Events
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FREE: Post-election Celebration/Commiseration
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonWe're dreaming of a Red Christmas... Whether we're celebrating or commiserating, Housmans will have your back this December 13th. Join us between 2pm and 4pm for emoting, catharsis and like-minded company, with drinks, snacks and 20% discount on selected UK politics titles. No booking needed, just show up!
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Repeater Takeover: ‘Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity’ with Nathalie Olah and Vicky Spratt
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonJoin journalists Nathalie Olah and Vicky Spratt to discuss the current state of today’s arts, media and cultural industries, at a time when a radical cultural response to our political moment is needed more than ever. Steal as Much as You Can is the story of how a generation that was lost for most of […]
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Repeater Takeover: ‘New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England’ with Alex Niven and Juliet Jacques
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonSOLD OUT Join Alex Niven and Juliet Jacquesto discuss the problem of “Englishness” and England, and explore the themes of Niven’s recently-published book New Model Island. New Model Island is essential reading for those who want to critically understand "Englishness” and the twilight of England. Masterfully ranging across poetry, pop music,memoir, history and utopian conjecture, […]
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Repeater Takeover: ‘Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation’ with Grace Blakeley and Aaron Bastani
Join Grace Blakeley and Aaron Bastani to discuss how finance capitalism has been allowed to steal our economies, our environment, and even the future itself, and how we can – and must – change course. We are at a critical juncture. The ‘recovery’ since the 2008 financial crisis has masked wage stagnation and the growth […]
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Autonomy Now presents: ‘Journey Through Utopia’ with Matthew S. Adams, Rhiannon Firth, and Tim Waterman
January’s Autonomy Now event considers utopian thought in dystopian times. Join Matthew S. Adams, Rhiannon Firth, and Tim Waterman for a lively discussion about historical and contemporary visions of utopia, framed with reference to the life and writings of Marie Louise Berneri, author of Journey through Utopia. Book description: Journey through Utopia is a richly detailed and critically […]
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Poetry Against Homelessness
We’re very excited to welcome back New River Press for an evening of wild and inspiring poetry and music performances by people who have experienced homelessness and the poets who have tutored them. It’s in celebration of the project I AM NOT WHO YOU THINK I AM. Since June ‘19 New River Press have teamed […]
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‘The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and the Nation in Twenty-First Century Britain’ with Sivamohan Valluvan and Gargi Bhattacharyya
THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception, and in the midst of Brexit, it has even become a vanguard of nationalism's confident return to the mainstream. Intellectual attempts to account for nationalism's resurgence have however […]
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‘In and Against the State: Lessons from our recent past’ with Rosemary Grennan and Seth Wheeler
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonTo mark the 40th anniversary of the influential text 'In and Against the State', this talk will draw on historical material to trace this seemingly contradictory idea as an identifiable tendency in the history of the Left. Through exploring historical relationships between autonomous social movements and their attempts to exert power through institutional and parliamentarian […]
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‘So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron’ with Susie Thomas, Nadia Valman, and Ken Worpole
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonThe novelist Alexander Baron (1917-1999) was born into a working class Jewish home in Hackney, joined the Communist Party as a young man, saw the thick of battle in Sicily and Normandy, and became one of the most admired writers of post-war Britain. His first novel, From the City, From the Plough (1948), was acclaimed as the […]
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Autonomy Now presents: ‘Occult Features of Anarchism’ with Erica Lagalisse and Carl Levy
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonIn the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution, but in the current century various “conspiracy theories” suggest that anarchists are controlled by government itself. The Illuminati were a network of intellectuals who argued for self-government and against private property, yet the public is now often told that they were […]
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Stormlight Book Launch with Jan Woolf
Riversmeet Press invites you to the Housmans launch of Stormlight by Jan Woolf Stories - short and long- setting ordinary people against big themes; love, war, loss, contemporary politics and the search for fulfilment. Like the author’s first collection Fugues on a Funny Bone they are funny, witty and acerbic as well as serious. Stormlight […]
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‘Feminism for the 99%’ with Sara Farris and Susan Pashkoff.
Discussion on a feminism that is anticapitalist, eco-socialist and antiracist, introduced by Sara Farris and Susan Pashkoff. Free entry but please register via Eventbrite. makes a simple but powerful case: feminism shouldn’t start—or stop—with the drive to have women represented at the top of their professions. It must focus on those at the bottom, and […]
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‘A Nuclear Refrain: emotion, empire and the democratic potential of protest’ with Kelvin Mason, Philip Johnstone and Lotte Reimer
Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, LondonIn 2020, the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved closer than ever to global destruction: humanity has just 100 seconds left to take action. While climate change and cyber-warfare grab more headlines, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists forcibly reminded us that the nuclear arms race is also running out of control. A Nuclear Refrain enlivens […]
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A Kingdom of Love: Rachel Mann in conversation with Roz Kaveney ***CANCELLED***
***We're really sorry to hear that our speaker Rachel Mann is presenting symptoms and is self-isolating. This event is now therefore cancelled. Tickets will be refunded. We hope Rachel feels better soon*** We are very excited to announce a poetry event at Housmans in collaboration with Carcanet Press, one of the outstanding independent literary publishers […]
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AUTONOMY NOW! presents: ‘Dead White Anarchists’ performed by Paul Case ***RELOCATED***
**This event is no longer taking place at Housmans but the organisers hope to host it at an alternative venue - please visit the Autonomy Now website for updates** Paris, 1892. If you're not rich, things looks bleak. Exploitation, starvation and disease are daily realities for many. Police crackdowns and political bombings tear the city […]
