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  • Book Launch: CTRL HATE DELETE by Cécile Simmons

    How did Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's divorce become the centre of the anti-#MeToo backlash? Why have so many teen boys fallen under the thrall of Andrew Tate, a failed […]

    £1 – £9.99

  • Book Talk: THE WAGES OF DREAM WORK: Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor

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    Housmans are absolutely delighted to be welcoming Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel to the shop to discuss their essential new book from Minor Compositions:The Wages of Dreamwork. Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor. Surviving as a cultural or artistic worker in the city has never been easy. Creative workers find themselves celebrated […]

    £1 – £18

  • Book Launch: We Are Not Anonymous by Stephen Oram

    A Working Utopia? In a near-future England, fractured into three nations and ravaged by climate floods, Naomi, a fiercely determined activist, and Beth, her courageous partner, fight for a better […]

    £1 – £11.99

  • BOOK LAUNCH: Our Subversive Voice: The History and Politics of English Protest Songs, 1600–2020

    Join us for a discussion with the cohort behind this fantastic co-authored book that establishes the protest song as a mode of political communication. Covering five centuries in England’s history, from street ballads and art song to grime, hymns, music hall, and punk, this book explores the causes that protest songs adopt, the conditions that […]

    £3 – £25.99

  • POETRY READING: KYLE LOVELL & ALEX MARSH DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH

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    WE ARE BACK with another absolutely stellar poetry reading. Our friends over at The Poet's Hardship Fund have been busy with one of their fantastic imprints Chaff. We will be launching two new titles: Kyle Lovell's equisite God Bless All Petty Thieves and Alex Marsh's ingenius Holding Pattern. Alongside Kyle and Alex we are blessed […]

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  • ON TONY BENN: Andy Beckett and Melissa Benn in Conversation

    To celebrate the long-awaited publication of Tony Benn's political writings, as well as the paperback edition of The Searchers, we welcome Andy Beckett and Melissa Benn to the shop for a conversation on Benn, his fellow Labour renegades and the future of the Labour left. We are delighted to be welcoming Melissa Benn to the […]

    £1 – £20

  • BOOK TALK: SQUATTING LONDON with Samuel Burgum

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    Squatting in London has a rich and diverse history. Today, squatters live a marginalised, stigmatised and criminalised existence, yet they persist. Behind the glittering façade of shiny new buildings, London is a network of vacant offices, boarded-up shops and dilapidated pubs that host some of the city's poorest and most determined citizens, exiled and increasingly […]

    £1 – £19.99

  • The Politics of Motherhood: Alex Bollen & Helen Charman in conversation

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    We are very excited to welcome two brilliant contemporary feminist thinkers to Housmans; their projects address 'motherhood' and the figure of the mother, as the urgent political categories that they are. Alex Bollen is a Postnatal Practitioner with the National Childbirth Trust and researcher with over 20 years of experiance, in Motherdom: Breaking Free from […]

    £1 – £52

  • BOOK LAUNCH: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation by Juliana Gleeson

    We are delighted to be welcoming Juliana Gleeson, one of the co-editors of the much acclaimed Transgender Marxism, back to Housmans to celebrate the publication of her new book: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation. In this work, Gleeson examines the history of the Intersex Liberation Movement, and reveals the means by which it […]

    £1 – £16.99

  • BOOK LAUNCH: EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL: Dan Hicks in conversation with Dr Mai Musié & Onyekachi Wambu

    Every Monument Will Fall: A Story Of Remembering And Forgetting ‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource’ — Paul Gilroy The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t […]

    £1 – £25

  • Book talk: Drax of Drax Hall with Paul Lashmar

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    How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery We are delighted that celebrated journalist Paul Lashmar will be joining us for an evening at Housmans to discuss his latest book, Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery. A brilliantly detailed […]

    £1 – £25

  • POETRY READING: Briony Hughes launches SPECULATIVE FREQUENCIES

    We are excited to welcome the daring and innovative poetry press Permeable Barrier back to Housmans and help them launch their sophomore publication: Speculative Frequencies by Briony Hughes. ​In this […]

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  • BOOK LAUNCH: REMEMBERING WOMEN by Christine Lehnen

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    Women do have a history of their own. All we need to do is remember it. We are delighted to welcome Dr Christine Lehnen to Housmans to discuss her illuminating new investigation, Remembering Women, that looks back at our collective memory to explore the myriad ways that women in the past have enjoyed a more […]

    £1.00 – £20.00

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