Events
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POETRY READING: NAT RAHA launches ‘apparitions (nines)’
FeaturedWe are very, very excited to be welcoming the legendary poet Nat Raha to Housmans for the official UK launch of her new book, apparitions (nines). A vital figure in UK, and wider Anglophone, vanguardist poetry for many years Raha's newest experiment in lyric writing promises to be characteristically invigorating. Reading alongside Nat we'll have […]
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Women Without Children: Nicole Louie in conversation with Rose Diell
We are very happy to welcome Nicole Louie and Rose Diell to the shop to discuss their brilliant work. Nicole's wonderful recent book Others Like Me is the story of fourteen women around the world, from different walks of life, who don’t have children. It’s also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Your Right To Protest by Christian Weaver
FeaturedHousmans are very excited to be welcoming Christian Weaver to shop to celebrate the official launch of his vital new book Your Right To Protest. Christian is a human rights barrister, social justice campaigner. His first book The Law In 60 Seconds: A Pocket Guide To Your Rights, has been a long time staple of […]
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BOOK TALK: Nic Watts & Sakina Karimjee discuss Toussaint Louverture
Housmans are thrilled to be welcoming Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee to the shop to discuss their American Book Award winning, and The American Library in Paris Book Award longlisted, adaption of C.L.R. James's celebrate play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History. PERHAPS THE GREATEST VICTORY OF THE OPPRESSED […]
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POETRY READING: Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit launches TONGUELESS
Housmans are delighted to welcome the brilliant Out-Spoken Press to the shop to celebrate the launch of Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit's brilliant new pamphlet Tongueless. Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit is a Kurdish writer and poet. She is trilingual, her poetry probes the themes of language, exile and womanhood. Amongst other places, her work has been published in […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: FROM THE ASHES by Sarah Jaffe
Housmans are very excited indeed to be welcoming one of our most beloved authors to the shop, Sarah Jaffe, for the UK launch of her excoriating, thrilling and moving new work of non-fiction: From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, of unraveling […]
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COMING OUT OF MY SKIN book reading and discussion between author Jean-Baptiste Phou and Dr Rohit K
This event is organised externally - visit the Eventbrite page for more information and to reserve a place: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/coming-out-of-my-skin-book-reading-and-discussion-between-author-jean-baptiste-phou-and-dr-rohit-k-tickets-1015892510847?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
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BOOK LAUNCH: BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY by Benjamin Barson
FeaturedThis is gonna be a good one...Jazz! Theory! LIVE MUSIC!! Housmans will be hosting the wonderful scholar and musician Benjamin Barson for the official UK launch of his seminal new book, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons. A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: ‘The Picture of Contented New Wealth’ – Tariq Godard in conversation with Alex Niven
FeaturedIt's spooky season! Help us celebrate All Hallows Eve by welcoming Tariq Godard to the shop for the (re)launch of his acclaimed work of political horror: The Picture of Contented New Wealth. One of the most important and era defining satires on Neoliberal Britain written during the dying days of New Labour, and anticipating, in […]
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BOOK TALK: Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music by Toby Manning
Housmans are very excited to be welcoming the brilliant Toby Manning to the shop to discuss his fantastic and all encompassing new tome: Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music. A radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years, told through the period’s most popular music. Mixing […]
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[CANCELLED] Sheila Rowbotham – Reasons to Rebel, the 1980s revisited
CANCELLED: We regret that due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to cancel this event. We hope to reschedule at a later date. We welcome back to Housmans Sheila Rowbotham to dissect the 1980s, to go through her own “reasons to rebel” and discuss the outcome of that rebellion. It was the worst of times, […]
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An evening with Richard Seymour
FeaturedHousmans are thrilled to be welcoming Richard Seymour to the shop for a double book launch! Richard is one of the country's pre-eminent leftist thinkers and writers and we are extremely lucky to help celebrate his latest polemic, from Verso, Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization as well as the new paperback re-issue of […]
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BOOK TALK: ‘Monstrous Anger of the Guns’ – ANDREW FEINSTEIN in conversation with VIJAY PRASHAD
PEACE ACTIVISTS UNCOVER THE TRUTH OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE BUSINESS IN THE WORLD Equips readers with the information they need to resist the lies that feed humanity's urge to commit suicide. Read it!' - Yanis Varoufakis Housmans are very excited to welcome the legendary ANDREW FEINSTEIN and VIJAY PRASHAD to the shop discuss a vital […]
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BOOK DISCUSSION: ‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ – Martin Shaw in conversation with Kate Hudson
Help us celebrate the publication of Professor Martin Shaw's 'whirlwind tour' of the CND and its history, a organistion very close to Housman's heart, culturally and historically intertwined with us and the larger peace movement. The launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: ‘Colin Ward: the anarchist tradition and do-it-yourself urbanism’ with Verity-Jane Keefe and Ken Worpole
AUTONOMY NOW! PRESENT: 'Colin Ward: the anarchist tradition and do-it-yourself urbanism' with Verity-Jane Keefe and Ken Worpole ENTRY FOR THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT PLEASE RSVP USING THE LINK AT BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE 2024 marks the centenary of the birth of Britain’s most famous anarchist, Colin Ward, and the publication of Mutual Aid, Everyday Anarchy: Essays […]
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