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:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234655 CREATED:20220307T155159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220531T103856Z UID:40135-1654110000-1654115400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Expansion Rebellion with Celeste Hicks [online event] DESCRIPTION:This is is a story of hope in the face of widespread consternation over the global climate crisis. For many people concerned about global warming\, the 2018 vote by UK parliamentarians to proceed with the plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport was a devastating blow. Aviation was predicted to make up some 25% of the UK’s carbon emissions by 2050 and so the decision seemed to fly in the face of the UK’s commitment to be a climate leader. \n\n\n\nCan the UK expand Heathrow airport\, bringing in 700 extra planes a day\, and still stay within ambitious carbon budgets? One legal case sought to answer this question. Campaigning lawyers argued that plans for a third runway at one of the world’s busiest airports would jeopardise the UK’s ability to meet its commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. \n\n\n\nThis book traces the dramatic story of how the case was prepared – and why international aviation has for so long avoided meaningful limits on its expansion. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nCeleste Hicks is a freelance journalist and author. She was the BBC correspondent in Chad for many years and has lived in Chad\, Mali\, and Somalia. \n\n\n\nAlethea Warrington is a campaigns manager at climate charity Possible\, which works on positive\, practical action on climate change. Ali leads on Possible’s work on energy decarbonisation and cutting emissions from aviation. Her aviation work includes managing published research projects on consumer travel choices and job creation from a modal shift away from plane travel\, running Possible’s campaign for a frequent flyer levy and managing Possible’s ongoing research project with Chatham House quantifying the potential for technological solutions to decarbonise aviation. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. 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URL:https://housmans.com/event/expansion-rebellion-with-celeste-hicks-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/9781526162359.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220606T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220606T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234655 CREATED:20220516T103641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T140146Z UID:41280-1654542000-1654547400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Girl Online with Joanna Walsh DESCRIPTION:What happens when a woman goes online? She becomes a girl. \n\n\n\nThe unwritten contract of the internet\, that a user is what is used\, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to appear. Invited to self-construct as ‘girls online’\, vloggers\, bloggers and influencers sign a devil’s bargain: a platform on the condition they commodify themselves\, eternally youthful\, cute and responsibility-free\, hiding offline domestic\, professional and emotional labour while paying for their online presence with ‘accounts’ of personal ‘experience’. Can a Girl Online use these platforms not only to escape meatspace oppressions\, but as spaces for survival\, creativity and resistance? \n\n\n\nTold via the arresting personal narrative of one woman negotiating the (cyber)space between her identities as girl\, mother\, writer\, and commodified online persona\, Girl Online is written in a plethora of the online styles\, from programming language to the blog/diary\, from tweets to lyric prose\, taking in selfies\, social media\, celebrity and Cyberfeminism. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nJoanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer for print\, digital and performance. The author of seven books\, including Hotel\, Vertigo\, Worlds from the Word’s End and Break*up she also works as a critic\, editor\, teacher and arts activist. She is a UK Arts Foundation fellow\, and the recipient of the Markievicz Award in the Republic of Ireland. She founded and ran #readwomen (2014-18)\, described by the New York Times as “a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers” and currently runs @noentry_arts. \n\n\n\nJuliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published three books: Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study (Dalkey Archive\, 2007); Trans: A Memoir (Verso\, 2015); and a volume of short stories\, Variations (Influx Press\, 2021). Her fourth\, Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021\, is due out on Cipher Press in July 2022. Her work has appeared in the Guardian\, for whom she documented her gender reassignment in a series entitled A Transgender Journey (2010-12) as well as London Review of Books\, Granta\, Sight & Sound\, Frieze\, Art Review\, New York Times\, The Washington Post\, TimeOut\, The New Statesman and many other places. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. 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URL:https://housmans.com/event/girl-online-with-joanna-walsh/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/9781839765353.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220608T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220608T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234655 CREATED:20220516T142411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T103735Z UID:41291-1654714800-1654720200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Tenants with Vicky Spratt DESCRIPTION:The urgent story of this country’s biggest crisis\, told through the lives of those it most affects \n\n\n\nTony is facing eviction instead of enjoying retirement; Limarra isn’t ‘homeless enough’ to get help from the council; and for Kelly and her asthmatic son Morgan\, another new rented house is a matter of life and death. This is twenty-first century Britain\, where millions are forced into the private rental sector – a sector that creates profit for landlords\, not safe and stable homes for tenants. \n\n\n\nIn this fierce and moving account\, journalist Vicky Spratt traces decades of bad policy decisions to show how and why the British dream of homeownership has withered and the safety net of social housing has broken. Through the lives of those in the renting trap\, she illuminates the ways this crisis is devastating our health\, communities and political landscape. But\, as the Covid epidemic showed\, there are also real\, radical steps we can take to give everyone the chance of a good home. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nVicky Spratt is a journalist whose work regularly shapes public policy. Her 2016 campaign ‘Make Renting Fair’ led to letting fees in England and Wales being banned\, and she has spoken at political conferences\, all-party parliamentary groups and panels across the country on the issue of housing. She has appeared on BBC News\, Newsnight\, Woman’s Hour\, Radio 4 and NTS Radio. In 2020\, she was nominated as Journalist of the Year at the Drum Awards for Online Media\, and in 2021 her stories delving deep into Britain’s housing emergency saw her shortlisted for a British Journalism award. She is currently the i Paper’s Housing Correspondent and a writer and editor at Refinery29. \n\n\n\nNick Bano is a tenants’ rights lawyer and campaigner. He writes regularly about the housing crisis for Tribune and other publications\, and is currently writing a book. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\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/tenants-with-vicky-spratt/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/9781788161275.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234655 CREATED:20220516T141501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T140049Z UID:41285-1655319600-1655325000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Charged with Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone DESCRIPTION:Who do the police protect? An investigation into 40 years of battling protest that reveals a hidden police agenda against dissent. \n\n\n\nCharged is an essential investigation into the role of policing protest in Britain today. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of dissent\, in their pursuit of more control\, how do the police manage crowds\, provoke violence and even break the law? \n\n\n\nSince the 1980s under successive governments the police have been allowed to suppress protests\, using aggressive tactics—from batons to horse charges to kettling. The landscape of how police deal with protest changed following criticism of the police during the 1981 Brixton riots. New military-style tactics were sanctioned by the Thatcher government\, in secret. Over the next forty years those protesting against racism\, unfair job losses\, draconian laws\, or for environmental protection were subject to brutal tactics. In the aftermath\, media attention denigrates protesters while the police are praised and continue to act with impunity. \n\n\n\nLooking through these moments of conflict widens our understanding of policing public order to reveal the true character of the state. Since the 1980s successive governments\, from Thatcher to Johnson\, covertly plot to suppress protests\, using standardised aggressive tactics\, from batons to horse charges to kettling. Through undisclosed documents and eyewitness accounts the authors reveal organised police violence against miners at Orgreave\, print workers at Warrington\, anti poll tax campaigners\, student protestors and Black Lives Matter. The voices of protesters have been undeterred. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nMatt Foot is a criminal defence Solicitor. He specialises in representing protestors and victims of miscarriages of justice. As a campaigning lawyer\, he co-founded Justice Alliance to protect legal aid and Asbo Concern. He has also written in the Guardian and the London Review of Books. \n\n\n\nMorag Livingstone is an award-winning documentary filmmaker\, writer and internationally published author. She is also a lecturer and tutor in photojournalism\, moving image and storytelling. \n\n\n\nJoe Rollin is an organiser in Unite the Unions National Organising and Leverage Department and a founding member of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\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/charged-with-matt-foot-and-morag-livingstone/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/9781839762499-f35f3425f1355e00d6c9ff443c0b623f.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220621T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220621T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234655 CREATED:20220607T132645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T132647Z UID:41773-1655838000-1655843400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Doreen Massey: Selected Political Writings DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Lawrence Wishart Books\n\n\n\nDoreen Massey was one of the most influential human geographers of the post-war period. A key feminist and socialist thinker\, she brought geographical inequality to the fore of left politics. Through her activism\, she combined a focus on class with a prescient awareness of its intersections with gender\, race and sexuality.This book is a collection of Doreen Massey’s essential political writings\, from reflections on support groups during the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike to assessments of the Sandinistas’ spatial policies and ownership campaigns relating to Liverpool Football Club. It gives a vivid sense of Massey’s dynamic style as a left public intellectual whose work impacted major political initiatives\, and introduces her important ‘politics of place’ to a new generation of activists. \n\n\n\nDoreen Massey was a pioneering radical geographer\, theorist and activist\, whose work challenged how we understand space\, place and power. This collection of her writings brings together articles on social justice and previously un-digitised essays\, for a fresh insight into Massey’s political commitments. It aims to give geographers a better sense of her political commitments while introducing her theory of location to a new generation of social justice activists. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDavid Featherstone is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Resistance\, Space and Political Identities: the Making of Counter-Global Networks and Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism. He is a member of the editorial collectives of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography and Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. He holds a PhD from the Open University. \n\n\n\nDiarmaid Kelliher is a postdoctoral researcher and trade unionist at the University of Glasgow. His book\, Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike was published by Routledge in May 2021. \n\n\n\nHilary Wainwright is co-editor of Red Pepper and research director of the New Politics Project of the Transnational Institute\, Amsterdam. Her most recent books include Public Service Reform: But Not As We Know It! (Compass/UNISON) and Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Seagull). \n\n\n\nDr Ulises Moreno-Tabarez is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. He is also a Research Associate for LSE London and Associated Academic at the Latin American and Caribbean Centre. He serves as a core Editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal City: Analysis of Urban Change\, Theory\, Action. He holds a PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies from the LSE. \n\n\n\nAmelia Horgan is a writer\, researcher and editor from London. She is currently a PhD candidate on work at the University of Essex’s School of Philosophy and Art History. Her first book\, Lost in Work (Pluto Press) came out in June 2021. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\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/doreen-massey-selected-political-writings/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LW_books_series_ops_2-pages-7_page-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220622T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220622T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234655 CREATED:20220307T152925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T160951Z UID:40130-1655924400-1655929800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Race to the Bottom: Reclaiming Antiracism\, with Azfar Shafi and Ilyas Nagdee [online event] DESCRIPTION:Antiracist movements are more mainstream than ever before. Liberal democracies boast of their policies designed to stamp out racism in all walks of life. Why then is racism still ever-present in our society? \n\n\n\nThis is not an accident\, but by design. Capitalism is structured by racism and has relentlessly attacked powerful movements. Race to the Bottom traces our current crisis back decades\, to the fragmentation of Britain’s Black Power movements and their absorption into NGOs and the Labour Party. \n\n\n\nThe authors call for recovering radical histories of antiracist struggle\, championing modern activism and infusing them with the urgency of our times: replacing anxieties over ‘unconscious bias’ and rival claims for ‘representation’ with the struggle for a new\, socialist\, multi-racial organising from below. \n\n\n\nPart of the Pluto Outspoken series. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAzfar Shafi is a researcher and organiser with a focus on policing\, counter-terrorism and imperialism. He has been published by the Transnational Institute and Novara Media\, and organised in movements against racism\, state violence and for the Palestinian liberation struggle. \n\n\n\nIlyas Nagdee is an activist and writer focusing on anti-racism\, civil liberties and policing. He has written for the Independent\, Guardian and HuffPost\, and has appeared on BBC\, ITV and Sky News. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\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/race-to-the-bottom-with-azfar-shafi-and-ilyas-nagdee-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rttb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220629T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220629T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234655 CREATED:20220516T143047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T143453Z UID:41297-1656529200-1656534600@housmans.com SUMMARY:High Desert with Andre Naffis-Sahely DESCRIPTION:High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare\, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast’s wildfire epidemic\, Naffis-Sahely’s reflections on class\, race\, and nationalism chart the region’s hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the recent pandemic. The poems in High Desert also revel in their rootlessness\, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the US\, travelling from Venice and Florence to Chittagong and St Petersburg\, tackling our turbulent times and the depths of its problems in searing\, extraordinary poems of witness and vision. \n\n\n\nHigh Desert is André Naffis-Sahely’s second collection\, following his debut The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin Books\, 2017)\, a gathering of portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: travellers\, labourers\, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. It includes poems from his recent pamphlet The Other Side of Nowhere (Rough Trade Books\, 2019). All his collections present poetry as reportage\, as much an act of memory as of sinuous\, clear-eyed vision. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAndré Naffis-Sahely is a poet\, editor and translator\, and editor of Poetry London. He is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Manchester Writing School in the UK\, and a Lecturer at University of California\, Davis\, in the US. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\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... 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