BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART: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:20250212T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001813 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:20250214T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250214T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001813 CREATED:20250113T133012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T173230Z UID:63630-1739559600-1739565000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Housmans x London Bookshop Crawl: Ellen Jones launches OUTRAGE DESCRIPTION:Housmans and the London Bookshop Crawl are delighted to welcome Ellen Jones to King’s Cross to celebrate the launch of OUTRAGE: Why The Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won And What We Can Do About It\, published by Bluebird Pan Macmillan. \n\n\n\nAlready named a Foyles Top 10 Recommended Read for 2025\, this groundbreaking and essential book sheds light on the ongoing challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people worldwide. Despite greater visibility in mainstream culture\, LGBTQ+ communities continue to encounter unacceptable levels of prejudice and danger—from rising homophobic and transphobic violence to the rollback of rights across the globe. In Outrage\, author and activist Ellen Jones explores these issues in depth\, examining their impact across education\, sports\, religion\, marriage\, mental health\, and more. \n\n\n\nIn searing prose\, punctuated with personal accounts from LGBTQ+ people from across the globe\, Jones sets out not only the issues but also practical actions\, both big and small\, that all of us can take to help create a more equal society. What’s more\, she shines a spotlight on the amazing individuals already working hard to change things. \n\n\n\nWhether you are a member of the LGBTQ+ community\, an ally\, or simply care about human rights and equality\, Outrage is essential\, and illuminating\, reading. \n\n\n\nJoining Ellen in conversation will be Jodie Lancet-Grant\, Editor and Associate Publisher at Pan Macmillan imprint Bluebird and the author of LGBTQ+-inclusive picture books published by Oxford University Press. Her book The Pirate Mums made history when it became the first book featuring a two-mum family to be read as a Cbeebies Bedtime Story\, by Sue Perkins. \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/housmans-x-london-bookshop-crawl-ellen-jones-launces-outrage/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OUTRAGE_Postcard_Back.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001813 CREATED:20250113T160729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250218T180741Z UID:63669-1740078000-1740083400@housmans.com SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Book Launch: MINING MEN by Emily Webber DESCRIPTION:WE APOLOGISE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES – IF YOU BOOKED A TICKET YOU WILL BE CONTACTED SHORTLY\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe are thrilled to be welcoming Emily P. Webber to the shop to launch her facinating\, and often deeply moving story of the last generation of British miners; told through the lives of the men who carved out their identities at the coalface. This is the story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons\, brothers and comrades\, big hitters and broken men\, strikers and scabs. Men for whom the masculine world of the pit was all they had ever known\, who reluctantly emerged into the daylight for the final time\, and others who were happier to consign the dust and darkness to the past. \n\n\n\nIt reveals the emotional impact of pit closures and what happened next; former miners who became factory workers; detectives; driving instructors; counsellors; the local mayor; one who even ended up working on Fleet Street. Featuring accounts from Ayrshire to the South Wales Valleys\, from the ‘People’s Republic of South Yorkshire’\, to the ‘Sunshine Corner Coalfields’ of East Kent\, each chapter offers a different perspective of the industry. For some of these men\, it is their first time opening up about the realities of life underground. \n\n\n\nBritain’s last deep coal mine closed in 2015\, yet just fifty years ago the mining industry was a juggernaut\, employing over 250\,000 workers. Combining new personal interviews with extensive archival research\, Emily P. Webber illuminates the extraordinary history of the industry once considered the backbone of Britain. \n\n\n\nBy situating the miners’ strike of 1984–85 in a longer history of the coalfields\, we can understand why miners and their families fought so hard against pit closures\, and their effect on these men and their communities once the pit wheels stopped turning. Vivid\, evocative\, and richly alive with minute detail\, Mining Men explores what the mining industry once meant to its workers and their communities\, and what Britain lost when it was gone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily P. Webber completed a PhD at the University of Reading & University of Exeter\, her research focused on masculinity and the British mining industry\, from nationalisation in 1947 to pit closures. \n\n\n\nBorn in South Yorkshire\, Emily has spoken to over a hundred former miners over the last five years\, collecting their memories of the industry and travelling to their communities. She was previously the Research Manager at the Imperial War Museum and contributed to several public-facing publications\, including as assistant curator for the award-winning Holocaust Exhibition. She is passionate about bringing history to wider audiences\, being recently selected as one of fifteen successful candidates for the Television Festival’s TV PhD talent scheme. Emily has previously had her work published in History Workshop\, Journal\, Contemporary British History and Twentieth Century History. \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-mining-men-by-emily-webber/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Mining-Men-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR