\, one of the co-editors of the much acclaimed Transgender Marxism\, back to Housmans to celebrate the publication of her new book: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation. In this work\, Gleeson examines the history of the Intersex Liberation Movement\, and reveals the means by which it interrogated systemic medical abuses of intersex people and reshaped our understanding of ‘sex.’ Blending philosophical insights and personal testimonies\, Gleeson argues that intersex people have been harmed not just for therapeutic reasons but to ease professional and parental anxieties. \n\n\n\nJuliana will be in conversation with the philosopher Billie Cashmore. They will talk for around 45 minutes or so\, followed by an audience Q&A. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nJuliana Gleeson is a writer\, comedian and historian. She has published essays in outlets including Viewpoint Magazine\, Invert Journal and VICE\, and performed internationally at a wide range of communist and queer cultural events. She is the co-editor of Transgender Marxism. \n\n\n\nBillie Cashmore is a PhD student in Philosophy at Kingston University. Her work is on the challenge posed to philosophy by the Black Radical Tradition\, particularly concerning the concepts of value\, narrative and relation. Her first book We Hear Only Ourselves was published by Zer0 Books in 2023. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\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/book-launch-hermaphrodite-logic-a-history-of-intersex-liberation-by-juliana-gleeson/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/81dgF0BdAgL._SL1500_-600x900-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250611T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250611T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250514T130350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T113456Z UID:66745-1749668400-1749673800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL: Dan Hicks in conversation with Dr Mai Musié & Onyekachi Wambu DESCRIPTION:Every Monument Will Fall: A Story Of Remembering And Forgetting\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold\, provocative book is an indispensable resource’ — Paul Gilroy\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack\, Dan Hicks argues\, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums\, public art\, and even universities – and one that has a deeper history than you might think. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Professor Dan Hicks back to Housmans to discuss his incredible new book Every Monument Will Fall: A Story Of Remembering And Forgetting\, a beautifully written\, polemical but generous work. Tracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art\, heritage\, memory\, and colonialism\, Every Monument Will Fall joins the dots between the building of statues\, the founding of academic disciplines like archaeology and anthropology\, and the warehousing of stolen art and human skulls in museums – including the Pitt Rivers Museum\, where he is a curator. \n\n\n\nPart history\, part biography\, part excavation\, the story runs from the Yorkshire wolds to the Crimean War\, from southern Ireland to the frontline of the American Civil War\, from the City of London to the University of Oxford – revealing enduring legacies of militarism\, slavery\, racism and white supremacy hardwired into the heart of our cultural institutions. \n\n\n\nEvery Monument Will Fall offers an urgent reappraisal of how we think about culture\, and how to find hope\, remembrance and reconciliation in the fragments of an unfinished violent past. Refusing to choose between pulling down every statue\, or living in a past that we can never change\, the book makes the case for allowing monuments to fall once in a while\, even those that are hard to see as monuments\, rebuilding a memory culture that is in step with our times. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nDan Hicks MA (Oxon)\, PhD\, FSA\, MCIfA (born 1972) is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford\, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum\, and a Fellow of St Cross College\, Oxford. Dan works on the material and visual culture of the human past\, up to and including the modern\, colonial\, contemporary and digital worlds\, and on the history of Archaeology\, Anthropology Art\, and Architecture. His curatorial work has ranged widely\, and has included the co-curated exhibition and book Lande: the Calais “Jungle” and Beyond in 2019 and Victor Ehikhamenor at St Paul’s Cathedral in London in 2022. You can read a 2025 interview about his background\, career and writing on the Society of Antiquaties of London website here. \n\n\n\nDan’s latest book is Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting\, published with Penguin (Hutchinson Heinemann)\, and he also recorded the audio book for Every Monument Will Fall. \n\n\n\nDan has published nine authored and edited books\, and has written articles\, essays and op-eds for a variety of journals\, magazines and newspapers\, for a wide range of audiences: from the Times Literary Supplement to The Art Newspaper\, Apollo Magazine\, Art Review\, Artnet\, Architectural Review\, Frieze Magazine\, Hyperallergic\, The Guardian\, The Telegraph\, and The Independent. Dan has regularly appeared on live Radio and TV news and in documentaries\, including BBC News at Ten\, Channel 4 News\, Sky News\, LBC\, Times Radio\, and BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time\, The Moral Maze\, The World Tonight\, Front Row\, The Today Programme and Making History. \n\n\n\nDr Mai Musié’s research focuses on race and ethnicity in the ancient world. She is also interested in medieval manuscripts\, particularly from Ethiopian-Eritrean traditions. She is passionate about exploring the interconnectivity between the ancient Mediterranean world and North-East Africa. \n\n\n\n​Mai arrived in the UK aged 8 as a child refugee of the Ethiopian-Eritrean civil war. As a young child she spent many happy days in South Lambeth Tate Library exploring stories written about the ancient world\, particularly Greek myths. Mai went on to study Classical Civilisation at university and forged a career in engaging the public with the ancient and medieval world. \n\n\n\nOnyekachi Wambu is a respected writer and journalist. He was born in Nigeria in 1960 and arrived in Britain after the Biafran War. In the late 1980s he edited the Voice newspaper\, and has directed documentaries for the BBC\, Channel 4 and PBS. He is the Executive Director of the African Foundation for Development. His most recent book\, Empire Windrush: Reflections on 75 Years & More of the Black British Experience\, was published in 2023. Onyekachi is also currently working with the All Party-Parliamentary Group on Afrikan-Reparations which in March 2025 published the Laying Ancestors to Rest Policy Brief. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, 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\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-every-monument-will-fall-by-dan-hicks/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/81lSLUc-JnL._SL1500_-600x938-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250618T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250618T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250524T120501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250524T122448Z UID:66989-1750273200-1750278600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book talk: Drax of Drax Hall with Paul Lashmar DESCRIPTION:How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted that celebrated journalist Paul Lashmar will be joining us for an evening at Housmans to discuss his latest book\, Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery. A brilliantly detailed and probing study of a how powerful British family came by their wealth through the worst kind of brutal\, dehumanising violence. \n\n\n\nWith a forward by David Olusoga\, this book\, which spans 400 years and 18 generations\, tells a story that has never been told. While all the British landed gentry profited from chattel slavery in the West Indies\, the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Dorset pioneered it. \n\n\n\nIt all started when James Drax\, one of the first settlers in Barbados in 1627\, effectively founded the British sugar industry. His descendants went on to write the book on how to run a slave plantation. For more than two hundred years\, the family enslaved up to 330 people at any time and became enormously rich. Today\, the bloodline is unbroken\, and former Tory MP Richard Drax heads the family from his vast Charborough Estate in Dorset. With physical assets worth at least £150m—not to mention the 621-acre sugar plantation in Barbados\, the Drax Hall Estate—he was the wealthiest landowner in the House of Commons. Unseated in 2024\, he remains a hero amongst hard-right culture warriors for his refusal to make any reparations for his family’s role in slavery. \n\n\n\nDrax of Drax Hall lifts the lid on the grotesque history of this family. Through enclosure at home and enslavement abroad\, their exploits expose the ugly realities of colonialism and empire—the legacies of which we have yet to fully confront today. \n\n\n\nPaul Lashmar is Reader in Journalism at City St George’s\, University of London. He has taken an interest in the history of slavery since he developed a Channel 4 series on Britain’s slave trade in 1999. He has been an investigative journalist in television and print\, and on the staff of The Observer\, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. He is the author\, co-author or co-editor of six books. He lives in Dorset. \n\n\n\nAdvanced Booking Strongly Recommended. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\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/book-talk-drax-of-drax-hall-with-paul-lashmar/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/5508.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250625T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250625T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250603T112648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250623T154612Z UID:67539-1750878000-1750883400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: REMEMBERING WOMEN by Christine Lehnen DESCRIPTION:Women do have a history of their own. All we need to do is remember it. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Dr Christine Lehnen to Housmans to discuss her illuminating new investigation\, Remembering Women\, that looks back at our collective memory to explore the myriad ways that women in the past have enjoyed a more egalitarian life \n\n\n\nDue to advances in bioarchaeological methods\, scientists have discovered that one out of three women in Ancient Scythia was an active warrior buried with her weapons. Far from being confined to their homes\, these women rode out to hunt\, travelled to distance places\, or used weapons to fend off their enemies. These warriors were no exceptions to the rule\, with women enjoying a significantly higher degree of equality than their Greek contemporaries. \n\n\n\nRemembering Women argues that there is a historical precedent for a fairer society. From reappraisals of well-known objects such as the earliest human bone calendars from the Stone Age to revelatory findings of innovative bioarcheological methods used on human remains from Ancient Scythia\, evidence is accumulating that there were places in the past where all women were allowed to thrive. \n\n\n\nInterweaving new findings from archaeology with the stories of her mother and grandmothers\, as well as her everyday experiences as a woman living today\, Lehnen explores our collective memory of women and argues that it needs to change if we are to create an egalitarian society. Remembering Women follows the traces left in the material\, literary\, and archaeological record by our foremothers\, and their heirlooms\, artwork and stories\, to take a fresh look at our life in the present. \n\n\n\nChristine will be joined in conversation by the writer and wild-swimmer Emma Simpson\, author of Breaking Waves. They will be in conversation for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nCHRISTINE LEHNEN is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She is a regular contributor on feminism\, culture\, history\, archaeology and public memoryfor outlets such as Aeon\, Psyche\, The Wire\, Antigone\, New Lines\, Magazine\, and Deutsche Welle. \n\n\n\nEMMA SIMPSON is a wild swimmer and writer specialising in narrative non-fiction. Having spent a couple of decades being distracted by a career as an air traffic controller and experiencing two life-wrenching events\, she rediscovered her pen and passion for storytelling at the same time as discovering how transformational cold-water swimming was for hert health\, wellbeing\, and sense of connection with the world. She explores these themes in her compelling\, moving book Breaking Waves. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: Our website has been malfunctioning and we are currently unable to sell tickets through it. For the time being events will be free but please RSVP using the link below. Please only RSVP if you are certain to come to the event\, as we need to keep a cap on the volume of attendees for health and safety reasons. \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-remembering-women-by-christine-lehnen/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Remembering-Women-HB-Cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250701T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250701T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250521T133641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T151825Z UID:66865-1751396400-1751401800@housmans.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: Friends in Common by Laura C. Forster and Joel White DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Laura C. Forster and Joel White to the shop for a dicussion of their wonderful\, exhilarting book on the radical potential of friendship! \n\n\n\nFriendship is full of revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system. Friends in Common explores friendship as a radical practice\, capable of upending hierarchies and producing social change.Friendship can transcend social boundaries and political borders. It is vital in building communities and underpinning solidarity. But its transformative potency ensures that it is heavily policed and restrained by the state. Understanding the radical possibilities of friendship can help us rethink our approach to family\, work and politics\, and show us new routes to resistance and ways to open up spaces of solidarity and escape. The dissonance created by comparing societal expectations around friendship and a lonely reality\, especially in the wake of an isolating global pandemic\, is deeply alienating. Friends in Common shows that friendship as a political practice is foundational to strengthening revolutionary ideas and projects\, and is the antidote to capitalist despair. \n\n\n\nLaura and Joel will talk us through the book and its major themes and arguments for around 45 minutes\, followed by an audience Q&A. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nLaura C. Forster is a writer and historian based in Newcastle. She is a lecturer in Modern History at the University of York\, and has written for Tribune\, ROAR\, and DOPE. \n\n\n\nJoel White is a writer and campaigner based in Glasgow. His writing has appeared in Tribune\, the LRB Blog\, Radical Philosophy\, The Guardian\, and The Wire. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT. Please call us or email shop@housmans.com to be added to the waitlist. \n\n\n\n\n\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/book-talk-friends-in-common-by-laura-c-forster-and-joel-white/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/9780745350585.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250705T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250705T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250610T125434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250612T102731Z UID:67713-1751742000-1751747400@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: Pamemar Press x Tripwire Journal Leslie Kaplan translations DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to be welcoming our friends Tripwire Journal [who are joining us all the way from California!] and Pamenar Press to celebrate the work of a very important writer indeed: Leslie Kaplan. We are very lucky to be hosting the launch of TWO Kaplan books available in English for the first time. \n\n\n\nThe French poet\, playwright\, and novelist Leslie Kaplan has been an important writer of the French left. She has published over twenty books in all three genres\, many of which have been translated into German\, Swedish\, Spanish\, Danish\, Norwegian\, and now\, English. Her first book\, L’exces l’usine (1982)\, gained the attention of writers such as Marguerite Duras and Maurice Blanchot\, and became an important book for the ‘68 generation. In 2018 Commune Editions published Excess—The Factory\, translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap. This was the first English language edition of the book. \n\n\n\nNow\, from Pamenar Press we have the first English edition of The Book of Skies\, also translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap. Like its predecessor Excess—The Factory this collection emerged from Kaplan’s experience of participating in the national strike and social revolution of 1968 in France. Early in ‘68 Kaplan\, like others\, left her studies in order to take on factory work\, as an aspect of revolutionary practice. Excess—the Factory famously put the factory experience on the page in sparse and original language. The Book of Skies takes place in the period just after ‘68 as the speaker now observes the places\, landscapes\, and people surrounding and relying on factory production in French cities\, small and large. As the speaker moves from site to site\, she finds possibility within the social spaces of the market\, the street\, the café\, and even the factory itself. While class and gendered violence threaten to shut down hopes for freedom and renewal\, the sky\, as reality and as figure\, functions as an aperture\, drawing our attention upward and outward\, even or especially when domestic and work-spaces are most violent or suffocating. \n\n\n\nAlongside this\, we are delighted that our comrade David Buuk from Tripwire will be joining us to launch a new English edition of Kaplan’s novella\, Miss Nobody Knowsp; about the lived aftermath of May ’68: its hopes and failures and how they continue to resonate today.A book described by Jean-Luc Godard as ‘so strong and graceful\, so… so… so… as if the novel were suspended between the animal and the human.” \n\n\n\n“Ostensibly about the May ’68 strike and a man who cannot deal with its aftermath\, but really a love story to these moments when suddenly the utopian comes into view and no longer feels impossible. It’s a book to read right now so as to remember that there have been moments when people come together in the name of possibility\, rather than in rage.” —Juliana Spahr \n\n\n\nThis is a free event but please RSVP using the link below. BYOB. \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/poetry-reading-pamemar-press-x-tripwire-journal-leslie-kaplan-translations/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/tickets2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250709T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250709T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250617T130404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250708T125752Z UID:67905-1752087600-1752093000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: YOUR LIFE IS NOT A (FUCKING) STORY with Simon Critchley DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome Simon Critchley to the shop to discuss a new volume of essays\, ‘Your Life Is Not a (Fucking) Story‘ published by everyday analysis. In this collection of his recent articles\, Critchley – one of the most important living philosophers – takes us through his reflections on death\, questions of doubt and reason\, the legacy of David Bowie\, the nature of fear and empathy in a broken society and a critique of narrative identity – among other things. Your Life Is Not a Story explores the contemporary world and its psychological impact on us\, offering us a way to see our situation different and resist its tricks and contrivances. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event. \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-talk-your-life-is-not-a-fucking-story-with-simon-critchley/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ea-coverconcepts-critchley_page_1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250716T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250716T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250617T125025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T104237Z UID:67576-1752692400-1752697800@housmans.com SUMMARY:CANCELED: CARCERAL APARTHEID: Brittany Friedman in conversation with Ali Meghji DESCRIPTION:Please note this has event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. \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-talk-carceral-apartheid-brittany-friedman-in-conversation-with-ali-meghji/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/9781469683409.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250721T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250721T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250705T123301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250721T155208Z UID:68323-1753124400-1753133400@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: GHAYATH ALMADHOUN AND LOTTE L.S. DESCRIPTION:We welcome the Syrian-Palestinian Ghayath Almadhoun to the shop to read from his incredible collection I HAVE BROUGHT YOU A SEVERED HAND\, reacently translated into English by Catherine Cobham and published by Divided Publishing. \n\n\n\nFluid and unselfconscious\, Ghayath Almadhoun writes love poems in the shape of nightmares: I have brought you a severed hand is a surreal mix of absurd humour\, straight lust and dead seriousness. Caught between two exiles\, the one inherited from his Palestinian father and the one he chose and lives\, Almadhoun attempts to explain water and tame hope. \n\n\n\nReading alongside him\, and joining him in discussion we have Lotte L.S. one of the finest British poets working today in a radical left tradition. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but we ask that you RSVP using the link below. Drinks will be available\, but please do feel free to BYOB. \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/poetry-reading-ghayath-almadhoun-and-lotte-l-s/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/tickets-3-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250726T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250726T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250630T110252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250723T172218Z UID:68198-1753556400-1753561800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: FASCIST YOGA with STEWART HOME DESCRIPTION:We are very\, very\, very exited to be welcoming the dazzling provocateur\, artist and all-round London legend STEWART HOME back to Housmans to talk about his latest book\, Fascist Yoga: Grifters\, Occultists\, White Supremacists\, and the New Order In Wellness\, a dazzling exposé on the violent politics and occultic fascism that underpins much of the history of contemporary yoga. As ever\, Stewart Home shows that nothing is sacred. \n\n\n\nThe practice of yoga promises peace\, self-realisation and release\, thanks to the power of its ‘mystic’ Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga\, Stewart Home sweeps away the half-truths to tell a new origin story of the world’s first modern yogi – a Californian escapologist who added some Hindu fairy dust to gym and circus exercises. \n\n\n\nEver since\, the world of yoga has been full of grifters\, occultists and white supremacists\, all out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise. From cult leaders to brainwashed followers\, TV celebrities and fake gurus\, the story of yoga has involved some of the strangest currents of humanity. \n\n\n\nToday\, the COVID pandemic has activated elements within the modern yoga movement to espouse far-right conspiracies\, and QAnon’s fascist political programmes mirror some of yoga’s key early proponents. \n\n\n\nInterviewing Stewart about the book we have the legendary poet Sascha Aurora Akhtar! Sascha was born in Pakistan. Since that was obviously a mistake\, she fled as soon as possible to an environment where women could be wacky. What was born was a hydra. Each head a different medium\, via which to transmit her wyrd and whimsical witchery. She graduated from Bennington College in 1999. She has written all too many poems\, out of which some have managed to become titled collections. Her films include Ana-el-Haqq (2002) and The Sea and Medusa (2006). In 2003 she received a fellowship from the Creative Writing department at UMASS Amherst where she worked with James Tate\, Sabina Murray and Peter Gizzi. In 2005 and 2006\, she performed in Butoh-based dance pieces at Chisenhale Dance Space in London. She recently was part of a year-long initiative by the International Museum of Women in San Francisco\, exhibiting work by women artists from around the globe. Her photographic work was on display at Gallery 27 on Cork Street in September 2007 and an exhibition of her works is upcoming in Spring 2008 at The Commune in Karachi\, Pakistan. She spends her time in London and Pakistan and is the co-producer of the successful La Langoustine Est Morte reading series. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \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 \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-fascist-yoga-with-stewart-home/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/9780745351124.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250729T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250729T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105350 CREATED:20250617T130155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T151241Z UID:67943-1753815600-1753821000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: THREE REVOLUTIONS: Simon Hall in conversation with Owen Hatherley DESCRIPTION:Simon Hall and Owen Hatherley will be joining us to discuss Simon’s fascinating new book\, THREE REVOLUTIONS: Russia\, China\, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World. \n\n\n\nFrom the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917\, to Mao’s stunning victory in October 1949\, and Fidel’s triumphant arrival in Havana\, in January 1959\, the history of the twentieth century was transformed in dramatic and profound ways by the Russian\, Chinese\, and Cuban revolutions. \n\n\n\nIn Three Revolutions\, the stories of these epoch-defining events are told together for the first time. At the heart of each revolution was an epic journey: Lenin’s 1917 return to Russia from exile in Switzerland; Mao’s ‘Long March’ of 1934–35\, covering some 6\,000 miles across China; and Fidel Castro’s return to Cuba in 1956 following his exile in Mexico. Told in tandem with these are the corresponding journeys of three extraordinary journalists – John Reed\, Edgar Snow and Herbert L. Matthews – whose electric testimony from the frontlines of each revolution would make a decisive contribution to how these revolutions were understood in the wider world. \n\n\n\nHere\, in Simon Hall’s masterful retelling\, these six remarkable journeys are brought vividly to life. Featuring a stellar cast\, extraordinary drama and an epic sweep\, Three Revolutions raises fundamental questions about the nature of political power\, the limits of idealism and the role of the journalist – questions that remain of utmost urgency today. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nSimon Hall is the Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds. He previously studied at Sheffield and Cambridge\, and held a Fox International Fellowship at Yale. His previous books include 1956: The World in Revolt and Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s. \n\n\n\nOwen Hatherley is the author of many books on aesthetics and politics\, including Landscapes of Communism\, Trans-Europe Express and Modern Buildings in Britain. His latest book\, The Alienation Effect explores how Central European Émigrés transformed Britain in the 20th century. He is a commissioning editor at Jacobin. \n\n\n\nAdvanced Booking Strongly Recommended. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\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/book-launch-three-revolutions-simon-hall-in-conversation-with-owen-hatherley-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Three-Revolutions-54-533x815-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250730T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250730T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105351 CREATED:20250705T114049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250705T114052Z UID:68311-1753902000-1753907400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: A Social History of Analytic Philosophy with Christoph Schuringa DESCRIPTION:‘Christoph Schuringa’s A Social History of Analytic Philosophy achieves the impossible: while it follows a clear line of interpretation – analytic philosophy is not politically neutral\, it is deeply rooted in capitalist liberalism and its struggle against Leftist engagement -\, it develops this line in a vast and complex narrative full of fascinating historical and personal details\, from the Cambridge beginnings of analytic thought (Russell\, Moore) through the key role of analytic philosophy in McCarthy purges up to how analytic approach was crucial in including anti-colonial and feminist orientations into the liberal frame (Appiah). Schuringa’s book is unputdownable – applied to it\, this term is not a cliché but a simple description of its effect on a reader.‘ \n\n\n\n – Slavoj Žižek \n\n\n\nIn the English speaking world\, self-described ‘analytic philosophy’ has become the predominant method of philosophical inquiry\, at least within the majority of university philosophy departments. By some\, it is celebrated for it’s exhalting of rigorousness and pursuit ‘the empirical.’ Others find these theoretical claims to be dubious and naieve. Christoph Schuringa\, in its brilliantly argued book\, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy\, argues that the enduring power of analytic philosophy can only be understood by examining its social history. The mode tends to think of itself as concerned with eternal questions\, transcending the changing scenes of history. It thinks of itself as apolitical. Schuringa\, however\, convincingly shows that the opposite is true. \n\n\n\nThe origins of analytic philosophy are in a set of distinct movements\, shaped by highly specific sets of political and social forces. Only after the Second World War were these disparate\, often dynamic movements joined together to make ‘analytic philosophy’ as we know it. In the climate of McCarthyism\, analytic philosophy was robbed of political force. \n\n\n\nTo this day\, analytic philosophy is the ideology of the status quo. It may seem arcane and largely removed from the real world\, but it is a crucial component in upholding liberalism\, through its central role in elite educational institutions. As Schuringa concludes\, the apparently increasing friendliness of analytic philosophers to rival approaches in philosophy should be understood as a form of colonization; thanks to its hegemonic status\, it reformats all it touches in service of its own imperatives\, going so far as to colonize decolonial efforts in the discipline. \n\n\n\nChristoph Schuringa studied philosophy at King’s College\, Cambridge and Birkbeck College\, University of London. He has published widely on the history of philosophy and on Marx and Marxism\, and is associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University\, London. He is Editor of the Hegel Bulletin\, and his writing has appeared in Jacobin\, New Left Review\, European Journal of Philosophy and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nHe will be joined in conversation with Jonathan Egid\, lecturer in Philosophy at SOAS. Jonathan recently completed my PhD at King’s College London on the Ḥatäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob and the controversy over its authorship. Beyond the aim of clarifying this intractable debate\, and bringing neglected works to a wider audience\, Jonathan is interested in thinking about different ways of writing the history of philosophy\, in particular what a truly global history of philosophy would look like. \n\n\n\nThe two will talk for around 45 minutes to 1 hour\, followed by a Q&A. Please do feel free to bring your own drinks. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, talk starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, 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\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-a-social-history-of-analytic-philosophy-with-christoph-schuringa-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/9781804292099.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250917T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250917T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105351 CREATED:20250807T161902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250807T161904Z UID:69142-1758135600-1758141000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: THE MERCY STEP: Marcia Hutchinson in conversation with Mel Pennant DESCRIPTION:Gosh this is an exciting one! Join us for a wonderful evening with two incredible authors from the Windrush generation: Marcia Hutchinson and Mel Pennant. The two will be discussing Marcia’s fantastic recent novel\, The Mercy Step. \n\n\n\nBradford\, December 1962. A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world\, torn from the warm embrace of her mother’s womb\, to a chaotic household that seems to have no place for her. Her siblings do not understand her\, her mother’s attention is given to the Church\, and the entire family lives at the whims of her father’s quick temper.  \n\n\n\nLeft to herself\, Mercy finds solace in books\, her imagination\, and the quiet comfort of her faithful toy\, Dolly. But escapism has its limits\, and as the grip of family\, faith and fear threatens to close in\, Mercy learns she must act if she wants a different future; one where she is seen\, heard\, and her family set free.  \n\n\n\nThe Mercy Step is a sharply-witted and tender portrait of a young girl’s quiet rebellion\, and her refusal to be broken.  \n\n\n\nMarcia and Mel will read from and discuss the book for around 45 minutes-1hr followed by a Q&A. Expect conversations around the Black British Experience\, women’s writing and Britain in the 60s! Hope to see you there. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\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/book-talk-the-mercy-step-marcia-hutchinson-in-conversation-with-mel-pennant/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/717pYt1ZBTL._SL1500_-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250924T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250924T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105351 CREATED:20250805T153440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250805T161139Z UID:69091-1758740400-1758745800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: ENGLAND'S MILITARY HEARTLAND DESCRIPTION:‘A thoughtful and human account of the enmeshment of the military into the landscapes of everyday life […] As we enter a renewed phase of militarised geo-politics\, this work becomes more urgent than ever.’— Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation \n\n\n\nIn association with King’s College London\, Housmans are delighted to host a talk around an essential new book: ENGLAND’S MILITARY HEARTLAND: Preparing for War on Salisbury Plain. This wonderful\, alarming and brilliantly written book explores the vital\, but underdiscussed\, interrelations between British military and civic life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, the armed forces became increasingly visible – partly due to public alarm at the number of fatalities but also as a result of interventions by government\, media and military leaders. Today the world is undergoing a terrifying arms race in which powerful arms companies are competing to produce new generations of killing technology\, including AI and nuclear weapons. Many people feel powerless to stop their governments spending more and more on defence\, and being complicit in ongoing war crimes. \n\n\n\nIn all this it’s important to remember that the military are a public institution and depend on taxpayers. The public has a right to understand the costs and consequences of maintaining a labour force for war-fighting\, especially one that works closely with major arms companies and contributes heavily to global carbon emissions. \n\n\n\nENGLAND’S MILITARY HEARTLAND introduces a ten-year investigation of the military training area on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire\, England and explores what it means to live next to a military base. The book questions how war blurs the boundaries between military and civilian\, and what can or cannot be addressed by the use of lethal violence\, sanctioned and organised by the state. To explore this we bring together a group of scholars and activists\, working on land justice and military ecological damage\, to think about how we resist the drive to war at home. \n\n\n\nWhat is it like to live next door to a British Army base? England’s military heartland provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain\, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. \n\n\n\nTargeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK’s global defence estate\, the Salisbury ‘super garrison’ offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge\, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. \n\n\n\nHow does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? This book investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war. \n\n\n\nUrgent\, important\, and poignantly recounted.’— Laleh Khalili\, author of Sinews of War and Trade \n\n\n\n‘Exposes the remarkable extent to which militarisation is shaping not only the lives of humans\, but the character and quality of the land on which they and other creatures live.’— Cynthia Enloe\, author of Twelve Feminist Lessons of War \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nSaskia Papadakis is a social researcher with expertise in the UK environmental movement\, anti-racism and British Black Power\, and socio-spatial inequalities in the UK. She organises across grassroots migrants’ rights groups in London. \n\n\n\nAntonia Dawes is a lecturer and writer at King’s College London. She works on racism\, antiracism and cultural theory. Her first book Race Talk (2020) is about race and racism in southern Italy. At this event she will speak on her new book England’s Military Heartland\, co-authored with Vron Ware\, Mitra Pariyar and Alice Cree. \n\n\n\nKhem Rogaly researches the political economy of the military and its role in climate crisis. His most recent report for the thinktank Common Wealth explored the potential for a just transition away from military production through interviews with workers. He will speak about the Khaki Economy in England’s Military Heartland in relation to the escalating arms race today. \n\n\n\nRachael Milliner is a member of the Museum of Enclosure\, an emergent\, itinerant\, internationalist\, political education project collecting oral histories of dispossession in England. Representing the project\, they will discuss how access to enclosed and militarised land is vital to performing memory work and relational accountability\, calling for further interventions in dominant British property culture. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\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/book-talk-englands-military-heartland/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/9781526174840.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T105351 CREATED:20250910T142854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T132245Z UID:70091-1759950000-1759955400@housmans.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: 'The Feminist Art of Walking'\, Rose Morag in discussion with Anna Minton DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome feminist writer and academic Morag Rose to the shop to discuss her brilliant and essential new book The Feminist Art of Walking; a vital intervention in the growing field of ‘literature about walking.’ \n\n\n\nThe allure of the city is powerful\, but not universally accessible. For many women\, it can be exclusionary\, exploitative and dangerous. In The Feminist Art of Walking\, Morag Rose shows how women can and do claim their place in the public space. \n\n\n\nSetting off to explore cities and towns across Britain\, she traces local histories and personal stories and attunes herself to the wider resonances of women’s rights amidst alienating capitalist cityscapes. Craving connection and comradeship\, she discovers a unique and inclusive approach to walking\, celebrating diverse women who transform walking into an art form and act of resistance. \n\n\n\nBy experiencing the pleasures and pains of pedestrian exploration\, she shows us how to reconnect with and become enchanted by our streets. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nMorag Rose is a walking artist activist and academic. She is founder of the Loiterers Resistance Movement and a senior lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. Her work focuses on public space\, regeneration\, access\, equality\, psychogeographies and the power of creative\, communal walking. In discussion with Morag we welcome back to Housmans Anna Minton. Anna spent a decade in journalism\, and went on to write ‘Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First Century City ‘ and ‘Big Capital: Who is London for?’. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL AL@HOUSMANS.COM\n\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/book-launch-the-feminist-art-of-walking-by-rose-morag/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Chosen-design-edit-2.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR