BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240925T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240925T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240820T145257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T152555Z UID:59502-1727290800-1727298000@housmans.com SUMMARY:HUMMINGBIRDS 3.0: a literary salon DESCRIPTION:the87press & Housmans Bookshop present Hummingbirds 3.0: a literary salon with Karenjit Sandhu and Kiran Bath \n\n\n\nHummingbirds is a new literary salon series from the87press\, designed to celebrate poetry and place different poets in discussion. The hummingbird is a surrealist motif that symbolises love and dialogue\, something which we wish to foster further within poetry and literature. Each salon event offers an intimate space for live poetry readings and discussion. \n\n\n\nHummingbirds 3.0 brings together two writers from the Punjabi diaspora\, Karenjit Sandhu and Kiran Bath (making a special visit from the US). In celebration of Karenjit’s and Kiran’s debut collections of poetry\, this reading will celebrate diaspora as a space for feminist politics\, intersectionality\, performance on and off the page. Each poet will read and be in conversation\, chaired by director of the87press\, Azad Ashim Sharma. \n\n\n\nOUR READERS \n\n\n\nKiran Bath is a writer and lawyer based in New York. She has received fellowships\, residencies and support from Poets House\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Winter Tangerine and Brooklyn Poets. Kiran is a Kundiman fellow and a Tin House alumnus. Her work has been shortlisted for the Peach Gold in Poetry the Jake Adam York Prize\, longlisted for the Pamet River Prize and nominated for the Best of the Net. Kiran’s poems appear in wildness\, The Adroit Journal\, The Brooklyn Rail and other decorated journals. INSTRUCTIONS FOR BANNO is Kiran’s debut collection of poetry with Kelsey Street Press. \n\n\n\nIn her debut poetry collection\, Kiran Bath travels through the timelines and geographies of the women in her family to understand the inherited consequences of becoming a South Asian bride (banno). Threading stories of pre-partition matriarchs\, migrant mothers\, and first generation daughters\, she renders themes of subjugation\, domestic violence\, honor killings\, and infanticide alongside unrequited love\, sisterhood\, motherhood\, and devotion in cathartic form. The result is the set of instructions left for BANNO\, a diary that ruptures the institution of filial duty and embodies the tradition that survives it—an insistence for declaring our humanity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKarenjit Sandhu is a poet and artist. She is a Lecturer in Art at the Reading School of Art\, University of Reading. Her publications include Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive (Guillemot Press)\, young girls! (the87press) and Baby 19 (intergraphia books). Her work is featured in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry and The Blue Notebook: Journal for Artists’ Books. Her artists’ books have been collected by the Tate Archive (London) and exhibited at The Showroom (London) and Galerie éof (Paris). Sandhu’s performance work has led to collaborations with the Institute of Contemporary Arts\, Barbican\, Flat Time House and Christie’s (London)\, Arnolfini (Bristol) and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). She is a member of the British Art Network and has written for exhibition catalogues on contemporary British\, European and South Asian art. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hummingbirds-30-a-literary-salon-with-karenjit-sandhu-and-kiran-bath-tickets-995099719047?aff=oddtdtcreator \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/hummingbirds-3-0-a-literary-salon/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_2024-08-20_153418.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240827T145815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T101319Z UID:59671-1727722800-1727733600@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: NAT RAHA launches 'apparitions (nines)' DESCRIPTION:We are very\, very excited to be welcoming the legendary poet Nat Raha to Housmans for the official UK launch of her new book\, apparitions (nines). A vital figure in UK\, and wider Anglophone\, vanguardist poetry for many years Raha’s newest experiment in lyric writing promises to be characteristically invigorating. \n\n\n\nReading alongside Nat we’ll have fabulous poetry from Mendoza\, Christine Kirubi\, Susannah Slack\, Samuel Solomon abd Daniella Valz Gen. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n\nInjecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem\, Nat Raha’s invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry. \n\n\n\nInjecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem\, Nat Raha’s invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry. Amidst the violence of capitalism and state and imperial power\, there is Nat Raha’s apparitions (nines) in its “charred golden minidress\,” ushering us into a space of grief and resistance\, the embodiment and intimacy of queer\, trans\, and diasporic Black and brown people. Written as a series of “niners\,” a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines\, apparitions (nines) is at once a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet\, as well as an ode to beauty\, collectivity\, and tenderness which emerges from\, and far surpasses\, constraint. \n\n\n\nOUR READERS: \n\n\n\nDr Nat Raha is a poet\, activist-scholar\, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her poetry is of an experimental queer lyric\, attending to hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism\, through de/re/materialising sound\, form and syntax\, on the page and in performance. \n\n\n\nHer books of poetry include apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books\, 2024)\, of sirens\, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press\, 2018) and countersonnets (Contraband Books\, 2013). Her performance work\, epistolary (on carceral islands) was co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival\, Scotland and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts\, Galway\, Ireland\, 2023. \n\n\n\nWith Mijke van der Drift\, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press\, forthcoming 2024); their article ‘“They would plant the rose garden themselves”: Femmeness\, Complicity\, Solidarity’\, is due imminently in Social Text. \n\n\n\nMendoza\, aka Linus Slug: Insect Librarian\, is nonbinary neurodivergent poet and researcher. Their work evolves through a series of creative processes exploring the interaction between sound\, image and text. The purpose of poetry making is not to speak of their experiences in neurotypical terms\, but to describe how they navigate the world through their own embodied language in which familiar and unfamiliar terrain is disrupted. In doing so\, they are liberated from neurotypical modes of thinking allowing them to de-construct / (re)construct the ‘self’ through the language of insects.  It is an act of nonconformity. \n\n\n\nPublications include WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths\, collaboration with Peter Manson (Materials\, 2018); “the science of poetry : the poetry of science” Linus Slug / Peter Manson broadside (2015)\, and Type Specimen: An Observant Guide To Linus Slug (Contraband Books\, 2014). Mendoza’s poetry can be heard at the Archive of the Now \n\n\n\ndove Christine is an artist-poet based in London. Her debut collection WILDPLASSEN is out now with the87press. \n\n\n\nSuzanna Slack is the author of Gummi Zone (2023)\, White Spirit Videotelephony (2023)\, The Shedding (2022)\, Luxury Profile (2021)\, The Poor Children (2021)\, Is This It? (2019)\, all produced by VF Press\, and Happy Birthday Story (1998)\, by Atman.  The Poor Children was selected by Sophie Collins\, author of Small White Monkeys\, as a White Review 2022 Book of the Year.  The chapter (Money) from The Poor Children is to be included in a forthcoming book by Kris Dittel and Aneta Rostkowska as part of their ongoing Unruly Kinships project.  Suzanna writes memory trilogies\, who knows why\, and is producing another one while managing disabilities and care responsibilities. They are grateful for any help. \n\n\n\nSam Solomon lives in Brighton. He is author of Special Subcommittee (Commune Editions\, 2017)\, Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist-Feminism: Social Reproduction and the Institutions of Poetry (Bloomsbury\, 2019)\, and co-translator from the Yiddish of The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin (Tebot Bach\, 2014). He is currently at work on a literary labour history of queer typesetting and has recently completed a second collection of poems.   \n\n\n\nProcess-led\, Daniella Valz Gen’s work explores poetic experience through different forms of reading\, writing\, performing and making. They’re invested in a relational and responsive approach to land\, place\, and the other-than-human. Born in Peru and based in London\, Valz Gen’s work highlights the interstices between languages\, cultures and value systems as areas where potential new meanings can arise.  Valz Gen is the current writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery. They are a co-director of the analogue film cooperative not/nowhere and a lecturer in Fine Art. Valz Gen’s work has been shown at Glasgow International\, SPILL Festival\, Aichi Triennale\, Gropius Bau among others. Subversive Economies\, their first poetry collection\, was published by PSS Press in 2018. Their writing has been featured in The Happy Hypocrite\, Map Magazine\, Salt\, and others. \n\n\n\nThis a free event. \n\n\n\nIf you have any further enquiries please Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30P.S. BYOB \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/poetry-reading-nat-raha-launches-apparitions-nines/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9781643622392_FC-copy-533x800-1-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241001T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241001T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240905T161203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T150258Z UID:59839-1727809200-1727818200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Women Without Children: Nicole Louie in conversation with Rose Diell DESCRIPTION:We are very happy to welcome Nicole Louie and Rose Diell to the shop to discuss their brilliant work. Nicole’s wonderful recent book Others Like Me is the story of fourteen women around the world\, from different walks of life\, who don’t have children. It’s also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find them and what they taught her. Part memoir\, part exploration of childlessness through candid conversations\, this book showcases the many ways in which people find fulfilment outside of parenthood. And because the social expectation to procreate weighs the most on women\, Louie focuses solely on them\, their experiences and how they flourish outside of motherhood. In doing so\, she upends the stereotypes that diminish women who are not mothers and offers reassurance and companionship on a path less known. \n\n\n\nRose Diell’s explores similar themes through the lens of surreal fiction in wonderful novel\, Fledgling. Lia lays an egg she doesn’t know what to do. At her age\, it’s impossible to escape the baby question\, and all her friends seem to be having children. She feels her heart’s not in it – but all the same\, there’s the egg\, impossible to ignore\, lying in a nest of towels in the living room. Her partner on tour on the other side of the world and her mother diagnosed with a terminal illness\, Lia finds herself torn\, unsure whether she’s ready to give up on her songwriting dreams; but time is running out\, and she must make one of the biggest decisions of her life. Beautifully written and brilliantly original\, Fledging is a riveting tale that asks what it is to lead a meaningful life\, and sounds a resounding call for women to make their own choices\, whether that means embracing motherhood or living child-free. \n\n\n\nThe authors will read from their work\, engage in conversation and take questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/women-without-children-nicole-louie-in-conversation-with-rose-diell/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/preeti-insta-1024x1024-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240906T163344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T110524Z UID:59901-1728068400-1728077400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Your Right To Protest by Christian Weaver DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited to be welcoming Christian Weaver to shop to celebrate the official launch of his vital new book Your Right To Protest. Christian is a human rights barrister\, social justice campaigner. His first book The Law In 60 Seconds: A Pocket Guide To Your Rights\, has been a long time staple of the Housmans catalogue and one of our bestselling titles\, it is an essential and accessible guide for those interested in activism and direct action. In Your Right To Protest he expands on many of the themes explored in the first book and brings together everything you need to know when taking a stand. Whether you are marching on the streets or making your voice heard from your own front room\, organising in your workplace or writing a letter to your MP\, this essential guide equips you with your fundamental rights and the laws that protect you – as well as the ones you might inadvertently break. \n\n\n\nFrom attending a demonstration to when the police can – and can’t – stop you\, this book has your back. In it\, you’ll find up-to-date information on a whole range of topics\, including: \n\n\n\n– Public assembly and who to notify when you’re on the move \n\n\n\n– Striking in the workplace and action your employer can take against you \n\n\n\n– Direct action and when it crosses over into trespass \n\n\n\n– Stop and search and how to access help if you are arrested \n\n\n\n– Online activism and what to do if you accidentally libel someone \n\n\n\nFor activists new and old alike\, Your Right to Protest is the indispensable guide to using your voice for what you believe in. \n\n\n\nThis is likely to be a very popular event and advance booking is strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-your-right-to-protest-by-christian-weaver/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Your-Right-to-Protest-cover-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241005T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241005T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240910T161528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T110529Z UID:60152-1728154800-1728163800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Nic Watts & Sakina Karimjee discuss Toussaint Louverture DESCRIPTION:Housmans are thrilled to be welcoming Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee to the shop to discuss their American Book Award winning\, and The American Library in Paris Book Award longlisted\, adaption of C.L.R. James’s celebrate play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History. \n\n\n\nPERHAPS THE GREATEST VICTORY OF THE OPPRESSED OVER THEIR OPPRESSORS IN ALL HISTORY \n\n\n\nThe end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791\, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar plantation colony revolted against their masters. For over twelve years\, against a backdrop of the French Revolution\, they fought an epic black liberation struggle for control of the island. Theirs was the first and only successful slave revolution. It was the creation of Haiti as a nation\, the first independent black republic outside of Africa\, and an international inspiration to the persecuted and enslaved. This is the impassioned and beautifully drawn story of the Haitian Revolution and its incredible leader: Toussaint Louverture. \n\n\n\nThe text of this graphic novel is a play by C. L. R. James that opened in London in 1936 with Paul Robeson in the title role. For the first time\, black actors appeared on the British stage in a work by a black playwright. The script had been lost for almost seventy years when a draft copy was discovered among James’s archives. Now this extraordinary drama has been reimagined by artists Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee.This book reproduces the stirring script James wrote\, and which united James for at least one night with his friend Robeson on the London stage\, when the playwright was forced to stand in for an absent actor. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-nic-watts-sakina-karimjee-discuss-toussaint-louverture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/81tf8BCqZhL._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241011T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241011T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240913T151134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T110532Z UID:60243-1728673200-1728682200@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit launches TONGUELESS DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome the brilliant Out-Spoken Press to the shop to celebrate the launch of Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit‘s brilliant new pamphlet Tongueless. \n\n\n\nRojbîn Arjen Yiğit is a Kurdish writer and poet. She is trilingual\, her poetry probes the themes of language\, exile and womanhood. Amongst other places\, her work has been published in Wasafiri\, Prototype\, Extra Teeth and Propel Magazine. Tongueless is her debut poetry pamphlet. Set in the beating heart of Family\, her poems are both a questioning of the past and a mirror searching for future possibilities. Grappling with loss\, the futility of language and the distances of countries\, these poems are an accumulation of the speaker’s struggles and senses. Interconnecting locales across generations\, they set out what it means to belong and what it means to mean. \n\n\n\nWe will have a host of poets supporting Rojbîn in the evening including Out-Spoken’s founding director Anthony Anaxagorou. A much celebrated poet in the UK\, Anthony has been published in POETRY\, The Poetry Review\, Poetry London\, Granta\, Ambit\, The Adroit Journal\, The London Magazine\, The Rialto and elsewhere. His poetry and fiction have appeared on BBC Newsnight\, BBC Radio 4\, ITV\, Vice UK\, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His work has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the 2015 Groucho Maverick and 2019 H-100 Awards. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \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/poetry-reading-rojbin-arjen-yigit-launches-tongueless/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/TONGUELESS-Rojbin-Arjen-Yigit-FRONT-COVER-20240805.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241012T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241012T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240920T144547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T103034Z UID:60579-1728759600-1728768600@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: FROM THE ASHES by Sarah Jaffe DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited indeed to be welcoming one of our most beloved authors to the shop\, Sarah Jaffe\, for the UK launch of her excoriating\, thrilling and moving new work of non-fiction: From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss\, of unraveling hopes and expectations\, of dreams curtailed\, of aspirations desiccated. At the same time\, we are denied the means of mourning the futures that are being so brutally curtailed. At such a moment\, taking the time to grieve is a radical act.  \n\n\n\nThrough in-depth reporting intertwined with memoir\, Sarah Jaffe shows how public memorialization has become more than a refusal or a protest: it is a path to imagining a better world. When we are able to mourn the lives\, the homes\, and the worlds we have lost\, we are better prepared to fight for a transformed future.   \n\n\n\nSarah Jaffe is a writer and reporter living in New Orleans and on the road. She is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited\, Exhausted\, and Alone and Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt. \n\n\n\nHer journalism covers the politics of power\, from the workplace to the streets\, and her writing has been published in The Nation\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, The New Republic\, the New York Review of Books\, and many other outlets. She is a columnist at The Progressive and a contributing writer at In These Times. She also co-hosts the Belabored podcast\, with Michelle Chen\, covering today’s labor movement\, and Heart Reacts\, with Craig Gent\, an advice podcast for the collapse of late capitalism. \n\n\n\nSarah has been a waitress\, a bicycle mechanic\, and a social media consultant\, cleaned up trash and scooped ice cream and explained Soviet communism to middle schoolers. Journalism pays better than some of these. \n\n\n\nSarah will be in conversation with the brilliant K Biswas\, a critic and essayist who has written for the New Statesman\, New York Times\, The Nation\, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the Director of Resonance FM – Europe’s largest community radio station – and the Editor of Representology: The Journal of Media and Diversity. \n\n\n\nADVANCED BOOKING STRONGLY RECCOMENDED. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-from-the-ashes-by-sarah-jaffe/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/DFZZptqD.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241001T150103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T150106Z UID:60882-1729105200-1729112400@housmans.com SUMMARY:COMING OUT OF MY SKIN book reading and discussion between author Jean-Baptiste Phou and Dr Rohit K DESCRIPTION:This event is organised externally – visit the Eventbrite page for more information and to reserve a place: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/coming-out-of-my-skin-book-reading-and-discussion-between-author-jean-baptiste-phou-and-dr-rohit-k-tickets-1015892510847?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl \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/coming-out-of-my-skin-book-reading-and-discussion-between-author-jean-baptiste-phou-and-dr-rohit-k/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Eventbrite-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241019T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241019T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240912T154300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240912T154304Z UID:60215-1729364400-1729373400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY by Benjamin Barson DESCRIPTION:This is gonna be a good one…Jazz! Theory! LIVE MUSIC!! \n\n\n\nHousmans will be hosting the wonderful scholar and musician Benjamin Barson for the official UK launch of his seminal new book\, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons. \n\n\n\nA new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians. Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz\, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below\,” following the musicians as they built communes\, performed at Civil Rights rallies\, and participated in general strikes. Perhaps most importantly\, Barson locates the first emancipatory revolution in the Americas—Haiti—as a nexus for cultural and political change in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In dialogue with the work of recent historians who have inverted traditional histories of Latin American and Caribbean independence by centering the influence of Haitian activists abroad\, this work traces the impact of Haitian culture in New Orleans and its legacy in movements for liberation. \n\n\n\nBrassroots Democracy demonstrates how Black musicians infused participatory music practice with innovative forms of grassroots democracy. Late nineteenth-century Black brass bands and activists rehearsed these participatory models through collective performance that embodied the democratic ethos of Black Reconstruction. Termed “Brassroots Democracy\,” this fusion of political and musical spheres revolutionized both. Brassroots Democracy illuminates the Black Atlantic struggles that informed music-as-world-making from the Haitian Revolution through Reconstruction to the jazz revolution. The work theorizes the roots of the New Orleans brass band tradition in the social relations grown in maroon ecologies across the Americas. Their fruits contributed to the socio-sonic commons of the music we call jazz today. \n\n\n\nBenjamin will be in conversation with seasoned music broadcaster and writer John Stevenson and WILL ALSO be putting his theories into practice and performing live music for us. Advanced booking strongly recommended. This is going to be part book talk part concert\, as always\, please feel free to BYOB. \n\n\n\n“Musician\, composer\, scholar Benjamin Barson places the origins of the music dubbed ‘jazz’ in its rightful place: the Black Radical Tradition. Deftly braiding the political and cultural histories of revolutionary Haiti\, Black Reconstruction\, the laboring and creative lives of workers and peasants of the Black Atlantic\, African and Indigenous memory in song\, story\, and dance\, Black feminist blues\, and resistance to racial capitalism\, he weaves a powerful story of how Black revolt and brass bands transformed the port city of New Orleans into a portal to musical revolution. From now on\, Brassroots Democracy should be our starting point—both for understanding the past and imagining an emancipatory future.” – Robin D.G. Kelley \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS \n\n\n\nBenjamin Barson is a historian\, baritone saxophonist\, and political activist. He is an assistant professor of music at Bucknell University. His work has been published in Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party (2020)\, Routledge Handbook on Jazz and Gender (2021) and Routledge Guide to Ecosocialism (2021). \n\n\n\nJohn Stevenson is a seasoned communications professional\, encompassing freelance broadcasting and writing for diverse publications including The Guardian\, The Independent\, The Times\, Caribbean Beat and UK Jazz News. An alumnus of the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill) and King’s College London\, John has an abiding interest in arts and culture from around the world\, especially the music of Africa and the African diaspora. He currently co-produces and co-hosts the monthly music radio programme\, Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner\, on www.thethursdaynightshow.com \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-brassroots-democracy-by-benjamin-barson/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241023T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241023T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240926T152424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T152428Z UID:60799-1729710000-1729720800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'The Picture of Contented New Wealth' - Tariq Godard in conversation with Alex Niven DESCRIPTION:It’s spooky season! Help us celebrate All Hallows Eve by welcoming Tariq Godard to the shop for the (re)launch of his acclaimed work of political horror: The Picture of Contented New Wealth. One of the most important and era defining satires on Neoliberal Britain written during the dying days of New Labour\, and anticipating\, in it’s send-up of Thatcher’s premier\, the cultural brutality of the Austerity years\, The Picture of Contented New Wealth is as a vital and haunting now as it’s ever been. \n\n\n\nIn the brilliant red doom of a Hampshire sunset\, Brigit Conti can hear a voice behind her ears that is not her own. Bed-bound and complaining of a rare bone disease that no doctor can diagnose\, her husband fears that the house they have purchased is a portal through which an older\, more malign energy has passed\, possessing his wife and son. Through their successive deterioration\, his secular and agnostic world-view undergoes a metamorphosis\, drawing him to a strange man from the hills: the Rector\, their unlikely saviour. \n\n\n\nOr are he and his family merely victims of their own self-serving yuppie way of life? \n\n\n\nThe Picture of Contented New Wealth is a gothic tragedy set in the 1980s\, bringing proper characterization and a literary sensibility to the traditional horror story. Its mix of generic elements and mystical realism deal with the irreducibility of evil and its successful normalization in to our daily and dominant reality. \n\n\n\nTARIQ GODDARD is the author of seven novels including his 2002 debut\, the Whitbread (latterly Costa) Prize shortlisted ‘Homage to a Firing Squad’ & 2017’s ‘Nature and Necessity’. He has been nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize\, & the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize & has co-edited two collections of essays\, ‘The Repeater Book of the Occult’ & ‘The Repeater Book of Heroism’. His last book ‘High John the Conqueror’ was published by Repeater Books in 2022. \n\n\n\nTariq will be joined in conversation with ALEX NIVEN. Alex Niven comes from the north-east of England. He writes regularly for the Guardian\, Tribune and New Statesman\, and has also contributed to publications including the New York Times\, the Independent\, Pitchfork\, The Face and VICE. He is the author of New Model Island (Repeater\, 2019)\, and The North Will Rise Again (Bloomsbury). He is currently Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University\, he helped to start the radical publisher Repeater Books in 2014. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30. \n\n\n\nPLEASE FEEL FREE TO BYOB \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-the-picture-of-contented-new-wealth-tariq-godard-in-conversation-with-alex-niven/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/61GhOjBYsgL._SL1262_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241025T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241025T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240917T122206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T110534Z UID:60373-1729882800-1729891800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music by Toby Manning DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited to be welcoming the brilliant Toby Manning to the shop to discuss his fantastic and all encompassing new tome: Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music. \n\n\n\nA radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years\, told through the period’s most popular music. \n\n\n\nMixing Pop and Politics is not a history of political music\, but a political history of popular music. Spanning the early 50s to the present\, it shows how\, from doo-wop to hip-hop\, punk to crunk and grunge to grime\, music has both reflected and resisted the political events of its era. \n\n\n\nMixing Pop and Politics explores the connections between popular music and political ideology\, whether that’s the liberation of rock’n’roll or the containment of girl groups\, the refusal of glam or the resignation of soft rock\, the solidarity of disco or the individualism of 80s pop. \n\n\n\nAt a time when reactionary forces are waging political war in the realm of culture\, and we’re being told to keep politics out of music\, Mixing Pop and Politics is a timely\, original and joyful exploration of popular music’s role in our society. \n\n\n\nToby will be joined in conversation by Adam Jones of the Acid Horizon podcast\, author of the The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy and co-author Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape. \n\n\n\nFor the first half of the event Toby and Adam will discuss the themes and arguments of Pop and Politics\, before this broadens out into an audience Q&A. After this\, we encourage milling about and then usually head to the pub. \n\n\n\nFeel free to BYOB. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-mixing-pop-and-politics-a-marxist-history-of-popular-music-by-toby-manning/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Mixing-Pop-and-Politics.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241029T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241029T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240910T112012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241021T160453Z UID:60121-1730228400-1730233800@housmans.com SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Sheila Rowbotham – Reasons to Rebel\, the 1980s revisited DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED: We regret that due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to cancel this event. We hope to reschedule at a later date.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe welcome back to Housmans Sheila Rowbotham to dissect the 1980s\, to go through her own “reasons to rebel” and discuss the outcome of that rebellion. It was the worst of times\, it was the best of times… \n\n\n\n“The 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government battered left movements\, painfully disrupted working-class peoples’ livelihoods and pressed down on many groups who faced discrimination. There was no shortage of reasons to rebel. Along with thousands upon thousands of others I opposed not just the repressive laws\, but the fundamental tenets of the new right. Hanging on to visions of creative utopias\, we strove for new ways of organizing and relating to others and we sought to connect a liberatory sexual politics with rebellions against many kinds of inequality. We argued wrote\, campaigned\, demonstrated\, picketed.We established alternative cooperative projects\, secured reforms through local government and made direct international links. Resourceful resistance slowed down the onslaught but we were contending not simply with the doctrinal resolve of a right-wing government. We faced something larger\, something that could not be voted out – a more ruthless global capitalism\, geared to profits which was prepared to dump hard-won social provision and neglect to conserve even basic infrastructure.” \n\n\n\nSheila Rowbotham is an English socialist feminist theorist and historian. She is the author of many books in the field of women’s studies\, including Hidden from History (1973)\, Beyond the Fragments (1979)\, A Century of Women (1997) and Threads Through Time (1999)\, as well as the 2021 memoir Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. \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/sheila-rowbotham-reasons-to-rebel-the-1980s-revisited/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sheil-Rowbotham.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20240917T105826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T151617Z UID:60351-1730314800-1730325600@housmans.com SUMMARY:An evening with Richard Seymour DESCRIPTION:Housmans are thrilled to be welcoming Richard Seymour to the shop for a double book launch! Richard is one of the country’s pre-eminent leftist thinkers and writers and we are extremely lucky to help celebrate his latest polemic\, from Verso\, Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization as well as the new paperback re-issue of The Twittering Machine: How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life\, from Indigo Press. \n\n\n\nIn Disaster Nationalism\, Seymour argues that the rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro\, the true peril lies elsewhere. Defeating these people will not stem the tide driving them forward. They are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood. Propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers\, enthralled by images of disaster and fantasies of doom\, they have emerged from a reservoir of societal despair\, fear\, and isolation. Within this seething cauldron\, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies\, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge\, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism. Seymour delves deep into this alarming development in world politics\, dissecting its roots\, its influencers\, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling\, Seymour offers a stark warning. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself. Unless we understand the deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence\, we have little chance of stopping it. \n\n\n\nIn surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine\, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media. Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users\, waiting for our next hit as we like\, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals\, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies\, desires and frailties into data\, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. \n\n\n\nThrough journalism\, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users\, developers\, security experts and others\, Seymour probes the human side of the machine\, asking what we’re getting out of it\, and what we’re getting into. \n\n\n\nFor the first half of the event Richard will be in conversation and discuss the themes and arguments of both books\, before this broadens out into an audience Q&A. After this we encourage milling about and then usually head to the pub. \n\n\n\nFeel free to BYOB. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/an-evening-with-richard-seymour/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/preeti-insta-3-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241109T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241109T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241008T122655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241109T172505Z UID:60912-1731178800-1731187800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: 'Monstrous Anger of the Guns' - ANDREW FEINSTEIN in conversation with VIJAY PRASHAD DESCRIPTION:PEACE ACTIVISTS UNCOVER THE TRUTH OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE BUSINESS IN THE WORLD \n\n\n\nEquips readers with the information they need to resist the lies that feed humanity’s urge to commit suicide. Read it!’ – Yanis Varoufakis \n\n\n\nHousmans are very excited to welcome the legendary ANDREW FEINSTEIN and VIJAY PRASHAD to the shop discuss a vital new text from Pluto Press: Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How the Global Arms Trade is Ruining the World and What We Can Do About It\, co-edited by Andrew\, Rhona Michie\, Paul Rogers and Jeremy Corbyn \n\n\n\nWe are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media\, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet\, from Gaza to Ukraine\, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if we are to end it. \n\n\n\nMonstrous Anger of the Guns lays bare the dark and deceitful world of the global arms trade\, which\, often funded in our name\, is a business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Leading activists and campaigners connect the dots\, showing how notions of citizenship\, democracy and trust in governments are misguided\, and how we can fight back by building mass movements\, using direct action and legal justice to end the flow of weapons and the environmental and human devastation they bring. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAndrew Feinstein is the Executive Director of Shadow World Investigations. Andrew resigned as an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa in 2001\, in protest at the government’s refusal to investigate corruption in a $10 billion arms deal. His first book\, After the Party\, reveals the impact of this deal. He also wrote the critically-acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade\, and worked on an award-winning feature documentary\, Shadow World. Andrew appears regularly in a range of global media\, has contributed chapters on arms trade issues for a number of volumes\, and was named amongst the 100 most influential people in the world working in armed violence reduction by Action On Armed Violence. He serves on the Advisory Boards of The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa\, Lighthouse Reports\, Declassified UK\, and Demilitarise Education. \n\n\n\nVijay Prashad (PhD) is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of forty books\, including Washington Bullets\, Red Star Over the Third World\, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His latest book On Cuba (New Press\, 2024) was written with Noam Chomsky. He is Executive Director of The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter. He is also the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi) and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies\, Renmin University of China. He has appeared in two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017). \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-monstrous-anger-of-the-guns-andrew-feinstein-in-conversation-with-vijay-prashad/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/5482.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241002T123548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T123653Z UID:60894-1731438000-1731447000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK DISCUSSION: 'The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament' - Martin Shaw in conversation with Kate Hudson DESCRIPTION:Help us celebrate the publication of Professor Martin Shaw’s ‘whirlwind tour’ of the CND and its history\, a organistion very close to Housman’s heart\, culturally and historically intertwined with us and the larger peace movement. \n\n\n\nThe launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw details CND’s rise\, the activists involved\, the tensions with the Committee of 100 around direct action\, and the culture\, radicalism and social groups that were mobilized to “ban the bomb”. \n\n\n\nThe book discusses how a new movement in the 1980s\, led by European Nuclear Disarmament and the Greenham women’s peace camp\, helped remove cruise missiles from Europe and end the Cold War. It examines how the campaign influenced – and was influenced by – antiwar movements from Vietnam to Iraq and Gaza\, as well as the environmental and women’s movements. \n\n\n\nAs the nuclear threat returns in the 2020s\, this study shows that the antinuclear movement’s ideas and the non-violent direct action it pioneered still reverberate in the campaign against the UK’s “nuclear deterrent” – and in protest movements from Stop the War to Extinction Rebellion. \n\n\n\nMartin will be joined in conversation with CND’s General Secretary\, and long term friend of Housmans\, Kate Hudson. \n\n\n\nPRAISE FOR THE BOOK: \n\n\n\n“This whirlwind tour of CND’s history provides an accessible account of the political context\, campaigning dynamics and significant impact of Britain’s most enduring mass movement. Taking in key stops like Aldermaston\, Greenham Common\, Vietnam and Iraq\, Shaw tells the story of this powerful grass-roots movement and brings it right up to date – as it continues to fight for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Well worth a read.” – Kate Hudson\, General Secretary\, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament \n\n\n\n“The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the centre of anti-nuclear protest in the UK for six decades. Martin Shaw has written a stimulating\, balanced and comprehensive account of its remarkable history – something we all need to know about if we are to find ways to act in the face of renewed nuclear dangers including explicit nuclear threats\, the unravelling of nuclear arms control\, and the development of new generations of nuclear weapons.” – Mary Kaldor\, Director\, Conflict Research Programme\, London School of Economics \n\n\n\n“Shaw expertly synthesizes over 75 years of anti-nuclear protests and resistance into one compelling\, highly readable\, short history. The result is the single best survey of the anti-nuclear movement in Britain\, told judiciously by one of its long-term participants and a respected scholar of international relations.” – Christopher R. Hill\, Associate Professor of History\, University of South Wales \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-discussion-the-campaign-for-nuclear-disarmament-martin-shaw-in-conversation-with-kate-hudson/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/9781788217774.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241113T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241113T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241003T123702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241024T104752Z UID:60999-1731524400-1731529800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'Colin Ward: the anarchist tradition and do-it-yourself urbanism' with Verity-Jane Keefe and Ken Worpole DESCRIPTION:AUTONOMY NOW! PRESENT: ‘Colin Ward: the anarchist tradition and do-it-yourself urbanism’ with Verity-Jane Keefe and Ken Worpole\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nENTRY FOR THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT PLEASE RSVP USING THE LINK AT BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE \n\n\n\n2024 marks the centenary of the birth of Britain’s most famous anarchist\, Colin Ward\, and the publication of Mutual Aid\, Everyday Anarchy: Essays on Colin Ward (Five Leaves\, 2024). Ward wrote more than 30 books\, whose ideas and writings remain influential across the world\, including ‘The Child in the City’\, ‘Arcadia for All’\, ‘Reflected in Water’ and ‘When We Build Again’. Artist-activist Verity-Jane Keefe and writer Ken Worpole discuss Ward’s community-based\, self-reliant urbanism\, prioritising social networks as being at the heart of everyday life in towns and cities\, Ward’s anarchist approach playing a major influence on their own working practices. \n\n\n\nVerity-Jane Keefe is one of the UK’s pre-eminent urban public artists\, currently working with Towner Gallery (Eastbourne)\, Eastside Projects (Birmingham) and a Pre-Doc candidate with ZHdK (Zurich). Other recent commissions include Lead Artist on the Design Team for the Moorings Sociable Club on the Thamesmead Estate\, documented in her new book From Social to Sociable\, lead artist for the centenary of Becontree\, delivering ‘Living Together’\, an ambitious art project including a solo exhibition\, new collection\, palm tree planting\, and new tenant’s handbook which was distributed by letterbox to 27\,000 residents. \n\n\n\n‘Living Together’ marked the end of a 15-year period working in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham\, as artist in residence working with planning policy\, archives and heritage departments\, housing and regeneration on a variety of self-initiated and invited projects\, including the now-renowned ‘Mobile Museum’. \n\n\n\nKen Worpole is a writer and social historian\, and author of books on architecture\, landscape and public policy. For many years he has also pursued a particular interest in the social history and landscape of 20th century Essex\, about which he has written extensively. The New Statesman observed recently that: ‘Worpole is a literary original\, a social and architectural historian whose books combine the Orwellian ideal of common decency with understated erudition.’ Andrew Kelly is former Director of Bristol Ideas. He is a visiting professor at the University of the West of England and has written or edited 20 books on subjects ranging from film and cinema to aviation and Bristol’s rich cultural history. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHOSTED BY AUTONOMY NOW! https://autonomynow.noblogs.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-colin-ward-the-anarchist-tradition-and-do-it-yourself-urbanism-with-verity-jane-keefe-and-ken-worpole/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Mutual-Aid-Everyday-Anarchy-Essays-on-Colin-Ward.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241115T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241115T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241105T170751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241112T143337Z UID:62150-1731697200-1731704400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It by Natalie Fenton DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the launch of Natalie Fenton’s urgent new book: Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It. A free media is inextricably linked to a healthy democracy\, but in many parts of the world liberal democracies are deemed to be dying or on the demise – a demise that many forms of media have enabled while heralding themselves as democracy’s saviour. The hollowing out of democracy in these ways has left many people questioning the value of (neo)liberal democratic societies. What can we do about it? \n\n\n\nDemocratic Delusions explores the potential of our media and tech systems to be democratic and contribute to a just and transformative democracy. This is only possible\, Natalie Fenton argues\, by first situating our political systems and mediated worlds within global capitalism. By interrogating different media and their relationship to seven key elements of democracy – power\, participation\, freedom\, equality\, public good\, trust\, and hope – the book asks: What is the response of society when the ability of news media to speak truth to power has been restricted by corporate logic? And\, how do we tackle a deep-rooted market logic that shifts public debate towards private interest and marginalizes progressive perspectives? The book explores how these elements can be reimagined through newly conceived media and tech landscapes and\, ultimately\, what democracy might be in a future mediated world that places more power in the hands of more people. \n\n\n\nThis is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communications\, journalism\, political communications\, political science\, and sociology. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event. \n\n\n\nFeel free to BYOB! \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-democratic-delusions-how-the-media-hollows-out-democracy-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-by-natalie-fenton/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/1509548475.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241120T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241120T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241008T130118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241120T125325Z UID:61132-1732129200-1732136400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road by Gareth Dennis DESCRIPTION:Please join us for what is promising to be a really engaging and informative talk with railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis. His new book How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world for us all. \n\n\n\nThe world’s railways were almost entirely created by capital and empire for extraction and exploitation\, so what right do they have to exist and how can they be harnessed for good? Railway engineer and writer Gareth Dennis builds a case not simply for railways as a common good\, but argues that railways are a critical tool for humanity to survive and thrive. Whether it’s the power of organised labour\, the threats and opportunities of new technology\, the distribution of democratic power or the calamitous impacts of climate change\, railways can act as a lens through which to understand the future and the part they can play in it.Dennis takes us across the globe\, from Virgin Hyperloop’s abandoned test track in the Nevada desert to the overcrowded stations of the North of England\, exploring how railways can shape and inform choices about our future\, and in turn detailing how taking a long-term view can help shape transport for the better. With his deep knowledge of railways and his unique view of history and politics\, he equips us with the tools to answer those imperative questions: what and who should our railways be for? \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:15 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-how-the-railways-will-fix-the-future-rediscovering-the-essential-brilliance-of-the-iron-road-by-gareth-dennis/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/How-The-Railways-Will-Fix-The-Future-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241123T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241123T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241023T130719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241119T172829Z UID:61449-1732388400-1732395600@housmans.com SUMMARY:CANCELLED: A Man With No Title by Xavier Le Clerc DESCRIPTION:DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED \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-talk-a-man-with-no-title-by-xavier-le-clerc/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/9780863569821_Final-411x635-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241127T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241127T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241003T110332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241119T181515Z UID:60982-1732734000-1732739400@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Reclaiming the Future: A Beginner's Guide to Planning the Economy' with Simon Hannah DESCRIPTION:‘Reclaiming the Future: A Beginner’s Guide to Planning the Economy’ with Simon Hannah\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a world gripped by endless crisis and climate breakdown\, the demand to reshape our economic system has never been more urgent. Reclaiming the Future by Simon Hannah is a beginner’s guide to planning the economy\, taking readers on a transformative journey towards a radically democratic society\, where the power and control over our lives are firmly in our hands. \n\n\n\nDecades of right-wing scaremongering has tried to consign economic planning to the dustbin\, but the need for it is greater than ever – it might be the only thing that can save us from climate catastrophe. In this myth-busting and accessible guide\, Hannah lays the building blocks for a grassroots economy that aligns our economy within human needs and environmental limits. \n\n\n\nLet’s discuss how ecosocialism might work\, including the lessons of the command planned economies of the 20th century and how it can be different next time. \n\n\n\nSimon Hannah is a writer\, activist\, and trade unionist living in South London. He is an assistant branch secretary in UNISON and has written several books\, including A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left\, which was a Guardian Book of the Day. \n\n\n\n‘A convincing case for socialist democratic planning as the only way to meet the needs of billions of humans without destroying the planet and other species. And it offers a political strategy for how you can fight for such a world.‘- Michael Roberts\, economist and author of Capitalism in the 21st Century \n\n\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/reclaiming-the-future-a-beginners-guide-to-planning-the-economy-with-simon-hannah/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Reclaiming-The-Future-Simon-Hannah.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241129T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241129T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241008T163223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241112T142649Z UID:61168-1732906800-1732914000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: The New Flesh: Life and Death In The Data Economy by Adam C. Jones DESCRIPTION:Just over a year on from last year’s brilliant live podcast recording with Acid Horizon we’re thrilled to welcome back one part of that infamous triumvirate! Adam C. Jones will be returning to Housmans to discuss his alert\, and horrifying\, new work of cybertheory: \n\n\n\n The New Flesh: Life and Death In The Data Economy. \n\n\n\nFrom social media to so-called ‘AI’\, from cyberpunk society to automated apartheid\, The New Flesh asks and answers the same questions: What does it mean to live in an increasingly online world and what is it doing to us? The thesis is this: Data production has permeated everyday life\, on platforms that addict the bored and enslave the dispossessed. Communication has taken on an accelerated viral character\, life is rendered ever more as a profitable simulation of itself\, and new fascisms arise to disseminate themselves through cyberspace and develop their imperial weaponry. The platform is a factory for producing content\, and security technologies are increasingly being trained by human beings displaced and enclosed within digitalized plantations. When we can understand the interconnections between the internet and the empire\, we can fight back. By fusing Marx and Engels with William Burroughs\, Mark Fisher\, and contemporary Queer Theory\, Adam C. Jones takes cybernetic philosophy beyond hype and hyperbole\, presenting a materialist politics of the psychological and economic relations that permeate cyberspace today. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, event starts circa 7:15 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nYOU ARE ACTIVELY ENCOURAGED TO BYOB \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-lauch-the-new-flesh-life-and-death-in-the-data-economy-by-adam-c-jones/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/jhp66d6e7ab74cec.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241206T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241023T151934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T171315Z UID:61475-1733511600-1733518800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'Cities Made Differently' by DAVID GRAEBER & NIKA DUBROVSKY DESCRIPTION:We are honored to be welcoming Nika Dubrovsky to Housmans on December 6th to celebrate the publication of a marvelous new text\, co-written with the late David Graeber\, called Cities Made Differently. Joining Nika in conversation will the inimitable organiser and writer James Schneider. \n\n\n\nFull of playful graphics\, provocative questions\, and curious facts\, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. \n\n\n\nWhat makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky\, the late anthropologist David Graeber\, and Nika’s then four-year-old son\, this delightful and provocative book Cities Made Differently opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology\, literature\, play\, and drawing\, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth\, science and imagination\, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit—because we can\, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true. \n\n\n\nWith inspired pictures and prompts\, Cities Made Differently asks what a city is\, or could be\, or once was. Sleeping at the bottom of the ocean? Buried in lava? What were those cities of long ago\, and what will the cities of the future be? They might be virtual\, ruled by AI\, or islands of beautiful architecture afloat in seas of greenery. They might be utopian places of refuge or refugee camps as far as the eye can see. On land\, underground or aloft\, excavated or imagined\, cities\, this book tells us in provocative and funny ways\, can be anything we want them to be—and what we want them to be can tell us something about who we are\, what it is to be human\, and what’s possible when we make way for wonder. \n\n\n\nPlease feel free to bring your own drinks. We look forward to seeing you and contemplating together what a city is\, and what it could be\, and honoring the memory of our lost and much loved comrade David. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, event starts circa 7:15. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-cities-made-differently-by-david-graeber-nika-dubrovsky/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/91voyX7S6L._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241222T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241222T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241204T153927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T154231Z UID:62836-1734876000-1734883200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Poetry for the Many : Jeremy Corbyn In-Store Signing 2-4pm\, Sunday 22nd December 2024 DESCRIPTION:For full information on this event\, and to book your place at the signing please follow this link.Only those who have pre-ordered the book via the link will be able to attend. No additional copies of the book will be availble on the day. \n\n\n\n\nPoetry for the Many : Jeremy Corbyn In-Store Signing 22nd December 2-4pm 2024 \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/poetry-for-the-many-jeremy-corbyn-in-store-signing-2-4pm-sunday-22nd-december-2024/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/9781682194331.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250111T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250111T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20241219T112821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241219T123228Z UID:63216-1736622000-1736627400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Reasons to Rebel by Sheila Rowbotham DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a evening with celebrated socialist-feminist Sheila Rowbotham\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are thrilled to welcome Sheila Rowbotham back to Housmans and to celebrate the latest volume of her memoirs\, Reasons to Rebel: My Memories of the 1980s\, a defiant\, thrilling\, at times greatly moving\, reflection on the the Thatcher era. It was the worst of times\, it was the best of times… \n\n\n\n“The 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government battered left movements\, painfully disrupted working-class peoples’ livelihoods and pressed down on many groups who faced discrimination. There was no shortage of reasons to rebel. Along with thousands upon thousands of others I opposed not just the repressive laws\, but the fundamental tenets of the new right. Hanging on to visions of creative utopias\, we strove for new ways of organizing and relating to others and we sought to connect a liberatory sexual politics with rebellions against many kinds of inequality. We argued wrote\, campaigned\, demonstrated\, picketed.We established alternative cooperative projects\, secured reforms through local government and made direct international links. Resourceful resistance slowed down the onslaught but we were contending not simply with the doctrinal resolve of a right-wing government. We faced something larger\, something that could not be voted out – a more ruthless global capitalism\, geared to profits which was prepared to dump hard-won social provision and neglect to conserve even basic infrastructure.” \n\n\n\nSheila Rowbotham is an English socialist feminist theorist and historian. She is the author of many books in the field of women’s studies\, including Hidden from History (1973)\, Beyond the Fragments (1979)\, A Century of Women (1997) and Threads Through Time (1999)\, as well as the 2021 memoir Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-reasons-to-rebel-by-sheila-rowbotham/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Sheil-Rowbotham-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250204T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20250107T154932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250107T155733Z UID:63462-1738695600-1738702800@housmans.com SUMMARY:2016 by Sarah Hesketh: Publication Party DESCRIPTION:Please note that this is an externally organised event. Please RSVP info@cbeditions.com to attend. \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/2016-by-sarah-hesketh-publication-party/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250207T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20250113T153717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T100851Z UID:63658-1738954800-1738962000@housmans.com SUMMARY:the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 4.0\, a literary salon DESCRIPTION:the87press presents Hummingbirds 4.0\, a literary salon at Housemans Bookshop \n\n\n\n7 – 9pm at the Housmans Bookshop\, London\, N1 9DY \n\n\n\nFor our first 2025 literary salon we will welcome Waithera Sebatindira and Azad Ashim Sharma who will read from their recent works\, Through an Addict’s Looking Glass (Hajar Press\, 2023) and Boiled Owls(Out Spoken Press\, 2024). Both these texts work their way through the throes and trials of addiction and contend with the promises of recovery. \n\n\n\nAfter their readings\, Waithera and Azad will be in conversation with Dr Abeera Khan (SOAS) to discuss their work. \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted at Housmans Bookshop and is free with registration. Please kindly register in advance as we have limited capacity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWaithera Sebatindira is an East African writer based in London. They are the author of Through an Addict’s Looking Glass (Hajar Press\, 2023) and their work has appeared in Vittles\, DOPE\, and Art + Christianity \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAzad Ashim Sharma is the director of the87press and serves as poetry editor at Philosophy and Global Affairs and the CLR James Journal. He is a PhD Candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College\, University of London. He is the author of three poetry collections\, most recently\, Boiled Owls(Nightboat Books\, 2024). His second collection Ergastulum: Vignettes of Lost Time(Broken Sleep Books\, 2022) was the recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award. He lives in South London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbeera Khan is Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality at the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies. She has published on the interrelatedness between empire\, gender\, race and sexuality in The Contrapuntal\, Feminist Review\, Feminist Formations\, lambda Nordica and Religion and Gender. She is co-editor of ‘Abolitions: Writing Against Abandonment’\, a 40th anniversary special issue of Wasafiri Magazine. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHIS IS A FREE EVENT\, PLEASE REGISTER AT: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the87press-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-40-a-literary-salon-tickets-1152453321909?aff=oddtdtcreator \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/the87press-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-4-0-a-literary-salon/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_934327833_474293806803_1_original.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20250113T110959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T175101Z UID:63617-1739386800-1739394000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Celebrating David Graeber DESCRIPTION:On February 12\, 2025 — his birthday — we will be celebrating the life and thought of the much missed David Graeber. Joining us will be David’s friend\, the writer\, activist\, and organizer James Schneider and the philosopher Sophie Scott Brown\, who has recently written a new foreword for the 20th-anniversary reissue of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Joining us from New York will be David’s wife and long term collaborator\, Nika Dubrovsky. James\, Sophie and Nika will discuss David’s life and work\, his principals of anarchism and anthropology\, before we open things up for a wider conversation with our audiences in London and New York. \n\n\n\nThis a free event. There is limited capacity in the shop so please RSVP below to ensure attendance. If your plans change and you are unable to attend please email us at shop@housmans.com so your space can be made available to someone else. \n\n\n\nThis event is a celebration and in the spirit of that you are free to byob. A small amount of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available at Housmans too. \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/celebrating-david-graeber/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/David-Graeber-009-1.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250214T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250214T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20250113T133012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T173230Z UID:63630-1739559600-1739565000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Housmans x London Bookshop Crawl: Ellen Jones launches OUTRAGE DESCRIPTION:Housmans and the London Bookshop Crawl are delighted to welcome Ellen Jones to King’s Cross to celebrate the launch of OUTRAGE: Why The Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won And What We Can Do About It\, published by Bluebird Pan Macmillan. \n\n\n\nAlready named a Foyles Top 10 Recommended Read for 2025\, this groundbreaking and essential book sheds light on the ongoing challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people worldwide. Despite greater visibility in mainstream culture\, LGBTQ+ communities continue to encounter unacceptable levels of prejudice and danger—from rising homophobic and transphobic violence to the rollback of rights across the globe. In Outrage\, author and activist Ellen Jones explores these issues in depth\, examining their impact across education\, sports\, religion\, marriage\, mental health\, and more. \n\n\n\nIn searing prose\, punctuated with personal accounts from LGBTQ+ people from across the globe\, Jones sets out not only the issues but also practical actions\, both big and small\, that all of us can take to help create a more equal society. What’s more\, she shines a spotlight on the amazing individuals already working hard to change things. \n\n\n\nWhether you are a member of the LGBTQ+ community\, an ally\, or simply care about human rights and equality\, Outrage is essential\, and illuminating\, reading. \n\n\n\nJoining Ellen in conversation will be Jodie Lancet-Grant\, Editor and Associate Publisher at Pan Macmillan imprint Bluebird and the author of LGBTQ+-inclusive picture books published by Oxford University Press. Her book The Pirate Mums made history when it became the first book featuring a two-mum family to be read as a Cbeebies Bedtime Story\, by Sue Perkins. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/housmans-x-london-bookshop-crawl-ellen-jones-launces-outrage/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OUTRAGE_Postcard_Back.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250219T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250219T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20250114T115739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T120252Z UID:63723-1739991600-1739997000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Neuroqueer: A Neurodivergent Guide to Love\, Sex\, and Everything in Between by Cj Debarra DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to be welcoming the wonderful journalist and public speaker CJ DeBarra to talk about their essential guide to love\, sex and dating while neurodivergent. \n\n\n\nHitting their mid-thirties and still uncertain about relationships\, sex\, and love\, CJ DeBarra launched into a quest for understanding. Growing up in West Cork\, Ireland\, CJ knew they were ADHD\, but its implications remained mysterious. To write this book\, they drew on academic research\, medical studies\, the lived experience of other queer ADHD individuals\, and their background as an ADHD journalist. CJ fearlessly explored the raw realities of heartbreak\, love\, and sexuality\, and delved into the complexities of desire\, the impact of distractions during intimacy\, the role of dopamine\, and the allure of unconventional sexual experiences. Moreover\, CJ sheds light on alarmingly low diagnosis rates for women\, transgender individuals\, and non-binary individuals\, urging readers to advocate for improved healthcare. \n\n\n\nThis book also has a wider focus\, which explores the reasons why the diagnosis rates are so low for women\, transgender and non-binary folk\, why this matters\, and why we should be demanding better healthcare. \n\n\n\nJoin CJ on a voyage of self-discovery\, where vulnerability\, courage\, and unwavering determination unravel the mysteries of relationships\, sex\, and love for ADHD individuals and their loved ones. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-neuroqueer-a-neurodivergent-guide-to-love-sex-and-everything-in-between-by-cj-debarra/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/9781911227236_360x.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T235740 CREATED:20250113T160729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250218T180741Z UID:63669-1740078000-1740083400@housmans.com SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Book Launch: MINING MEN by Emily Webber DESCRIPTION:WE APOLOGISE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES – IF YOU BOOKED A TICKET YOU WILL BE CONTACTED SHORTLY\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe are thrilled to be welcoming Emily P. Webber to the shop to launch her facinating\, and often deeply moving story of the last generation of British miners; told through the lives of the men who carved out their identities at the coalface. This is the story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons\, brothers and comrades\, big hitters and broken men\, strikers and scabs. Men for whom the masculine world of the pit was all they had ever known\, who reluctantly emerged into the daylight for the final time\, and others who were happier to consign the dust and darkness to the past. \n\n\n\nIt reveals the emotional impact of pit closures and what happened next; former miners who became factory workers; detectives; driving instructors; counsellors; the local mayor; one who even ended up working on Fleet Street. Featuring accounts from Ayrshire to the South Wales Valleys\, from the ‘People’s Republic of South Yorkshire’\, to the ‘Sunshine Corner Coalfields’ of East Kent\, each chapter offers a different perspective of the industry. For some of these men\, it is their first time opening up about the realities of life underground. \n\n\n\nBritain’s last deep coal mine closed in 2015\, yet just fifty years ago the mining industry was a juggernaut\, employing over 250\,000 workers. Combining new personal interviews with extensive archival research\, Emily P. Webber illuminates the extraordinary history of the industry once considered the backbone of Britain. \n\n\n\nBy situating the miners’ strike of 1984–85 in a longer history of the coalfields\, we can understand why miners and their families fought so hard against pit closures\, and their effect on these men and their communities once the pit wheels stopped turning. Vivid\, evocative\, and richly alive with minute detail\, Mining Men explores what the mining industry once meant to its workers and their communities\, and what Britain lost when it was gone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily P. Webber completed a PhD at the University of Reading & University of Exeter\, her research focused on masculinity and the British mining industry\, from nationalisation in 1947 to pit closures. \n\n\n\nBorn in South Yorkshire\, Emily has spoken to over a hundred former miners over the last five years\, collecting their memories of the industry and travelling to their communities. She was previously the Research Manager at the Imperial War Museum and contributed to several public-facing publications\, including as assistant curator for the award-winning Holocaust Exhibition. She is passionate about bringing history to wider audiences\, being recently selected as one of fifteen successful candidates for the Television Festival’s TV PhD talent scheme. Emily has previously had her work published in History Workshop\, Journal\, Contemporary British History and Twentieth Century History. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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-mining-men-by-emily-webber/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Mining-Men-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR