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:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200318T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200318T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20200116T131656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T182853Z UID:9966-1584558000-1584563400@housmans.com SUMMARY:A Kingdom of Love: Rachel Mann in conversation with Roz Kaveney ***CANCELLED*** DESCRIPTION:***We’re really sorry to hear that our speaker Rachel Mann is presenting symptoms and is self-isolating. This event is now therefore cancelled. Tickets will be refunded. We hope Rachel feels better soon*** \nWe are very excited to announce a poetry event at Housmans in collaboration with Carcanet Press\, one of the outstanding independent literary publishers of classical and modern poetry of our time. \nAnglican priest\, poet\, writer and broadcaster Rachel Mann will be reading from her highly praised A Kingdom of Love\, a lyrical interrogation of the place of the sacred and profane in a demythologised world. Whilst framed within the language of Christianity\, Mann interrogates the dominant linguistic and mythic inheritances of religious discourse. Furthermore\, she writes of connection and of faith in a way that will resonate with non-religious readers. A meditation also on the spiritual vs. the material\, Mann eschews didacticism in A Kingdom of Love and urges us through her verses to reflect on the ways in which we can connect with one another and move forward in these difficult times. \nAfter a reading from A Kingdom of Love\, Rachel will be in conversation with writer\, critic\, and poet the brilliant Roz Kaveney about all things sacred and profane. \nReviews \nThis book has a great deal to offer those who don’t believe in a god; strength\, connection\, the time taken to slow down and reflect on how we relate to others\, and how we can continue to move forward on both difficult days and joyous ones… These are poems to sit with\, to linger over.’ \nDianne Mulholland \n‘This collection by Anglican priest and poet Rachel Mann is richly lyrical and textured … These poems are certainly food for thought\, but they neither pontificate nor patronise … wry and poignant and reflective by turns’\nSarah Law\, Stride magazine: ‘Liturgy\, Litany and Lyric’ \n‘A Kingdom of Love is a stirring set of poems\, vibrant\, gentle\, yet at times has the ability to make the reader aware of their surroundings\, a mild shaking of sorts’\nThe Bobsphere\n \n‘This is a beautiful\, incantatory free verse that sparkles with alliteration and allusions’\nBookishBeck\n \n‘A Kingdom of Love is a hard-won book of wonders. Poem after poem works at the edge of what language can describe or explore – the nature of belief\, the presence and absence of God\, the rituals and reality of death\, suffering and above all\, love. It is a mesmerising debut.’\nMichael Symmons Roberts \nSpeakers \nRachel Mann is an Anglican parish priest and writer. She was Poet-in-Residence at Manchester Cathedral between 2009 and 2017 and is the author of five books\, including Fierce Imaginings: The Great War\, Ritual\, Memory and God (DLT 2017). She is Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing and English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry was anthologised in Carcanet’s New Poetries VII (2018). \nIn addition she writes on music\, particularly prog\, folk and metal. She was Metal/Rock reviewer for manchestermusic.co.uk. She works freelance for magazines like Prog Magazine and The Quietus. \nRoz Kaveney is a poet\, novelist and critic living in London. Her novel of trans street life in the 70s TINY PIECES OF SKULL won a Lambda in 2016\, her versions of Catullus have been widely praised. \n**Please note that tickets are Standard £3 (value redeemable against purchase)\, Unwaged £1 (value redeemable against purchase) and Solidarity £5. Housmans Bookshop is a not-for-profit organisation. Your support is greatly appreciated** \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/a-kingdom-of-love-rachel-mann-in-conversation-with-roz-kaveney/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/kingdom-of-love.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200326T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200326T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20200228T115619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200318T143347Z UID:11504-1585249200-1585254600@housmans.com SUMMARY:AUTONOMY NOW! presents: 'Dead White Anarchists' performed by Paul Case ***RELOCATED*** DESCRIPTION:**This event is no longer taking place at Housmans but the organisers hope to host it at an alternative venue – please visit the Autonomy Now website for updates** \nParis\, 1892. If you’re not rich\, things looks bleak. Exploitation\, starvation and disease are daily realities for many. Police crackdowns and political bombings tear the city apart. Out of this chaos emerges Emile Henry\, a young anarchist preparing for his war against the State. But when he hears strange rumblings from the future\, madness beckons… \nPaul Case’s Dead White Anarchists is a Molotov cocktail of storytelling\, theatre\, radical history lesson\, sci crime thriller and revolutionary psychedelic death trip. It is a reflection on a bloody past and a chaotic present\, but always holding hope for tomorrow. \nWritten and performed by Paul Case\nDirected by Emily Ingram \nBIOS \nPaul Case is an Edinburgh-based spoken word performer\, actor and writer. He has performed his poems\, stories\, songs and monologues all over the UK and internationally since 2008. His writing has been published by Influx Press\, Class War and The Erotic Review amongst many others. He is currently touring his solo theatre show Dead White Anarchists throughout 2020. \nEmily Ingram is an emerging director and writer\, specialising in primarily in prop work and productions that tread the line between theatre and storytelling. She is a member of Birds Of Paradise’s Young Artists scheme and the creator of Some Kind of Theatre’s Theatre On The Sofa project\, a scheme which brings theatre to non-traditional venues. Recent credits include the widely praised The Grandmothers Grimm (Buxton Festival Fringe\, Southwark Playhouse\, Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and The Sprite In The Dolls House (Assembly Roxy\, The Palace of Holyroodhouse) \nPRAISE \n[Paul] is at times drily humourous\, then again petulent or dramatic. The audience are rapt\, enlisted for the cause” – allthesenewrelations.com \n“You wouldn’t believe the passion. Put a big smile on my face and that’s no mean feat. Blinding!” – Steve Ignorant\, CRASS/Slice of Life \n“An amazing performer” Kev McLean\, Loud Poets \n“Funny and poignant” – Pete ‘The Temp’ Bearder\, author of Stage Invasion \n“Paul Case is a supremely talented writer and performer carrying on the rich tradition of radical poetry in the UK” – The Repeat Beat Poet \n“One of the best of a new generation” – Attila The Stockbroker \nFacebook: facebook.com/paulcasespeaks \nWebsite: http://www.paulcasespeaks.co.uk \nTwitter: https://twitter.com/captainrant \nStorytelling show Dead White Anarchists: facebook.com/deadwhiteanarchists \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/autonomy-now-presents-dead-white-anarchists-performed-by-paul-case/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/DeadWhiteAnarchists.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200328T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200328T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20200218T155614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T170008Z UID:11118-1585422000-1585427400@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Spain's Revolution Against Franco: The Great Betrayal' with Alan Woods ***CANCELLED*** DESCRIPTION:The story of the Spanish revolution of the 1930s is quite well known to most people on the left\, but there is a surprising level of ignorance concerning the events that occurred subsequently. History did not cease with the victory of Franco in 1939. And the story of how the Franco dictatorship was eventually brought down by the revolutionary movement of the Spanish workers is an inspiring one. \nUnder the most difficult and dangerous conditions\, Spanish workers launched a strike wave\, which\, in its intensity and duration\, has no parallel anywhere. There was nothing remotely like this in Hitler’s Germany\, Mussolini’s Italy or Salazar’s Portugal. This was a genuine revolution\, which could and should have gone far further than it did. If it did not finally succeed\, that was no fault of the working class. The Spanish revolution of the 1970s was shamefully betrayed by the leaders of the communist and socialist parties\, who entered into an agreement with former fascists in order halt the movement in its tracks. \nAlan Woods participated personally in the last phase of this struggle and was a witness to some of its most decisive moments. Using a wealth of documentary material from the time and also new interviews with key participants in the events\, he tears away the thick veil of lies\, myths and half-truths to reveal what actually occurred. \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/spains-revolution-against-franco-the-great-betrayal-with-alan-woods/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Spanish_transition_great_betrayal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200331T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200331T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20200228T114945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200318T143200Z UID:11496-1585681200-1585686600@housmans.com SUMMARY:AUTONOMY NOW! presents: 'Stopping the Poll Tax: 30 Years On' with Martin Lux and Alex Hodson ***RELOCATED*** DESCRIPTION:**This event is no longer taking place at Housmans but the organisers hope to host it at an alternative venue – please visit the Autonomy Now website for updates** \n  \nJoin us on the 30th anniversary of the Poll Tax riot which helped drive out Margaret Thatcher from power.\nFind out about the crucial local level campaigning work that led up to the crunch point of the riot\, and how a combination of Police provocation and government incompetence helped turn a popular mass demonstration into a full-scale battle which spilled out across the West End\, leading to the downfall of one of the UK’s longest-serving and most authoritarian Prime Ministers. \nSpeakers include Martin Lux of Red and Black TV\, Alex Hodson of Past Tense\, plus another guest tba. Martin and Alex observed the tumultuous day close-up. Alex was also involved with the Trafalgar Square Defendants Campaign and the Poll Tax prisoners group. \nFREE ENTRY \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/autonomy-now-presents-stopping-the-poll-tax-30-years-on-with-martin-lux-and-alex-hodson/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/PollTax.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200401T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200401T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20200218T165236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T165622Z UID:11132-1585767600-1585773000@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Split: Class Divides Uncovered' with Ben Tippet ***CANCELLED*** DESCRIPTION:‘More than a decade after the financial crisis\, Split is a timely reminder of the most important divide that runs through the global economy\, and how working people can organise to take back control of their lives. Clearly-argued\, incisive and accessible\, this book should be required reading for activists everywhere’\n– Grace Blakeley\, author of ‘Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation’ \n‘This book is essential reading for making sense of society\, digging into the realities of class for young people today. It shows how deeply Britain is shaped by class\, while also charting out ways people can collectively change this’\n– Jamie Woodcock\, co-author of ‘The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction’ \n‘Neoliberal ideology hinges on the claim that class no longer matters – but as inequalities rise to unprecedented extremes\, class divisions are now more prominent than ever. Split is packed with fresh insights into how class structures our world\, and what we can do to build a fairer economy’\n– Jason Hickel\, author of ‘The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets’ \n‘Split is an essential introduction to the dimensions of class division that have shaped the modern world. If you want to understand why society has become ever more polarised\, and how we might go about fixing it\, read this book’\n– Laurie Macfarlane\, Economics Editor at openDemocracy and co-author of ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’ \n‘Intelligent\, lucid and engaging from beginning to end\, Tippet’s book is a must-read for those who want to learn the root cause of pervasive inequality that defines our world’\n– Brett Scott\, author of ‘The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money’ \n  \nBen Tippet is an educator\, activist\, and writer. He is currently doing a PhD at the University of Greenwich\, researching the causes of wealth inequality in the UK. He is a researcher for The Transnational Institute and has written for Novara\, Stike! and Economy. \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/split-class-divides-uncovered-with-ben-tippet/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SPLIT.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200406T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200406T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20200316T105047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T170135Z UID:11997-1586199600-1586205000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: On Relationships ***POSTPONED*** DESCRIPTION:  \nRelationships are important. Whether they are with others or ourselves\, they shape us\, they move us\, they empower us and they break our hearts. 3 of Cups Press launches their latest anthology\, On Relationships\, a collection of prose\, poetry and art which explores the importance and power of all relationships. \nJoin us on the 6 of April to launch On Relationships with readings from Vanessa Pelz-Sharpe\, Melissa Gitari and Isha Karki. \n\n\nFounded in 2017\, 3 of Cups Press is a small press\, focusing on inclusive publishing. We share a vision for a more equal\, more peaceful\, more inclusive world and we are dedicated to providing a platform for voices otherwise unheard in the mainstream. We are a team of women and non-binary folk\, and are disability-led. \nOur first project is a series of anthologies\, starting with On Anxiety\, published in January 2018\, and On Bodies\, published in October 2018. Our third\, On Relationships\, published February 2020. These anthologies provide a platform for writers and artists and a starting point on how to tackle issues such as mental health\, our relationships with our bodies\, political activism and more. \nWe believe that art and literature can be activism. In pursuit of a more fair\, more equal world\, all of our contributors are paid for their work. \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-on-relationships/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ONRELATION.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201013T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201013T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20200914T114016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T153842Z UID:14304-1602615600-1602619200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Settling the World: M. John Harrison in conversation with Gary Budden (online event) DESCRIPTION:Housmans is pleased to welcome sci-fi supremo M. John Harrison to our first digital event in collaboration with indie publishers Comma Press and Influx Press. \nConsidered one of the most important stylists of modern fantasy and science fiction working today\, and a pioneer of the New Wave\, award-winning author M. John Harrison can count amongst his fans the likes of Neil Gaiman\, Iain Banks and Robert Macfarlane. \nThroughout his career\, M. John’s writing has defied categorisation\, building worlds both unreal and all-too real\, overlapping and interlocking with each other. His stories are replete with fissures and portals into parallel dimensions\, unidentified countries and lost lands. \nHis latest collection\, Settling the World\, is a selection of stories\, drawn from 50 years of writing (1979-2020)\, follows backstreet occultists\, amateur philosophers\, down-and-outs or refugees\, and explores our relationship with ‘the other’ in microscopic detail. What the characters have in common is they share in Harrison’s rejection of the idea that the world\, or our understanding of it\, could ever be settled. \nWe have 50 signed copies of Settling the World which will be allocated to ticket holders on a first come first served basis. \nAttendees will be emailed the zoom link the morning of the event: please check your spam folder. If you have not received the link\, please contact shop[at]housmans[dot]com  \nTHE SPEAKERS \nM. John Harrison is the author of eleven novels (including In Viriconium\, The Course of the Heart and Light)\, as well as four previous short story collections\, two graphic novels\, and collaborations with Jane Johnson\, writing as Gabriel King. He won the Boardman Tasker Award for Climbers (1989)\, the James Tiptree Jr Award for Light (2002) and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Nova Swing (2007). He reviews fiction for The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement\, and lives in Shropshire. \nGary Budden is a writer\, editor and co-founder of the award winning Influx Press. He is the author of the books Hollow Shores\, Judderman (as D.A. Northwood)\, and The White Heron Beneath the Reactor with artist Maxim Griffin. London Incognita is forthcoming in 2020. \n*If you are unable to pay the entry price\, please email Housmans Bookshop* \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/settling-the-world-m-john-harrison-in-conversation-with-gary-budden-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/9781912697281.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201111T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201111T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201019T152300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T151229Z UID:15017-1605121200-1605126600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: "The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State" with Robb Johnson and Louise Regan DESCRIPTION:COVID has dramatically confirmed that the current condition of state education is not fit for purpose. Join educators and organizers Robb Johnson and Louise Regan to discuss how 30 years of “education reform” have created a dysfunctional mass education system that ruthlessly prioritises the agenda of the neo-liberal state over the needs of children. Robb Johnson’s book The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State is part memoir and polemic and a celebration of children’s innate desire to learn\, share\, cooperate\, and play\, as well as a critique of bureaucratic interference. The book lays out how to create democratic spaces where kids can grow\, not up\, not old\, but as individuals. \nAbout The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State \nThere once was a time when teachers and communities were able to exercise democratic control over their schools. Now that power has been taken away\, both centralised and privatised\, under the guise of “reform.” There is a forgotten history of the time before reform\, and within it a bright horizon is visible\, reachable only if educators and society at large can learn the lessons of the past. \nRobb Johnson entered the classroom as a new teacher in the 1980s and has spent a lifetime alongside his pupils encouraging both creativity and a healthy distrust of authority. Johnson details how we ended up with the contemporary mass education systems and why they continually fail to give children what they need. Combining practical experience as a teacher with detailed pedagogical knowledge\, and a characteristic playful style\, Johnson is both court chronicler and jester\, imparting information and creatively admonishing the self-important figureheads of the reform agenda. \nThis book considers how schools and education relate to the wider society in which they are located and how they relate to the particular needs and abilities of the people who experience them. It shows that schools and education are contested spaces that need to be reclaimed from the state\, and turned into places where people can grow\, not up\, not old\, but as individuals. It offers alternative ways of running classrooms\, schools\, and perhaps even society. \nPraise: \n“I have rarely seen a book that is so embedded in what education is for and that then directs the reader to how to pursue the goals\, in practice and at all levels of school infrastructure so that the way schools are structured adds to the goodness of society.”\n—Marcelo Staricoff\, author of Start Thinking\, fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching\, and former headteacher \n“The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State by Robb Johnson shows the stark reality of the current situation for education. Education is at a crossroads\, and this book comes at an important time raising awareness and exposing the flaws in our current system. Read this\, and then join the campaign to fight for a fairer\, fully funded\, comprehensive education system!”\n—Louise Regan\, ex-president of National Education Union (UK) \n“The goals of the school systems in most countries have generally not had nothing to do with producing happy\, creative\, self-confident\, autonomous children who will grow up to become happy\, creative\, self-confident\, autonomous adults. But since schooling become mandatory in industrialized societies like the UK and the US\, the schools have been an ideological battleground between those who want to produce obedient workers and soldiers\, and those\, like Robb Johnson\, who would prefer to see a liberated humanity consisting of whole people\, who are treated as such from birth\, by their parents\, by the schools\, and all other social\, political\, and economic institutions. This book is a brilliant crash course in the roots of the problem\, the devastation that has been done since the post-Thatcher/Reagan austerity budgets and a return to Victorian (‘family‘) values\, and how we might address all of these complex challenges. And it is as captivating a read as any good memoir\, because that’s exactly what it is. Robb Johnson lived through\, and taught through\, the backlash\, working as a school teacher from 1980 until very recently.”\n—David Rovics\, musician and author of Sing for Your Supper: A DIY Guide to Playing Music\, Writing Songs\, and Booking Your Own Gigs \nAbout the Speakers: \nRobb Johnson was born in 1955\, studied English lit at Sussex University\, trained as a teacher\, and then did an MA in English literature at Manchester University. He has worked as a classroom teacher by day and a songwriter by night since 1980. As a songwriter\, he has received widespread critical acclaim. Robb has written songbooks; edited a book of stories\, Journeys Down Denbigh Road\, for use with young children in school assemblies; edited A Navigator’s Tale\, a book collecting his father’s World War II memoir and poetry; and contributed regularly to the music magazine RNR. \nLouise Regan is the ex-president of National Education Union (UK). \nPlease note that this event will be held online via Zoom. You will be emailed a Zoom invitation on the day of the event.  \n**Please email the shop if you are unable to pay the entry price** \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-the-peoples-republic-of-neverland-the-child-versus-the-state-with-robb-johnson-and-louise-regan/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-Peoples-Republic-of-Neverland-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201125T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201125T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201110T105926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201116T164908Z UID:15118-1606330800-1606336200@housmans.com SUMMARY:"Travelling While Black" with Nanjala Nyabola in conversation with Dickens Olewe [online event] DESCRIPTION:ONLINE EVENT 7pm UTC \nHousmans are pleased to welcome writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola to discuss her latest book Travelling While Black. What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour\, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self\, of home\, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility\, as old as humanity itself\, when more people are on the move than ever? \nNanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world\, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions – both hers and others’. From Nepal to Botswana\, Sicily to Haiti\, New York to Nairobi\, her sharp\, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising\, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes. \n**Please note this is an online event. You will be emailed an invitation link on the morning of the event. Please check your spam folder and email us if you have not received the invitation link by the afternoon** \nAbout the speakers \n \nNanjala Nyabola is a writer and political analyst based in Nairobi\, Kenya. Her work focuses on the intersection between technology and politics\, as well as migration and human mobility. A constant traveller\, at the time of writing she has visited over seventy countries across four continents. \nDickens Olewe is a Kenyan journalist working for the BBC\, and a 2015 John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University. His interest is in using new technology for storytelling and integrating the public in the news reporting process. \nHe was part of the team of journalists chosen by Deutsche Welle Academy to develop a manifesto on how to use digital technology to promote freedom of expression in the global south. \nHe’s been a speaker on several media subjects including: drone journalism\, digital publishing platforms\, media trends\, mobile journalism\, social media for news\, user engagement and crowdsourcing news\, at several journalism conferences around the world including: SxSw\, re:publica\, ONA and the World News Media Congress. He also runs The Dickens Olewe podcast where he interviews guests on media\, politics and technology in Africa. \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/travelling-while-black-with-nanjala-nyabola/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/travel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201110T113649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201125T131720Z UID:15019-1607022000-1607027400@housmans.com SUMMARY:"Red Metropolis: Socialism and The Government of London" with Owen Hatherley and Hilary Wainwright [online event] DESCRIPTION:ONLINE EVENT \nA polemical history of municipal socialism in London and an argument for turning this capitalist capital red again. \nLondon is conventionally seen as merely a combination of the financial centre in the City and the centre of governmental power in Westminster\, a uniquely capitalist capital city. This book is about the third London a – social democratic twentieth-century metropolis\, a pioneer in council housing\, public enterprise\, socialist design\, radical local democracy and multiculturalism. \nThis book charts the development of this municipal power base under leaders from Herbert Morrison to Ken Livingstone\, and its destruction in 1986\, leaving a gap which has been only very inadequately filled by the Greater London Authority under Livingstone\, Boris Johnson and Sadiq Khan. \nOpposing currently fashionable drivel about an imaginary ”metropolitan elite”\, this book makes a case for London pride on the left\, and makes an argument for using that pride as a weapon against a government of suburban landlords that ruthlessly exploits Londoners. \n**Please note this is an online event. You will be emailed an invitation link on the morning of the event. Please check your spam folder and email us if you have not received the invitation link by the afternoon**  \n\n\n\nPRAISE \n“No one else writes so clearly yet with such elegiac intensity about the symbiosis that exists between history and the built environment\, or the lives that are caught\, mangled and realised in its midst.” – Lynsey Hanley\, author of Estates: An Intimate History \n“Hatherley is a hugely knowledgeable and passionate advocate for architecture and planning\, a cracking writer\, and an undervalued figure of the left. For anyone daring to tackle social issues\, Red Metropolis should be compulsory reading.” — Emma Dent Coad\, Labour councillor for Golborne Ward and MP for Kensington\, 2017-2019 \n“This book captures\, like no other\, the way London local government has been a tumultuous political battle ground and the breeding ground of radical political ideas and social movements. It stands as an excellent basis from which to launch the next wave of radical thinking about the future of the capital.” — John McDonnell\, Deputy Leader and Chair of Finance of the Greater London Council\, 1981-85\, and Shadow Chancellor\, 2015-2020 \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \n\nOwen Hatherley writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for the Architectural Review\, The Calvert Journal\, Dezeen\, the Guardian\, Jacobin and the London Review of Books. He is the author of several books\, most recently Landscapes of Communism\, The Ministry of Nostalgia and The Chaplin Machine. \nHilary Wainwright is editor of Red Pepper and Fellow of the Transnational Institute. Her most recent book is A New Politics From the Left (Polity 2018. Hilary was Coordinator of the GLC’s Popular Planning unit from 1982 until its abolition in 1986. \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/red-metropolis-socialism-and-the-government-of-london-with-owen-hatherley-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Owen-Red-moetropolis.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201210T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201210T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201202T151531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T162232Z UID:26255-1607626800-1607632200@housmans.com SUMMARY:After the Fact?: The Truth About Fake News with Marcus Gilroy-Ware in conversation with Aurelien Mondon [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join Marcus Gilroy-Ware and Aurelien Mondon to explore the causes of our current political malaise\, and whether the era of “Fake News” and the populist far-right is over. \nMany rightfully breathed a sigh of relief with the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in November\, as it signalled the end of the racist and misogynist Donald Trump’s term as US president. But does the end of Trump mean the end of “Trumpism” in its essence — the proliferation of lies\, mis- and disinformation\, and an insurgent populist far-right on the march? \nMarcus Gilroy-Ware\, author of the recently published After the Fact: The Truth about Fake News and Aurelien Mondon\, co-author of Reactionary Democracy: populism\, liberal and illiberal racisms\, the far right and the lack of political imagination explore this question\, tackling the deeper causes of “Fake News” and the rising tide of far-right nationalism\, in the hope that we’re able to combat it more effectively. \n**This is an online event. You will be emailed an invitation on the day of the event. If you haven’t received your invitation by 5pm\, check your spam folder or email the shop and we will resend it to you** \nAbout the speakers \nMarcus Gilroy-Ware is a writer\, researcher and teacher who works at the intersection of politics\, culture and communication. He is the author of Filling the Void: Emotion\, Capitalism and Social Media and After the Fact?: The Truth About Fake News. \nAurelien Mondon researches and teaches at the University of Bath. He is the author of The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia: A Populist Hegemony?\, the co-editor of After Charlie Hebdo: Terror\, Racism and Free Speech and the co-author of the recently published Reactionary Democracy:  populism\, liberal and illiberal racisms\, the far right and the lack of political imagination with Aaron Winter. \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/after-the-fact-the-truth-about-fake-news-with-marcus-gilroy-ware-in-conversation-with-aurelien-mondon-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CoverFinal2020-2-640x1010-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201219T151141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210323T115932Z UID:27094-1610650800-1610656200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch - Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher with Matt Colquhoun and James Butler [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join Matt Colquhoun and James Butler as they examine the crucial legacy of Mark Fisher\, to celebrate the publication of Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher\, edited by Colquhoun.\n\nWhen we lost Mark Fisher in 2017\, we lost one of our most exciting and vital critics of contemporary politics and culture. Providing lucid and excoriating critiques on subjects ranging from Dido to Drake; The Fall to James Blake; Breaking Bad to Benefits Street\, he was moved by the emancipatory possibilities of popular culture. In publishing\, he worked to spread radical ideas and provide a generation of new writers with a platform. Blogging as ‘k-punk’\, he analysed everyday experiences of precarity\, depression\, and cultural malaise as profoundly political — and therefore changeable. Mark tirelessly sought alternatives to the world that we’ve been given\, away from the destructive individualism of the present and towards a practical communitarian future.\n\nFor the first time\, Postcapitalist Desire reveals Mark Fisher in his element — the classroom — outlining a project that Fisher’s death left so bittersweetly unfinished.\n\nBeginning with that most fundamental of questions — “Do we really want what we say we want?” — Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism\, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past\, present\, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking\, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness\, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.\n\nFor Fisher\, this process of consciousness raising was always\, fundamentally\, psychedelic — just not in the way that we might think…\n\nSpeakers\n\nMatt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull\, East Yorkshire. He is the author of Egress: On Mourning\, Melancholy and Mark Fisher and blogs at xenogothic.com.\n\nJames Butler is the co-founded Novara Media and presents Novara FM on Resonance 104.4\, as well as being a contributor to the LRB and others.\n\nPlease read:\n\nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com with a UK address. Postcapitalist Desire is published on 12 Jan 2021.\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 purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it. \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/postcapitalist-desire-the-final-lectures-of-mark-fisher-with-matt-colquhoun-and-james-butler/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/post-cap.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210120T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201222T172109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T153757Z UID:27209-1611169200-1611174600@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes\, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution with Dan Hicks [online event] DESCRIPTION:Housmans welcomes Dan Hicks to discuss his book The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes\, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution at this free online event. Simply register below to attend. Alternatively\, if you wish to support Housmans\, please choose the solidarity ticket option.\n\nBrutish Museums is a call for western museums to wash their hands of colonial blood.\n\nWalk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified\, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name\, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.\n\nFew artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes – a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City\, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897\, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria\, the British Museum and countless private collections.\n\nThe story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution\, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums\, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects\, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.\n\nTo buy a copy of Dan’s book\, click here\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nDan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. His award-winning research focuses on the restitution of African cultural heritage from Euro-American collections\, focusing on the place of ideas of cultural whiteness in ongoing histories of colonial violence.\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/the-brutish-museums-the-benin-bronzes-colonial-violence-and-cultural-restitution-with-dan-hicks-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Brutish-Museums.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210127T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210127T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201222T173257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210122T115731Z UID:27217-1611774000-1611779400@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Truth About Modern Slavery with Emily Kenway in conversation with Dawn Foster [online event] DESCRIPTION:Emily Kenway and Dawn Foster join us online to discuss the issue of modern slavery in the UK. This event is free\, simply register below to attend. \nIn 2019\, over 10\,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for no pay\, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail bars\, we’re told that modern slavery is all around us\, operating in plain sight. \nBut is this really slavery\, and is it even a new phenomenon? Why has the British Conservative Party called it ‘one of the great human rights issues of our time’\, when they usually ignore the exploitation of those at the bottom of the economic pile? The Truth About Modern Slavery reveals how modern slavery has been created as a political tool by those in power. It shows how anti-slavery action acts as a moral cloak\, hiding the harms of the ‘hostile environment’ towards migrants\, legitimising big brands’ exploitation of the poorest workers and oppressing sex workers. \nBlaming the media’s complicity\, rich philanthropists’ opportunism and our collective failure to realise the lies we’re being told\, The Truth About Modern Slavery provides a vital challenge to conventional narratives on modern slavery. \nTo buy a copy of Emily’s book\, click here. \nSpeakers \nEmily Kenway is a writer and activist. As a former advisor to the UK’s first Anti-Slavery Commissioner she was at the heart of modern slavery action. She has written for a variety of publications including the Guardian and TLS. \nDawn Foster is a British journalist\, broadcaster and author. She is a staff writer for Jacobin magazine. She also contributes to the London Review of Books\, Times Literary Supplement\, The Independent\, The Nation\, Tribune\, and Dissent in the United States. \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/the-truth-about-modern-slavery-with-emily-kenway-in-conversation-with-dawn-foster-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Modern-slavery.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201210T171259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210323T114118Z UID:26658-1611946800-1611952200@housmans.com SUMMARY:**RESCHEDULED** In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life with Jamie Windust in conversation with Gina Martin [online event] DESCRIPTION:‘There is no one way to be non-binary\, and that’s truthfully one of the best things about it. It’s an identity that is yours to shape.’\n\n**Please note the new date of this event is Friday 29th of January at 7pm**\n\nHousmans and JKP are delighted to present Jamie Windust\, award-winning non-binary writer\, public speaker and model\, an author of In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life. Jamie will be in conversation with activist Gina Martin. \n\n\nCombining light-hearted anecdotes with their own hard-won wisdom\, Jamie explores everything from fashion\, dating\, relationships and family\, through to mental health\, work and future key debates. From trying on clothes in secret to iconic looks\, first dates to polyamorous liaisons\, passports to pronouns\, Jamie shows you how to navigate the world and your evolving identity in every type of situation. In Their Shoes is a call to arms for non-binary self-acceptance\, self-appreciation and self-celebration.\n\n‘Beautiful\, heart-breaking and hilarious.’ – Scarlett Curtis\n\n‘A love-letter to our non-binary siblings.’ – Paula Akpan\n\nPlease read:\n\nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com to let us know whether you would like Jamie’s book posted or if you would like to collect it from the shop. Please supply a UK address if the book is to be posted out. \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 purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it.\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/in-their-shoes-navigating-non-binary-life-with-jamie-windust-plus-special-guest-to-be-announced-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/jamie-windust.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210204T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210204T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210201T144504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210201T144504Z UID:25965-1612465200-1612468800@housmans.com SUMMARY:We Played With Fire Book Launch with Catherine Barter and Fen Coles DESCRIPTION:Thursday 4th February 2021\, 7pm-8pm\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nJoin us for the launch of We Played With Fire by Housmans co-manager Catherine Barter. Catherine will be in conversation with Fen Coles\, co-director of radical children’s bookseller Letterbox Library. The event will take place over Zoom.\n\n \n\nWe Played With Fire (Andersen Press) is a YA novel inspired by the true story of the Fox sisters\, who rattled the bones of nineteenth century America and kick-started the Spiritualist movement with their apparent ability to communicate with the dead. Fen and Catherine will be discussing the radical history of Spiritualism and the rise of political fiction for young adults.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister + Order Signed Copy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration OnlySubmitting form\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nCatherine Barter grew up in Warwickshire\, and then lived in Norwich for ten years. After gaining a PhD in American literature\, she ditched academia for the lucrative world of independent bookselling. She now lives in London and is one of the co-managers at Housmans Bookshop. With Letterbox Library\, she also helps to co-ordinate the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award for radical children’s fiction. We Played With Fire is her second novel.\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nFen Coles is co-director of Letterbox Library\, a 32-year-old children’s booksellers and workers’ cooperative\, specialising in inclusive children’s books. Fen has worked at Letterbox Library since 2005. Prior to this she worked in the LGBT and women’s charitable sector\, and taught Lesbian Cultural Studies to adult returners (while completing her PhD in lesbian horror films.) Fen is also co-founder and coordinator of the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award.\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/we-played-with-fire-book-launch-with-catherine-barter-and-fen-coles/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210209T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210209T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201207T162837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T132233Z UID:26278-1612897200-1612902600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Protest: Stories of Resistance with Christopher Eccleston\, Martyn Bedford and David Waddington DESCRIPTION:Housmans Bookshop and Comma Press are delighted to host two online events with renowned British actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake reading from protest-inspired stories published in Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest. \nThe two events will take place on two consecutive dates\, with Christopher reading on the 9th of February and Maxine on the 10th. Both readings will be followed by a conversation between authors and historians discussing the events depicted in the stories read by Christopher and Maxine. \nChristopher will be reading ‘Withen’ by Martyn Bedford\, a story about the Battle of Orgreave\, during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. The reading will be followed by a discussion with author Martyn Bedford and academic David Waddington who has published widely on Britain’s mining communities. \n\nPlease read: \nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com stating which book you prefer (Protest or Resist) and let us know whether you would like the book posted or if you would like to collect it from the shop. Please supply a UK address if the book is to be posted out.  \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 purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it.  \n\nMore info on Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist: \nAt a time of great political disarray – government corruption and incompetence\, the COVID pandemic\, Brexit and new austerity measures looming – we look back to the past to remember the times the people have called it out\, stood up\, resisted! \n\nFor a nation that brought the world Chartism\, the Suffragettes\, the Tolpuddle Martyrs\, and so many other grassroots social movements\, Britain rarely celebrates its long\, great tradition of people power. Both Protest and Resist are collections of fictions and essays that explore and commemorate key moments of British protest and defiance over the last two millenia. \nWritten in close consultation with historians\, sociologists and eyewitnesses – who also contribute afterwords – these stories follow fictional characters caught up in real-life struggles\, offering a street level perspective on the noble art of resistance. Authors re-imagine campaigns to change unjust laws\, protests against unlawful acts\, uprisings successful and unsuccessful – from Boudica to Blair Peach\, from the Battle of Cable Street to the tragedy of Grenfell Tower\, from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003. \nIn the age of fake news and post-truth politics this book fights fiction with (well researched\, historically accurate) fiction. Britain might not be famous for its revolutionary spirit\, but its people know when to draw the line\, and say very clearly\, ‘¡No pasarán!’ \nSpeakers \nMartyn Bedford is the author of five novels for adults: Acts of Revision\, which won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award\, Exit\, Orange & Red\, The Houdini Girl\, Black Cat\, and The Island of Lost Souls. He is also the author of two novels for young adults: Flip (shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award\, and winner of the Sheffield Children’s Book Award\, the Calderdale Book of the Year Award\, the Bay Book Award and the Immanuel College Book Award) and Never Ending (2014). His first collection of short stories\, Letters Home\, is published by Comma Press. \nDavid Waddington is Professor of Communications and Co-Director of the Cultural\, Communication and Computing Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University\, where he started out as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in March 1983. Since being appointed\, he has continued to publish widely on the policing of public order\, industrial relations in the coalfields\, and the sociology of Britain’s mining communities. His latest book\, Pit-folk and Peers: The Remarkable History of the People of Fryston\, Volume 1 – Echoes of Fryston Hall (1809-1908)\, has just been published by Route (Pontefract). \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/protest-and-resist-stories-of-resistance-and-uprising-with-christopher-eccleston/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Chris-Protest-FB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210210T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210210T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201207T162933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T133251Z UID:26294-1612983600-1612989000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Protest: Stories of Resistance with Maxine Peake\, Maggie Gee and Sally Alexander [online event] DESCRIPTION:Housmans Bookshop and Comma Press are delighted to host two online events with renowned British actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake reading from protest-inspired stories published in Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist. \nThe two events will take place on two consecutive dates\, with Christopher reading on the 9th of February and Maxine on the 10th. Both readings will be followed by a conversation between authors and historians discussing the events depicted in the stories read by Christopher and Maxine. \nMaxine will be reading the story ‘Night Cleaners’ Strike’ by Maggie Gee from the Protest anthology. \nPlease read: \nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com stating which book you prefer (Protest or Resist) and let us know whether you would like the book posted or if you would like to collect it from the shop. Please supply a UK address if the book is to be posted out.  \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 purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it.  \nMore info on Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist: \nAt a time of great political disarray – government corruption and incompetence\, the COVID pandemic\, Brexit and new austerity measures looming – we look back to the past to remember the times the people have called it out\, stood up\, resisted! \nFor a nation that brought the world Chartism\, the Suffragettes\, the Tolpuddle Martyrs\, and so many other grassroots social movements\, Britain rarely celebrates its long\, great tradition of people power. Both Protest and Resist are collections of fictions and essays that explore and commemorate key moments of British protest and defiance over the last two millenia. \nWritten in close consultation with historians\, sociologists and eyewitnesses – who also contribute afterwords – these stories follow fictional characters caught up in real-life struggles\, offering a street level perspective on the noble art of resistance. Authors re-imagine campaigns to change unjust laws\, protests against unlawful acts\, uprisings successful and unsuccessful – from Boudica to Blair Peach\, from the Battle of Cable Street to the tragedy of Grenfell Tower\, from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003. \nSpeakers \nSally Alexander is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths University of London. Her books include Becoming a Woman: and other essays in 19th and 20th century feminist history (1994)\, and most recently History and Psyche: Culture\, Psychoanalysis\, and the Past\, edited with Barbara Taylor (2012). She was an organiser of the first national UK Women’s Liberation Movement conference held at Ruskin College\, Oxford in 1970\, was a member of several groups in the London Women’s Liberation Workshop\, and among other protests participated in the 1970 Miss World Demonstration. \nMaggie Gee has published 15 books\, including The Ice People\, My Cleaner\, The White Family\, shortlisted for the International Impac and Orange (now Women’s) Prize\, The Blue (stories)\, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan and most recently Blood (2019) which was on the Sunday Times’s ‘Best Literary Novels 2019’ list as well as their ‘Best Summer Reading 2019’ list\,  a black comedy-thriller about angry pre-Brexit Britain. Hilary Mantel described Blood as ‘An astonishing book. Funny and fierce\, written with style and dash\, without fear.’ Maggie has been translated into 15 languages. She has been warning against climate change in her fiction since Where Are the Snows (1991). She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. The Red Children is forthcoming from Saqi in January 2022. \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/protest-and-resist-stories-of-uprising-and-resistance-with-maxine-peake/ CATEGORIES:Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Maxine-Protest.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210217T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210217T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210121T160549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T185000Z UID:28921-1613588400-1613593800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited\, Exhausted and Alone\, with Sarah Jaffe [online event] DESCRIPTION:When you love your job so much that you’ll work for next to nothing\, then nothing is exactly what you’ll get. \nWe’re very pleased to welcome Sarah Jaffe to Housmans to discuss the ‘labour of love’ myth: the idea that certain work is not really work\, and should be done for the sake of passion rather than pay. Whether it’s working for free in exchange for ‘experience’\, enduring poor treatment in the name of being ‘part of the family’\, or clocking serious overtime for a good cause\, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy. \nWork Won’t Love You Back examines the lives and experiences of various workers—from the unpaid intern and the overworked teacher\, to the nonprofit employee\, the domestic worker and even the professional athlete—this compelling book reveals how we’ve all been tricked into a new tyranny of work and argues that understanding the labour of love trap will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. \nFor this event\, Sarah will be in conversation with Ray Malone and Kate O’Shea\, two of the workers she interviews in Work Won’t Love You Back. \nPlease join us to take part in this essential conversation on a type of labour which is also very prevalent within radical communities: simply register below for free access or\, if you wish to support Housmans\, you can purchase a solidarity ticket. \nSpeakers \nSarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center fellow and an independent journalist covering the politics of power\, from the workplace to the streets. The author of Necessary Trouble\, she has written for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Nation and many other outlets. She tweets as @sarahljaffe. \nRay Malone is a creative producer\, theatre director and photographer\, working under the banner of her own theatre and arts collective: Heads Bodies Legs. Her previous experience is varied\, alongside her work as a theatre maker\, she has also worked as a chambermaid\, an ice cream seller\, a barmaid in a strip club\, a governess for wealthy Russians\, a terrible singer and badass single mum. As an activist\, she’s made performances with a number of collectives\, including Act Up London\, Beautiful Trouble\, the NHS Anti-Swindle Team\, and the Fallout Club. In theatre\, she has directed and dramaturged a range of new-writing and site-specific performances\, devising shows with professional and non-professional actors. Ray is currently leading the community arts project: the Molly’s Masquerade at St Margaret’s House in Bethnal Green. \nKate O’Shea is an artist with a social practice which includes printmaking\, the production of social spaces\, collective cooking and publishing. From setting up a social space in the south west of Ireland in 2009 to co-producing SPARE ROOM Art Architecture Activism (www.spareroomproject.ie) with Eve Olney in Cork in 2019\, Kate’s collaborative practice is based on building spaces of solidarity and dialogue in order to explore alternatives to the social relations of capitalism. Kate is currently The Just City Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency Awardee with Common Ground\, Dublin 8. Kate’s project How Much is Enough? includes collaborators from all around the world exploring ideas and practices around spatial injustices in multiple cities. This includes an upcoming collaborative exhibition entitled ‘Half Way To Falling’. Along with Victoria Brunetta\, Kate is co-founder of Durty Books (2018 – present) which is a publishing house that has produced two books to date\, providing a critical space for voices who challenge and build alternatives to capitalist hegemony. Kate is developing The People’s Kitchen which is being funded by Arts Council Ireland Artist in Community Scheme\, managed by CREATE. She is consulting artist on We Only Want The Earth 2020 working with A4 Sounds\, Create & MASI. Kate is a member of The Living Commons\, Ireland. \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/work-wont-love-you-back-how-devotion-to-our-jobs-keeps-us-exploited-exhausted-and-alone-with-sarah-jaffe-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/sarah-jaffe-book-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210219T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210219T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20201225T144655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T190228Z UID:27221-1613761200-1613766600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Introduction to Degrowth with Vincent Liegey\, Anitra Nelson and Derek Wall [online event] DESCRIPTION:Vincent Liegey\, Anitra Nelson and Derek Wall join us online at Housmans to provide an accessible introduction to the degrowth movement. \nThis is a free event. To attend simply RSVP below. Alternatively\, if you would like to support Housmans you can buy a solidarity ticket. \nA sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism\, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer\, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about\, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. \nAs politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives\, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming our economies\, our politics and our cultures to live within the Earth’s limits. \nVincent\, Anitra and Derek will cover the practice and strategies of the movement\, its strengths and weaknesses and will also look at horizontal democracy\, local economies and the reduction of work\, arguing that degrowth is a compelling and realistic project. \nTo buy Exploring Degrowth by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson (published by Pluto Press)\, click here \nSpeakers \nVincent Liegey is an engineer\, interdisciplinary researcher\, spokesperson for the French degrowth movement and co-author of Un Projet de Décroissance\,  Utopia\, 2013). He is also the coordinator of Cargonomia — a centre for research and experimentation on degrowth\, a social cooperative for sustainable logistical solutions and local food distribution using cargo-bikes in Budapest. \nAnitra Nelson is Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne\, Australia. She is the author of Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (Pluto\, 2018) and is co-editor of Food for Degrowth (Routledge\, 2020) with Ferne Edwards. \nDerek Wall is the author of numerous books including Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals (Pluto\, 2017)\, Economics After Capitalism (Pluto\, 2015)\, The Rise of the Green Left (Pluto\, 2010) and The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom (Routledge\, 2014). He teaches Political Economy at Goldsmiths College\, University of London and was International Co-ordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales. \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/introduction-to-degrowth-with-anitra-nelson-and-derek-wall-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/degrowth.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210309T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210309T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210202T130318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T162534Z UID:28937-1615316400-1615321800@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Care Crisis: Emma Dowling in conversation with Helen Hester [online event] DESCRIPTION:Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change\, we must go so much further. \nWe are pleased to welcome author Emma Dowling to Housmans to discuss her new book\, The Care Crisis\, in which she analyses the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world\, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties\, to the state of the social care system. \nEmma and Helen will discuss the continued off-loading of the cost of care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society\, untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification\, marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are living in. \nSpeakers \nEmma Dowling has lived and worked in London and Birmingham and currently teaches sociology at the University of Vienna. Her writing has appeared in Red Pepper\, New Humanist\, Financial Times\, Open Democracy and Tribune. \nHelen Hester is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of West London. Her research interests include technology\, social reproduction\, and the future of work\, and she is a member of the international feminist working group Laboria Cuboniks. Her books include Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (SUNY Press\, 2014)\, Xenofeminism (Polity\, 2018)\, and After Work: The Politics of Free Time (Verso\, forthcoming\, with Nick Srnicek). \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 purchase the ticket. 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\nThere are three available tickets for this event: book plus event entry\, solidarity ticket and free access. Please choose from below: \n\n\n\n\nBook plus entry ticket £16.99\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/the-care-crisis-emma-dowling-in-conversation-with-helen-hester-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/care-crisis.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210212T142216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210317T181807Z UID:29610-1616007600-1616013000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism\, with Andrea D'Atri [online event] DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind? \nHousmans is proud to welcome Andrea D’Atri to discuss her new publication with Pluto Press\, Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism. Join us for a passionate journey through the history of feminism. \nUsing the concrete struggles of women\, Andrea traces the history of the women’s and workers’ movement from the French Revolution to queer theory. She analyses the divergent paths feminists have woven for their liberation from oppression and uncovers where they have hit dead ends. \nWith the global working class made up of a disproportionate number of women\, women are central in leading the charge for the next revolution and laying down blueprints for an alternative future. D’Atri makes a fiery plea for dismantling capitalist patriarchy. \nThis is an online event in Spanish\, interpreting into English provided. \nSpeakers \nAndrea D’Atri is founder of the Women’s organisation\, ‘Pan Y Rosas’ (Bread and Roses) in Argentina. She is an activist\, author\, psychologist and specialist in women’s studies. Pan y Rosas is now one of the largest socialist women’s organizations in the world\, with thousands of activists in various Latin American and European countries. D’Atri is also a leading figure in the Ni Una Menos movement against macho violence and supporting the right to abortion. \nInterpreting into English by Isabel Ros López. Isabel was born a migrant and has been writing poetry and songs since childhood. An anti-imperialist feminist activist since adolescence. She wants to change the world with others\, with you. Peace with social justice. Together. She performs\, does community workshops\, publishes and records when she can; mostly works full time to end violence against women and girls. She says that intersectional feminism rocks! \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\nThere are two available tickets for this event: book + event entry and a free access ticket for students and unwaged. \n\n\n\nPlease choose a ticket from below: \n\n\n\n\nBook plus entry ticket £16.99\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/bread-and-roses-gender-and-class-under-capitalism-with-andrea-datri-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Andrea.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210324T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210324T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210212T144924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210317T115743Z UID:28816-1616612400-1616617800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism\, with Jillian C. Yorke in conversation with Adam Greenfield [online event] DESCRIPTION:How do Google\, Facebook and Amazon threaten our democracy? What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? \nJoin leading campaigner Jillian C. Yorke for an exploration of how corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge than any state. Jillian will show how big corporations have become unaccountable censors\, and the devastating impact this has had on those who have been censored. \nWe will discuss how our rights have become increasingly undermined by the major corporations’ desire to harvest our personal data and turn it into profit. Jillian will also look at how governments have used the same technology to monitor citizens and threatened our ability to communicate. \nSpeakers \nJillian C. York is International Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, EFF. She is also a founding member of the feminist collective\, Deep Lab. She has been covering questions of surveillance and freedom since the 2000s. She was named by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 intellectuals on social media. She has written for the Guardian\, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy. She is based in Berlin. \nAdam Greenfield spent over a decade working in the design and development of networked digital information technologies\, as lead information architect for the Tokyo office of internet services consultancy Razorfish\, Independent User-Experience Designer and Head of Design Direction for Service and User-Interface Design at Nokia headquarters in Helsinki. \nSelected in 2013 as Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities centre of the London School of Economics\, he has taught in the Urban Design program of the Bartlett\, University College London\, and in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. \n\n\n\n \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\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBook plus event entry £16.99\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/silicon-values-the-future-of-free-speech-under-surveillance-capitalism-with-jillian-c-yorke-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/silicon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210225T170248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T191035Z UID:31224-1616698800-1616704200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Disturbing the Body\, with Abi Hynes and Irenosen Okojie DESCRIPTION:Three feminist bookshops have joined forces with Boudicca Press to celebrate ​Disturbing The Body​\, a subversive collection of speculative memoir about misbehaving bodies. \n\n\n\nDisturbing The Body Body ​will launch across three nights\, with​ Lighthouse\, Five Leaves ​and Housmans​ bookshops each hosting a new pairing of writers. \n\n\n\nThe ambitious three-part launch reflects the creativity and character of radical bookshops and the scope of this phenomenal anthology. Taking readers on a bookish journey the length of the country\, it exemplifies theways indies have rallied for each other and for independent presses during the pandemic. \n\n\n\nThe three-part launch picks out common threads from the book to give you the following: \n\n\n\n23rd March with Lighthouse (Edinburgh): Chikọdili Emelumadu and Verity Holloway focus on using genre (horror) to explore women’s bodily experiences. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n24th with Five Leaves (Nottingham): Louise Kenward and Laura Elliott\, on storytelling that explores health\, medicine and disability. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n25th Housmans (London): Irenosen Okojie and Abi Hynes draw on their stories\, the uncanny and fantastical\, to explore feminism and body politics. For tickets for this event\, please see below. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAbi Hynes is a drama and fiction writer based in Manchester. Her plays have been staged in venues across the UK\, and she is currently working on original audio drama and TV projects. Her short stories have been widely published\, most recently in Black Static\, Lucent Dreaming and Neon Magazine\, and she was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Novella-in-Flash Award in 2018. She won the Cambridge Short Story Prize in 2020.Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Observer\, The Guardian\, the BBC and the Huffington Post\, amongst other publications. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular\, published by Jacaranda Books\, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize\, the Jhalak Prize\, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new collection of stories\, Nudibranch published by Little Brown’s Dialogue Books\, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for Fiction for her story\, ‘Grace Jones’. http://www.irenosenokojie.com Twitter: @IrenosenOkojieAbout Boudicca PressBoudicca Press is an independent publisher who celebrates the strength\, courage and literary talents of women. They publish weird\, literary and relationship fiction by women in the UK. \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\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \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-disturbing-the-body-with-abi-hynes-and-irenosen-okojie/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Feminist event,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DisturbingThe-BodyBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210331T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210331T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210212T154010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210331T175359Z UID:28993-1617217200-1617222600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Border Nation: A Story of Migration\, with Leah Cowan in conversation with Kelsey Mohamed [online event] DESCRIPTION:Together\, we can break down borders \nBorders are more than geographical lines – they impact all our lives\, whether it’s the inhumanity of deportations\, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows how oppressive borders must be resisted. \nActivist and author Leah Cowan joins us at this Housmans online event to explore the themes of Border Nation\, her new publication for Pluto Press’s Outspoken series. Leah will be in conversation with Kelsey Mohamed from Cradle Community. They will discuss the multiple issues around migration\, exploring its colonial origins and laying bare the web of media myths that vilify migrants. They will also delve into the murky waters of corporate profiteering from borders by companies like G4S and the ramping up of everyday borders through legislation. \nJoin us to find out how people are fighting back to stand up for everyone’s freedom to move. \nSpeakers \nLeah Cowan is the former Politics Editor at the award-winning magazine gal-dem. She works at Project 17\, an advice centre which supports migrant families with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). She speaks on race\, gender and migration\, including for UN Women\, in the House of Commons\, and at the Trade Unions Congress\, and has written for VICE\, openDemocracy and the Guardian. \nKelsey Mohamed is a facilitator and organiser with Cradle Community and Resist + Renew \n \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\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \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/border-nation-a-story-of-migration-with-leah-cowan-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/leah.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210212T163119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T182902Z UID:29303-1617822000-1617827400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Come Join Our Disease: Sam Byers in conversation with Juliet Jacques [online event] DESCRIPTION:We are very pleased to announce Sam Byers will be joining Juliet Jacques at this Housmans online event to discuss Sam’s latest novel\, Come join Our Disease (published March 18\, Faber). \nThis darkly comic story follows Maya\, a homeless radical who’s given an opportunity to re-enter society through raising a tech-company’s philanthropic profile. Marred by the oppressive standards of image and ‘perfection’\, Maya -through obscene images and a revolution of sickness-  aims to liberate herself and others from society’s grip.  It’s a tale of resistance\, rebellion and questions what it means to protest against the norm. \nEven more relevant to the past year in particular\, Come Join Our Disease crucially covers a humane view on loneliness and isolation\, the forces of hostility between people and how sickness can be used as a vehicle to examine these and speak to rebellion. \nSpeakers \nSam Byers‘ writing has appeared in Granta\, the New York Times and the Times Literary Supplement. His debut novel Idiopathy was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize and was the winner of a Betty Trask Award. His second novel\, Perfidious Albion was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction\, and shortlisted for the Encore Prize. \nJuliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published two books\, most recently Trans: A Memoir (Verso\, 2015) – her short story collection Variations will be out on Influx Press in June 2021. Her essays\, criticism and journalism have appeared in many publications\, from The London Review of Books to Tribune\, and her short films have screened in galleries and festivals worldwide. She hosts Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm – a radio programme that looks at the arts in their social\, cultural\, political and historical contexts. She teaches at the Royal College of Art\, City Lit and elsewhere. \n\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\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \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/come-join-our-disease-sam-byers-in-conversation-with-juliet-jacques-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Sam-byers.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210408T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210408T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210322T134307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T165005Z UID:32087-1617908400-1617913800@housmans.com SUMMARY:What White People Can Do Next : From Allyship to Coalition - Emma Dabiri in conversation with Mikaela Loach DESCRIPTION:Due to high demand for this event\, we have released an extra batch of tickets including book plus entry\, solidarity tickets and free RSVPs. Please see below. (Updated 6th April 2021) \n\n\n\nWHEN IT COMES TO RACIAL JUSTICE\, HOW DO WE TRANSFORM DEMONSTRATIONS OF SUPPORT INTO REAL AND MEANINGFUL CHANGE? \n\n\n\nThe Black Feminist Bookshop and Housmans are very pleased to announce a joint event to celebrate the publication of academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s new book What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition (published by Penguin). \n\n\n\nWhat White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition is a manifesto for meaningful and lasting change born from the need to talk about racial injustice in a new way. It is a nuanced examination of race\, class and capitalism drawn from years of academic study and lived experience\, as well as personal reflections. \n\n\n\nEmma will be in conversation with climate justice and antiracism activist Mikaela Loach. They will discuss some of the key aspects of What White People Can Do Next: the concept of “race” as one of the most powerful\, seductive and enduring myths of our time\, created to cause division; the origins of ‘whiteness’ and why the myth of a codified ‘white’ race and ‘white supremacy’ was created in the first place. What White People Can Do Next moves the conversation on from the well-intentioned\, yet often mis-informed\, world of Instagram posts and online outrage and asks not for ‘allyship’\, or ‘privilege’ passing\, but for a coalition of common goals. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic\, activist\, broadcaster and teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS and a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. Her 2019 debut Don’t Touch My Hair\, (Penguin) was an Irish Times Bestseller and published to critical and commercial acclaim. The book also inspired a national conversation about race and hair and has led to changing regulations in schools and in the British army. A regular broadcaster on the BBC\, Emma presented ‘Back in Time Brixton’ (BBC2)\, ‘Britain’s Lost Masterpieces’ (BBC4)\, as well as the sociological experiment ‘Is Love Racist?’ (Ch4). Most recently\, she hosted Radio 4’s critically-acclaimed documentary ‘Journeys into Afro-futurism’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMikaela Loach is a climate justice activist\, co-host of The Yikes Podcast\, writer and 4th year medical student based in Edinburgh. In 2020\, Forbes\, Global Citizen and BBC Woman’s Hour named Mikaela as one of the most influential women in the UK climate movement. Her work focuses on making the climate movement more inclusive and focusing on the intersections of the climate crisis with oppressive systems such as white supremacy and migrant injustices. Her activism has been featured in the BBC\, Vogue\, Cosmopolitan\, Elle and VICE. She uses her Instagram platform and The Yikes Podcast to communicate the need for system change\, climate justice and dismantling white supremacy. \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\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support the Black Feminist Bookshop and Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \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/what-white-people-can-do-next-from-allyship-to-coalition-emma-dabiri-in-conversation-with-mikaela-loach/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WWPCDN-jacket.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210414T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210414T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210331T132511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210414T151103Z UID:32609-1618426800-1618432200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: System Crash - An activist guide to making revolution\, with Neil Faulkner and Simon Hannah [online event] DESCRIPTION:Pandemic\, climate crisis\, endless war\, mega-slums\, police repression\, creeping fascism\, economic stagnation: these shape our world. This book provides hope for an alternative future. \n\n\n\nWe’re really pleased at Housmans to celebrate the launch of the latest offering from Resistance Books. \n\n\n\nSystem Crash is an activist guide to making revolution\, a call to arms. Written by Neil Faulkner\, Phil Hearse\, Nina Fortune\, Rowan Fortune and Simon Hannah\, System Crash argues that revolution – ending the rule of capital and the state – has become an existential necessity. \n\n\n\nCapitalism came into the world\, Marx wrote\, ‘dripping from head to toe\, from every pore\, with blood and dirt’. Now\, the ageing system is putrescent and gangrenous. But the last decade has seen explosions of revolt from below\, firecracking across the globe\, toppling dictators\, resisting austerity\, protesting racism\, defending abortion rights\, fighting for democracy. Here is the embryo of an alternative future. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nNeil Faulkner is a historian and political activist in Anti*Capitalist Resistance. His books include Rome: empire of the eagles\, A Radical History of the World\, A People’s History of the Russian Revolution\, and Creeping Fascism: what it is and how to fight it. He is currently working on A People’s History of the Spanish Civil War.  \n\n\n\nSimon Hannah is a socialist and trade union activist. He is the author of A Party with Socialists in it: a history of the Labour Left\, Can’t Pay – Won’t Pay: the fight to stop the Poll Tax\, and Radical Lambeth. \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\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBook plus event entry £10\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-system-crash-an-activist-guide-to-making-revolution-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SC-front-cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210421T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210421T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210413T111836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210421T140120Z UID:31943-1619031600-1619037000@housmans.com SUMMARY:The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World\, with Kehinde Andrews and Imarn Ayton DESCRIPTION:The West is rich because the Rest is poor. Capitalism is racism. The West congratulates itself on raising poverty by increments in the developing world while ignoring the fact that it created these conditions in the first place\, and continues to perpetuate them. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Kehinde Andrews and Imarn Ayton to virtual Housmans to discuss Kehinde’s book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule The World. \n\n\n\nOffering no easy answers\, The New Age of Empire is essential reading to understand our profoundly corrupt global system. A work of essential clarity\, The New Age of Empire is a groundbreaking new blueprint for taking Black Radical thought into the twenty-first century and beyond. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor and educator Kehinde Andrews is one of the leading Black political voices in Britain. He is associate professor in sociology at Birmingham City University\, a regular writer of opinion pieces for the Guardian\, Independent and Ebony magazine\, and editor of the series ‘Blackness in Britain’. He was part of the team that launched the first Black Studies degree in Europe\, and is Co-chair of the Black Studies Association and of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity. He regularly appears on television and radio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImarn Ayton is an Anti-Racism Activist and founder of the Black Reformist Movement: Imarn Ayton came to prominence during the Black Lives Matter protest on the 31st May\, further to organising several protests including Saturday 6th June with 20.000 people in attendance. Imarn Ayton has become motivational speaker and Racism ‘Thought Leader’ in the process and advocates for tackling Institutional racism in the U.K. \n\n\n\nImarn has featured in numerous Newspapers and magazines including: Guardian\, Evening Standard\, British Vogue\, British GQ\, Elle UK and The Face Magazine.  \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\nThere are two available tickets for this event: If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free entry ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \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/the-new-age-of-empire-how-racism-and-colonialism-still-rule-the-world-with-kehinde-andrews-and-imarn-ayton/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/kehinde.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210505T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210505T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235554 CREATED:20210331T125322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210505T185500Z UID:29441-1620241200-1620246600@housmans.com SUMMARY:White Skin\, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism - with Andreas Malm\, Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter in conversation with Ash Sarkar DESCRIPTION:What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change? \n\n\n\nHousmans is pleased to welcome Andreas Malm and Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter from the Zetkin Collective to discuss White Skin\, Black Fuel\, the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis. \n\n\n\nFossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. White Skin\, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation\, revealing its deep historical roots. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface\, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down. \n\n\n\nAndreas\, Laudy and Anoushka will be in conversation with Ash Sarkar\, senior editor at Novara Media. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAndreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology\, and the author of The Progress of this Storm and of Fossil Capital\, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. \n\n\n\nLaudy van den Heuvel is a Dutch investigative journalist focusing on conspirituality\, libertarianism and health. \n\n\n\nAnoushka Zoob Carter is a researcher based at the University of Sussex\, exploring the nexus between land\, food and right-wing politics. \n\n\n\nLaudy and Anoushka are part of the Zetkin Collective\, a group of scholars\, activists and students working on the political ecology of the far right. \n\n\n\nAsh Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media\, and lectures in political theory at the Sandberg Instituut. \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\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \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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