Events
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BOOK LAUNCH: ‘A Studious Use’ with Giovanni Marmont
A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons. Join us for some radical thinking, some real radical autonomist thinking, with one of our favourite publishers, Minor Compositions. Come and celebrate the publication of another vital, alert and mind bending work of theory. A Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities at […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: POLICING THE BEATS: Lambros Fatsis in conversation with Adèle Oliver
Policing the beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice We are absolutely delighted to welcome Lambros Fatsis to Housmans to discuss the criminalizing of black culture, music and youth. We are thrilled also to welcome back the brilliant Adèle Oliver, author of 'Deeping it: Colonialism, Culture and Criminalisation of UK Drill', to interview Lambros about […]
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NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES
FeaturedNEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES: CHRISTINE DONOVAN & TOM VAGUE IN CONVERSATION Join us for a conversation between two of the most brilliant writers of psychogeography working the country at the moment as […]
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DOG SECTION PRESS PRESENTS: FEMINISMS
Dog Section Press presents an evening of poetry, words and music in celebration of their recent publication: Feminisms. Curated and hosted by Antonia May Cross, featuring book contributors Janey Starling (Yakkie band) & Abu Leila (London Renters Union) and music and poetry from Dream Date and Alice Brady. Feminisms is a collection of ten essays from a diverse milieu of writers […]
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PUBLIC LECTURE: Laurence Housman and the Women’s Suffrage Movement
FeaturedLearn about Housmans' namesake and his efforts to fight for women's suffrage. This free talk is in collaboration UCL, who hold the Laurence Housman archive. Personal items of Housman's taken from the archive will be on display. This public lecture will explore Housmans Bookshop namesake Laurence Housman (1865-1958) and his active role in the women's […]
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BOOK TALK: The Journal of a Kurdish Political Prisoner
FeaturedJoin for a discussion of the journal of Kurdish revolutionary, Ali Poyraz. He spent twenty-one years and four months in Turkish prisons. He was born in 1962 in Bozüyük, an […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: PRIVATISING HUMANITY BY KATE BAYLIS
JOIN KATE BAYLIS AND ADRIENNE BULLER FOR AN ESSENTIAL CONVERSATON ON HOW BASIC HUMAN NEEDS BECOME FINANCIAL ASSETS. Privatising Humanity is a powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic […]
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BOOK TALK: PUNK SPIRIT!
FeaturedAN ORAL HISTORY OF PUNK ROCK, SPIRITUALITY AND LIBERATION We are super excited to welcome John Malkin over from California to talk about his incredible, and as far as we […]
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SOLD OUT: REVOLUTIONARY FORGIVENESS: D. K. RENTON in conversation with Barnaby Raine
FeaturedTHIS EVENT IT NOW SOLD OUT. TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.COM Housmans are delighted to welcome the legendary theorist, thinker and lawyer D.K. Renton to […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: THE ASSET CLASS: HETTIE O’BRIEN IN CONVERSATION WITH DAN HANCOX
Featured'PART WAKE-UP CALL, PART FINANCIAL THRILLER' (SHAMI CHAKRABARTI) The Asset Class is an equal parts thrilling and enraging work of vital financial journalism, lifting the lid on the relentlessly destructive […]
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‘Bored Stiff: the punk ‘zine and scene that refused to die’ an evening with Terry Macalister, Gaye Advert and Emilia Elfrida
FREE ENTRY BUT PLEASE RSVP USING THE FROM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE This event celebrates a Bored Stiff book half a century after a fanzine of that name burst into life at the height of the punk "explosion." Original creator Terry Macalister has brought together in contemporary time a group of musicians, photographers […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: The Forest Fights Back with Jessica den Outer
Join Us For A Discussion Of A Global Movement for the Rights of Nature with Jessica den Outer in conversation with Grant Wilson As the world grapples with the escalating […]
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HAJAR READS
‘At this, the man turned in their direction and smiled; he played not for the dream of success but because this new world necessitated beauty of all kinds. The new world was not just labour, but labour for the sake of life-making.’ — Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Join us for Hajar Reads: Play. […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: THE PLOT IS ON FIRE: Manuela Zechner in conversation with Max Haiven
FeaturedWe are delighted to welcome Manuela Zechner to Housmans to talk about her truly original and radical work in postcolonial eco-theory. As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the […]
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HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES
INTRODUCING THE FIRST IN OUR POET’S PROSE SEQUENCE We are delighted to welcome two extremely exciting poets to Housmans for the first installment of our Summer Poetry Series. This season we’re going to be doing something a bit different and focusing instead on the work that poets produce outside of ‘traditional’ lyric modes; focusing instead on prose; […]
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