BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.18.1//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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T203000 DTSTAMP:20261006T150640Z CREATED:20261006T150636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T150640Z UID:83224-1794423600-1794429000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Revolution Under Construction: The SAAL Housing Process\, 1974–76 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of this illuminating study of one of the most remarkable housing initiatives in European history. With the author\, Sara Almodovar Pereira\, in conversation with architect and theorist Dr Dubravka Sekulić.\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n\nThe fall of the dictatorship in 1974 saw the start of Portugal’s revolutionary period and with it one of the most remarkable housing initiatives in European history. As an immediate response to the vast portion of the population living in slums and shanties\, the SAAL (Mobile Local Support Service) was established to equip impoverished people to build the new homes they needed. Initiated by architect Nuno Portas\, the SAAL connected citizens with planners\, architects\, engineers\, and builders to collaborate on the design and construction of new developments\, to be built on requisitioned sites as close as possible to the inhabitants’ former homes. The resulting estates were intimately informed by their inhabitants’ needs and hopes. Through their uniquely participatory process they developed a celebrated new architectural language. \n\n\n\nIn this book\, Sara Almodovar Pereira collects the experiences and reflections of those who participated in the SAAL\, reconstructing this extraordinary chapter in architectural and social history through the voices of those who were there\, at the protests and meetings\, on the building sites and barracks. The experiences recounted are revelatory\, demonstrating truly participatory architecture and offering new understandings of housing as right and provision\, far from prevailing paradigms and their perpetuated logic of ‘crisis’. This immersive oral history traces the unfolding of a historical moment at ground level and reminds us of ways of working and building that could transform the future. \n\n\n\nSara and Dubravka will talk for around 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 + 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-revolution-under-construction-the-saal-housing-process-1974-76/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/BOOK-TALK-The-Journal-of-a-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner1-edited.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261114T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261114T210000 DTSTAMP:20261012T162216Z CREATED:20261012T161211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261012T162216Z UID:83353-1794682800-1794690000@housmans.com SUMMARY:HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES x SPAM: Sam Rodilosso DESCRIPTION:SPAM Press presents: Fuse Box: Triple Sonnet Crown by Sam Rodilosso\n\n\n\nw/ readings from Luke Roberts & K Lewis Hood \n\n\n\nJoin us for a collaborative event with SPAM Press\, in celebration of Sam Rodilosso’s debut poetry book\, Fuse Box: Triple Sonnet Crown. There will be readings from K Lewis Hood\, Luke Roberts and Sam\, followed by a Q&A between Sam and Maria Sledmere.  \n\n\n\n‘“Fuse” may be one of my favorite crowns of all time-it as technically as close to perfection as any example of the form that I know. Sam Rodilosso proves himself a brilliant poet\, even now\, at the beginning of the journey.’ — David Keplinger  \n\n\n\n🌞 \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\n‘The sonnet is a fuse box’ in which ‘Lyricism | Wakes up in a cold sweat’. Welcome to Sam Rodilosso’s debut poetry book\, a 60pp fury which takes on ‘America’s Monster Project’ and the polycrisis of our current\, dilapidating epoch with intelligence and spirit. Fuse Box believes in the power of children to ‘make defence’ against ‘time’s scythe’ and mortality in general. Imagination is amplified by influence. As futurity collapses around us\, Rodilosso registers the damage of the present in every iamb of the sonnet’s ornate circuitry\, entwined in a triple crown of fuse / engrams / spectacle. This is a poetics of overload and what-the-fuckery\, a poetics of voltaic leap and conscientious noticing\, digital compression and confession. Fuse Box joins a global choir of people singing against extractivism\, exploitation\, hyper-militarism and neoliberal fascisms; it scintillates with the meltpoint of a crayola-drawn sun. Fuelled by his father’s saying\, I love you Sam\, I am time travelling through you\, the poet evinces an unwavering refusal of capitalist foreclosures and moves headlong towards a loving future.  \n\n\n\nOUR POETS AND OUR PRESS: \n\n\n\nBorn and raised on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis\, Maryland\, Sam Rodilosso studied International Relations and Creative Writing at American University in Washington D.C. before transferring to the University of Edinburgh to study English Literature. Since then\, he has received a certification to teach English from Cambridge University\, and has studied Chinese at Peking University. Sam is interested in the prospects of translation and global literary exchange. \n\n\n\nLuke Roberts is the author of Bad Omens (2026)\, Home Radio (2021)\, Glacial Decoys (2021) and other works of poetry and prose. Beginning to End will be published in 2027 by Nightboat Books. \n\n\n\nK Lewis Hood is a writer from the East Midlands\, currently living on the water in East London. Their poetry publications include Glitch Almanac\, an artist book with Martina O’Brien\, Bugbear (Veer2\, 2021)\, and infra·structure\, with Maria Sledmere (Broken Sleep Books\, 2020). With Pratyusha\, they co-edited the online ecopoetry journal amberflora. They teach English and Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. \n\n\n\nMaria Sledmere is managing editor at SPAM Press and a senior lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde. Her most recent publications are the ekphrastic pamphlet Scar Code (Weather Band\, 2026)\, and I don’t have things to tell you (Strange Region\, 2026)\, an epistolary collaboration with Mau Baiocco.  \n\n\n\nSPAM Press CIC is a Glasgow and London-based small poetry press\, publisher\, magazine and purveyor of literary reading series\, established in 2016. It is run by editors Kirsty Dunlop\, Maria Sledmere and Maya Uppal.  \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but please RSVP below. Please also feel free to 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/housmans-poetry-series-x-spam-sam-rodilosso/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Poetry-Series-SPAM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261116T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261116T210000 DTSTAMP:20261004T155701Z CREATED:20261004T155620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261004T155701Z UID:83142-1794855600-1794862800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: ALSTON MOOR by Anne Charnock DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the book launch of Alston Moor\, published by Goldsmiths Press. This a polyphonic novel creating a portrait over time of one of England’s most remote landscapes\, a landscape now suffering degradation and threatened by arson and wildfire.\n\n\n\nIn 1548\, Isabel and her father\, together with the priest in this poorest of parishes\, grapple with the chaos of the Protestant reformation. Enacted in far away centres of power\, the reforms turn daily life and religious traditions upside down. Statues\, images of the saints\, rosaries\, prayer books are burned. Massesfor the dead are denounced as the corrupt practice of a money-grubbing clergy. Isabel holds fast to the old ways. But at her summering ground she encounters the more-worldly cattle drovers who fall into rebellious talk. Surely there are no protestant sympathisers in her parish. \n\n\n\nToday\, in equally tumultuous and disruptive times\, a grieving Elizabeth and her scientist team attempt to right the ecological wrongs and profligacy of the industrial era – the pollution\, the age-old tradition of peat cutting for fuel\, the draining of peat bogs for cultivation and the spread of sitka spruce plantations. The peatlands offer a climate life-line and there is no time to lose. The novel interrogates how society confronts crisis\, whether through science\, faith or ritual\,and how landscape bears witness to human struggle across the centuries. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to be hosting the launch of the award winning science-fiction writer Anne Charnock’s new work of deeply stirring experimental fiction. Alston Moor is an elegiac\, beautiful novel that combines historical and speculative fiction with ecological thought and serves as a powerful ruminations on landscape and futurity. \n\n\n\nAnne will be conversation with fellow celebrated writer Sandra Newman\, author of Julia: a novel\, The Men and other incredible works. There will be readings\, discussion and some mingling afterwards. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nAnne Charnock is the author of four novels. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Dreams Before the Start of Time. Her debut\, A Calculated Life\, was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award. During her career in foreign journalism\, her reports appeared in New Scientist and The Guardian. \n\n\n\nSandra Newman was born in America but has lived in Germany\, Russia\, Malaysia\, and England. Her professions have ranged from academia to professional gambling. She studied Creative Writing at UEA\, and her first novel\, The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done\, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Her second novel\, Cake\, was published by Chatto in 2007. In 2009 she co-wrote How NOT to Write a Novel\, and in 2019\, The Heavens. Her third novel\, The country of Ice Cream Star 2014\, was nominated for the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her next novel\, The Men\, was published in 2022\, with Julia\, Sandra’s feminist retelling of George Orwell’s dystopian classic\, 1984\, following soon afterward. She currently lives in New York. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but please do RSVP using the link below. Drinks and snack will be provided but you may also bring your own if you wish. \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-alston-moor-by-anne-charnock/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/alston-moor-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261118T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261118T203000 DTSTAMP:20261008T153138Z CREATED:20261005T120156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261008T153138Z UID:83164-1795028400-1795033800@housmans.com SUMMARY:DISCUSSION & FILM SCREENING: BLACK BRITONS\, RACE\, AND POLICING DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the seminal documentary work\, BLACKS BRITANNICA\, and to also celebrate the publications of Bisi Akintoye’s incredible new history of the Black British experience and policing. Featuring Bisi Akintoye and chaired by Dr Remy-Paulin Twahirwa.\n\n\n\nBlacks Britannica (1978) is a landmark documentary examining the experiences of Black communities in Britain during the 1970s. Through interviews and contemporary footage\, the film explores racism\, policing\, immigration\, employment and resistance\, capturing a period of intense political struggle over race and belonging. Its account of Black British life provides a powerful historical backdrop to continuing debates about racialised policing\, citizenship and the relationship between Black communities and the state. \n\n\n\nBisi Akintoye’s new book\, Black Britons\, Race\, and Policing: The Long Shadow\, explores the historical and contemporary policing of Black communities in Britain\, revealing how much has — and hasn’t — changed. Drawing on 58 interviews with young people\, elders\, and community workers in a heavily policed North London neighbourhood\, it offers a powerful\, intergenerational account of racialised policing and its everyday consequences. Through an intersectional lens\, it examines how race\, gender\, class\, and place overlap to shape Black Britons’ encounters with police and their sense of belonging. Through the voices of those most affected\, the book traces how these experiences have produced enduring cultural narratives of mistrust\, resistance\, and exclusion. Exposing how policing continues to racialise and criminalise certain communities designated suspect status\, it connects these practices to the legacies of empire and the politics of othering. It concludes by considering what these histories mean for the present and future of police-community relations and offers practical recommendations for building trust\, accountability\, and justice. \n\n\n\nTo celebrate the launch of this vital new book we welcome Bisi will be in conversation with Dr Remy-Paulin Twahirwa; the two will draw out key themes from the documentary and Bisi’s vital book. Expect illuminating discussion and some drinks and snacks. We look forward to seeing 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\nPlease note copies of the book will be for sale on the night. \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\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/panel-black-britons-race-and-policing/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/978-3-032-11662-8-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261121T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261121T203000 DTSTAMP:20261008T160530Z CREATED:20261005T130505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261008T160530Z UID:83176-1795287600-1795293000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: REBEL FOOTPRINTS with DAVID ROSENBERG DESCRIPTION:COME AND HELP US CELEBRATE THE THIRD EDITION OF DAVID ROSENBERG’S PASSIONATE ODE TO LONDON’S RADICAL GEOGRAPHIES! \n\n\n\nThe radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides\, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners\, David Rosenberg tells the story of protest and struggle in London from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. \n\n\n\nFrom the suffragettes to the socialists\, from the Chartists to the trade unionists\, the book invites us to step into the footprints of a diverse cast of dedicated fighters for social justice. \n\n\n\nSelf-directed walks pair with narratives that seamlessly blend history\, politics and geography\, and beautifully illustrated maps immerse the reader in the story of the city. Whether you are visiting it for the first time\, or born and raised in it\, Rosenberg invites you to see London as you never have before: the nation’s capital as its radical centre. \n\n\n\nNow in its 3rd edition\, this radical walking guide has moved proved to be one of our most popular titles. Book a ticket now to avoid disappointment! \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-rebel-footprints-with-david-rosenberg/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/9780745351810.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR