BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.18.1//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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260905T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260905T203000 DTSTAMP:20260825T131709Z CREATED:20260825T131707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T131709Z UID:81924-1788633000-1788640200@housmans.com SUMMARY:PANEL: Noisy Business: Thought Daughters DESCRIPTION:What’s Noisy Business? \n\n\n\n​The brainchild of best friends and frequent chatty patties\, Erène Bennett and Haaniyah Awale Angus\, Noisy Business is a bimonthly roundtable series born out of our desire to bring the digital world offline. \n\n\n\n​We don’t think that Noisy alone can fix the gaping issues within cultural commentary\, but we do believe that conversations with one another in real life are a necessary first step. Erène and I often talk about various discourses\, revelling in how communicating in person can make our disagreements\, frustrations\, and complex beliefs (read: complex\, not bigoted) about topics such as feminism\, AI\, body image\, film criticism\, and grief so much easier to navigate. \n\n\n\n​And how are we doing this? \n\n\n\n​We want to curate these same conversations in public\, with a small\, select audience\, panellists we have long admired\, and an open Q&A format to turn our online discourse into real-life action\, or at least\, a fun 45-50 minute break from our phones. \n\n\n\n​Our first roundtable will centre on “thought daughters” and misogynoir. \n\n\n\n​A thought daughter is “an aesthetic largely based on niche memes on Pinterest that describe a persona of an intelligent\, sophisticated young woman\, likely in her twenties\,” aka women who read\, write\, yap\, and\, as FKA Twigs once said\, attempt to fill up the ever-growing vacuum of thinkers in an age of misinformation. On TikTok\, these women are often accused of performativity and\, as such\, find themselves on a tightrope\, revered for their intellect whilst just as quickly facing the brunt of being young\, vocal and online. \n\n\n\n​In particular\, what does this look like when thinking of young Black women who find success through their online visibility but quickly realise that the price they pay for being so visible can often lead to increased harassment\, racism and dismissal of said knowledge? \n\n\n\n​That’s the question we’ve asked our roundtable\, made up of writer Shaniya Odulawa\, journalist Habiba Katsha\, and archivist Naz Hamdi. All of whom are incredible Black writers who have spoken on the growing pressure of choosing between your authenticity and having to perform for audiences built on heralding you as a genius to the point of dehumanisation. \n\n\n\n​The answer? Well\, you’re gonna have to join us to find out. See you there! \n\n\n\nTICKETS: https://luma.com/3876ibb1\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPlease note this is an externally organised event. For any queries please contact: contact@haaniyah.co.uk \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/panel-noisy-business-thought-daughters/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/THOTDAUGHTERS.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260912T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260912T210000 DTSTAMP:20260804T135202Z CREATED:20260804T122203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T135202Z UID:81144-1789239600-1789246800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Housmans Poetry Series: Jay Gao DESCRIPTION:For our next poetry evening we welcome to London the marvellously talented Jay Gao! He will be launching his mysterious\, stirring new collection\, ‘The Dead One\, The Unconscious One\, Thundering in your ear\, Thriving Slumber’\, published by Carcanet. \n\n\n\nJoining him we welcome a whole host of incredible poets: Dom Hale\, Alycia Pirmohamed\, Victoria Adukwei Bulley\, Azad Ashim Sharma\, Will Harris\, Nina Mingya Powles\, and Mantra Mukim. \n\n\n\nOUR POETS:\n\n\n\nJay Gao is a poet and writer from Edinburgh\, Scotland\, living in New York City. His second poetry collection The Dead One\, The Unconscious One\, Thundering in Your Ear\, Thriving Slumber is forthcoming in Fall 2026 from Nightboat Books and Carcanet Press. His debut collection Imperium (2022) was a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize\, an Eric Gregory Award\, and a Somerset Maugham Award. \n\n\n\nDom Hale is an editor of Ludd Gang\, the magazine of the Poets’ Hardship Fund\, and Chaff Press. His recent books of poetry include First Nettles (The Last Books\, 2025) and Faint Portal (Distance No Object\, 2023)\, as well as two collaborations with the poet Tom Crompton: Mud Ramps\, an essay on poetics\, and Earthstepper\, two translations from the Exeter Book (both Gong Farm\, 2025 and 2026). \n\n\n\nAlycia Pirmohamed is the author of the collection Another Way to Split Water and a co-author of the collaborative pamphlet this too is a glistening. Her nonfiction debut Shorelines is newly out with Canongate Books\, and her second book of poems\, Then the Lake Shifts is forthcoming next year.  \n\n\n\nVictoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet\, writer\, and artist whose work has appeared widely in publications including the London Review of Books\, LitHub\, and The Atlantic. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award\, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry book\, QUIET\, won the Folio Prize for Poetry\, the John Pollard International Poetry Prize\, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber in the UK and in North America by Alfred A. Knopf. \n\n\n\nAzad Ashim Sharma is the director of the87press and as Editor at Philosophy and Global Affairs\, the CLR James Journal\, and The Hythe Review. 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 / Out-Spoken Press\, 2024) which was shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize. His second collection Ergastulum: Vignettes of Lost Time (Broken Sleep Books\, 2022) was the recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Guillén Award. In July 2025\, Azad was inaugurated as the Poet Laureate of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He lives in South London. \n\n\n\nWill Harris is a London-based writer. He is the author of the poetry books RENDANG (2020) and Brother Poem (2023)\, published by Granta and Wesleyan University Press\, and the essay Mixed-Race Superman (Peninsula Press\, 2018). He has won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. He co-translated Habib Tengour’s Consolatio (Poetry Translation Centre) with Delaina Haslam in 2022\, and helps facilitate the Southbank New Poets Collective with Vanessa Kisuule. Siblings\, a conversation between Harris\, Jay Bernard\, Mary Jean Chan\, and Nisha Ramayya\, was published by Monitor Books in 2024. He received a Burgess Fellowship from the University of Manchester and was a Fellow at the Institute for Ideas & Imagination in Paris from 2024-25. He is currently working on a project about social care.  \n\n\n\nNina Mingya Powles is a writer and poet from Aotearoa New Zealand\, currently based in London. She is the author of a food memoir\, Tiny Moons\, and a collection of essays\, Small Bodies of Water. Her debut poetry collection Magnolia was a finalist for the Ondaatje Prize\, the New Zealand Book Awards\, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her most recent poetry collection\, In the Hollow of the Wave\, was published in 2025. She is currently working on a book about fabric\, sewing and memory.  \n\n\n\nMantra Mukim is a poet and essayist from Raipur\, India\, currently based in Oxford. His debut collection\, Glitchwork (the87press)\, came out in April 2026. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, though you may reserve a copy of Jay’s book if you wish. \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-poetry-series-jay-gao/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Poetry-Series4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260915T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260915T203000 DTSTAMP:20260915T150752Z CREATED:20260727T162821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T150752Z UID:80689-1789498800-1789504200@housmans.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! 'The Rulers:Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud' by Cecilia Rikap DESCRIPTION:please not this event is now sold out. It will be recorded and uploaded onto our youtube channel in the coming days. \n\n\n\nCapitalism’s rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon\, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies. Giants like Disney\, McDonalds\, Nike or Walmart depend on them to use AI for knowledge and value extraction and for disciplining workers. States see some of their core functions sequestered. Innovation is not a free and neutral game\, but a hierarchy topped by the rulers. \n\n\n\nCecilia Rikap’s new theoretical framework is grounded in a unique trove of 112 interviews at the world’s largest firms and data on venture capital\, acquisitions\, open source\, AI conferences and patents. They picture a map of the complexities and political implications of corporate power. In Rikap’s counterimage\, technology is developed by the people and for the people and the planet through democratic planning. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nCecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor in Economics and Head of Research at the University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is also a tenure researcher of the CONICET\, Argentina’s national research council\, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab\, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She is the author of Capitalism\, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered (Routledge)\, which recently won the EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize Competition\, and The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order (Palgrave)\, the latter co-authored with B.A.K. Lundvall. \n\n\n\nAisha Down is an investigative journalist based in London\, covering artificial intelligence for The Guardian. She spent six years at OCCRP reporting on financial crime in the Middle East and Sahel. Her work has appeared in The Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, NPR and other outlets. Her investigation into a multi-billion-dollar money laundering scheme at the Central Bank of Iraq won a 2024 SABEW award for international reporting. She began her career at The Cambodia Daily\, Cambodia’s award-winning national paper. She holds a degree in Physics and English from Harvard University. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \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-launch-the-rulerscorporate-power-in-the-age-of-ai-and-the-cloud-by-cecilia-rikap/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/81sgLbn4aDL._AC_UF8941000_QL80_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260916T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260916T203000 DTSTAMP:20260714T154213Z CREATED:20260714T154210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260714T154213Z UID:80482-1789585200-1789590600@housmans.com SUMMARY:WILD FOLKLORE AND UNRULY WOMEN DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Sulis Kim and Brigid Lowe in conversation\n\n\n\nThe bear deities\, Artio and Artaius\, who’ll rise from sleep; the salmon of wisdom who gifts understanding of the universe’s past\, present and future; the Lion Man carved 40\,000 years ago. Three determined women plot against an ambitious sorcerer\, they are queen Goewin\, the reclusive sorceress Arianrhod\, and Blodeuwedd\, a woman conjured from flowers. \n\n\n\nWhat can we still learn from the ancient\, half-forgotten mythologies of these isles? What can they teach us about ourselves\, about sex\, gender and the role of women in folklore? Two new works at these complex questions in different\, equally engaging and exciting ways. \n\n\n\n Elizabeth Sulis Kim’s The Book of Beasts (Penguin\, 2026) is modern bestiary with an ancient heart\, in it we meet twelve emblematic animals that can help us restore our relationship with the natural world. Steeped in folklore\, mythology\, magic and religion\, The Book of Beasts tells the story of our shapeshifting relationships with animals\, from reverence to persecution\, friendship to fear\, awe to indifference. It asks us what we actually know about the creatures we share this world with – and offers us a different way of living together. \n\n\n\nWhereas Brigid Lowe’s novel The Bloody Branch draws out from celtic mythology some strikingly contemporary concerns. Three powerful heroines unite to avenge themselves on the most dangerous man in ancient legend\, Gwydion a powerful sorcerer whose ambition and cruelty wreak havoc across the kingdom. When at last the earth itself is put at stake\, Goewin\, Arianrhod and Blodeuwedd each unleash their uncanny powers to challenge him. In this vital and visceral novel\, Brigid Lowe casts ancient light on desire\, sex and our relationship with nature to bring these Celtic heroines to explosive\, sensuous\, blossoming new life. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted that Brigid and Elizabeth are able to join for an evening of discussion on the common themes in their work; they will be talking about folklore\, the occult\, Ancient Albion and unruly women. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nElizabeth Sulis Kim‘s writing has appeared in places such as BBC Culture\, Mslexia\, Hellebore\, Fiddler’s Green\, Litro\, The Guardian\, The Independent\, Refinery29\, and the LA Review of Books. She is the founding editor of Cunning Folk\, the popular independent magazine about magic\, mythology\, folklore and the occult. She grew up in the rural West Country and now lives in Scotland. \n\n\n\nBrigid Lowe grew up in a remote Welsh-speaking community on Ynys Môn\, with her younger sister and Irish immigrant parents. She now lives with her children in that part of Scotland known as Yr Hen Ogledd – The Old North – formerly joined with Wales in one Cumbric nation. She studied literature at Bangor\, completed a doctorate at Oxford\, and went on to teach and research at Sheffield and Cambridge Universities\, publishing a book and many essays on the art of fiction. Brigid traces her descent from travellers\, circus performers\, mill workers and gallowglass warriors. She takes photographs of flowers\, forages her food\, clambers pinnacles\, and swims in ice and caves and bottomless pools. \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/wild-folklore-and-unruly-women/ CATEGORIES:Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/preeti-insta.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260923T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260923T203000 DTSTAMP:20260916T133442Z CREATED:20260729T163104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T133442Z UID:80751-1790190000-1790195400@housmans.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! Zack Polanski: Green Socialist? A conversation with Russell Warfield SOLD OUT! DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.COM\n\n\n\nJoin us for a friendly\, stimulating debate Russell Warfield and Jonas Patrick Marvin. They ask: is Zack Polanski\, and the Green Party\, the future of the British Left? \n\n\n\nTo help celebrate the launch of Russell Warfield‘s excellent new book The Green SocialistZack Polanski and the Battle for Britain’s Future (Pluto\, 2026) we invite into a good natured debate with fellow socialist writer Jonas Patrick Marvin\, regular contributor to Salvage and author of The Breaking of the English Working Class (Verso\, 2026). \n\n\n\nIn The Green Socialist\, Russel argues that the election of Zack Polanski to the leadership of the Green Party of England and Wales caused a political earthquake. While Labour haemorrhages support\, the far-right rises and a new anti-capitalist party struggles to be born\, Polanski has seized the initiative\, resulting in record-breaking membership numbers and polling for the Greens. How did Polanski end up being propelled to power on an unprecedented mandate within the membership of the Green Party? And what can he achieve from this position?   \n\n\n\nThe Green Socialist takes a look at the Greens through the lens of its tensions\, limitations and contradictions\, demonstrating that Polanski is the natural culmination of the party’s story so far\, and how it can provide a vehicle for a transformational politics capable of defeating the far-right and building a better Britain. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nRussell Warfield is a communications strategist\, working across climatecampaigning\, politics and the third sector for over a decade. He hasbeen a contributing editor at Resurgence and Ecologist\, and his writinghas appeared in New Statesman\, New Internationalist and Byline Times. \n\n\n\nJonas Patrick Marvin is a writer\, researcher and campaigner based inStoke-on-Trent. He regularly contributes to Salvage and Novara Media andis a host of the popular podcast Life of the Party. \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.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 + 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/zack-polanski-green-socialist-a-conversation-with-russell-warfield/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/9780745352688.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260927T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260927T210000 DTSTAMP:20260811T163042Z CREATED:20260811T162400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260811T163042Z UID:81587-1790535600-1790542800@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: 'AND SUDDENLY INTO NOTHING' by Suzanne Doppelt (translated by Cole Swensen.) DESCRIPTION:Featuring readings from Laynie Browne\, Ágnes Lehóczky\, Cole Swensen & Suzanne Doppelt \n\n\n\nTHIS IS A FREE EVENT\, BUT PLEASE RSVP USING THE LINK BELOW: \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-and-suddenly-into-nothing-by-suzanne-doppelt-translated-by-cole-swensen/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Pamenar-Readin-33-Aug-8-2026-D1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T203000 DTSTAMP:20260925T115702Z CREATED:20260804T114036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260925T115702Z UID:81132-1790794800-1790800200@housmans.com SUMMARY:CHARITY SHOP WORLD! with Tansy E. Hoskins DESCRIPTION:WE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME TANSY E. HOSKINS TO HOUMANS TO TALK ABOUT HER GROUNDBREAKING\, MOVING NEW STUDY OF CHARITY SHOPS AND THE ROLES THEY PLAY IN MODERN CONSUMERIST CULTURE. \n\n\n\n‘Charity shops are ubiquitous and invisible. They anchor the high street\, employ thousands\, process millions of items. Yet far more is written about AI than this staple of 21st century Britain. Thank goodness\, then\, for Tansy Hoskins\, who deftly shows how the charity shop is both an escape from consumerism and an essential part of global capitalism. This is a rich and surprising book\, which takes you both to Accrington and Bangladesh\, providing financial expose as well as character studies.’— Aditya Chakrabortty\, Senior Economics Commentator\, The Guardian \n\n\n\nHave you ever wondered what happens to the contents of the bags you drop off at the charity shop? With over 80 billion pieces of clothing produced each year and with human made stuff now outweighing living biomass\, this is the story of the first sorting site for the deluge of items we discard every single day. Having spent decades exploring charity shops for bargains and treasure\, Tansy Hoskins decided to dig deep into the world of charity shop volunteering. From used underwear to wolf pelts\, Charity Shop World is a personal account of sorting through donations to reveal the entanglement of people and products. This book also investigates the export of clothes to overseas markets and landfill\, revealing hidden shareholders behind a multi-million pound business. \n\n\n\nTaking us to the heart of a country hit by austerity and the cost of living crisis\, Charity Shop World reveals surprising places of human connectivity\, where local communities struggle to find their way through economic hardship to reach a more sustainable way of living. \n\n\n\nIn a world where ‘broken’ things and ‘unwanted’ people are expelled to the margins of society\, this book is a powerful call for a new way of living to rise up from the debris of overproduction and consumption. \n\n\n\n‘A story of what happens to the leftovers of capitalism. Within the places of possibility\, persistence and promise there is hope. Beautifully told\, carefully bundled\, expertly delivered. Tansy Hoskins’ Charity Shop World is a page turner.’— Danny Dorling\, author of The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future \n\n\n\n‘What might fashion design look like as a public resource based on community and cooperation?  Charity Shop World answers that question by reconnecting us to the humanity underpinning every aspect of fashion\, everything that Big Fashion\, as Tansy calls it- chooses to ignore and exploit. Tansy’s sensitive and warm account of working in a charity shop offers a microcosm of what’s best and what’s worst in today’s fashion system and reveals how another fashion world is possible.  Fashion designers\, students and educators need to centre the end of life of garments from the very start of the design process and critically address waste colonialism in fashion – Charity Shop World should be on all fashion reading lists. Tansy asks us to reflect on\, ‘What do we truly need?’; it’s time for Big Fashion to answer that same question for the future of our people\, species and planet.’—Tanveer Ahmed\, Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Race\, Central Saint Martins\, University of the Arts London \n\n\n\nPlease note: We have had some intermittent errors with this event page\, so if you are unable to buy tickets please email us at shop@housmans.com or give us a call (020 7837 4473) to reserve tickets. It would be very helpful if you could also please describe the error you are encountering and what platform and device you were using at the time! Thank you. \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/charity-shop-world-with-tansy-e-hoskins/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/images.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261009T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261009T210000 DTSTAMP:20260921T132053Z CREATED:20260921T132049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T132053Z UID:82862-1791572400-1791579600@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY SERIES: NELL PERRY DESCRIPTION:Join us for another evening of cutting edge\, brilliant poetry. This time we will be launching Nell Perry’s incredible new work of hybridised poetics His Splendid Tables\, published by Runamok! \n\n\n\nHis Splendid Tables is a collection of hybrid writing combining wayward translation and poetic essay to explore\, variously\, what is lost and what is gained in the elegiac process\, and unremembered myths and histories of feminized people.‘Borstal Unthrum Loom’ interweaves a translation of Moschus’ ‘Lament for Bion’ into an extinct Kentish dialect\, with found material from the Assize trial records of Kentish witches and later writings thereon\, to consider the social construction of the witch\, and the treatment of women labelled\, tried and executed as such\, and to examine the poetics and dynamics of the pastoral.‘fey’ explores and resists representations of feminized bodies in various iterations\, from Arthurian texts\, of the mythical figure of Morgan le Fay\, to explore how the multiple meanings of the term ‘fey’ link femininity with illness\, disorder\, whimsy\, the supernatural and death.“Perry’s mythscape is a dappled and torn document\, both rich and bereft.” Megan Zword \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but please RSVP below. Please also feel free to 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-series-nell-perry/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Poetry-Series-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261010T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261010T210000 DTSTAMP:20260914T155653Z CREATED:20260914T154932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T155653Z UID:82493-1791660600-1791666000@housmans.com SUMMARY:ZINE LAUNCH: TRANNY CENTRAL DESCRIPTION:JOIN US FOR FOR THE LAUNCH OF THIS INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF THE GAY LIBERATION FRONT’S TRANSSEXUAL\, TRANSVESTITE AND DRAG QUEEN GROUP\, FROM TGIRLSONFILM\n\n\n\nCome for the launch of the third bumper edition of “Tranny Central”\, with new archival goodies and newly commissioned articles. \n\n\n\nIn Tranny Central\, TGirlsonFilm summons the spirits of our radical trans-sisters of the Gay Liberation Front. Take a trip back to the suffocating howl of seventies London and bask in the hash hazed memories of Rachel Pollack’s flat. The US had the Compton Cafeteria and Stonewall Riots: how did London’s premiere transvestite and transsexuals react to the bubbling queer rebellion? Often dismissed and erased\, it’s time to know the history. Get in your glad rags\, grab your slap\, and head straight to Tranny Central girl! \n\n\n\nWords\, Research & Organisation by Jaye HudsonVisual Design by Ror BrownIllustrations by Bug Bites \n\n\n\nWe are delighted and honoured to have readings from: \n\n\n\nRoz Kaveney \n\n\n\nMorgan M Page \n\n\n\n& Jaye Hudson \n\n\n\nCOPIES OF THE ZINE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE ON THE NIGHT. DRINKS WILL BE PROVIDED BUT PLEASE FEEL FREE TO BYOB. \n\n\n\nEVENT STARTS AT 19:30\, DOORS AT 19:00. \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\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/zine-launch-tranny-central/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/LAUNCH-Instagram.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261013T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261013T203000 DTSTAMP:20261013T174650Z CREATED:20260806T161617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261013T174650Z UID:81369-1791918000-1791923400@housmans.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: THE AGE OF HOBSBAWM with Emile Chabal and Kate Bugos DESCRIPTION:Join Emile Chabal and Kate Bugos to discuss Chabal’s new intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm\, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian.\n\n\n\nEric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth century. He published hundreds of articles on modern history and culture\, and his books became canonical works and bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic. His crystal-clear writing\, vast erudition\, and ability to make his Marxist analysis digestible to a wide audience brought him worldwide renown. \n\n\n\nYet Hobsbawm was no academic hermit. Through his globetrotting journalism\, he was embedded in an extraordinary web of politicians\, activists\, and fellow intellectuals across Europe\, South Asia\, and the Americas\, including Manmohan Singh\, Che Guevara\, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva\, Fernand Braudel\, E. P. Thompson\, Arno Mayer\, and Salvador Allende. Emile Chabal traces the origins of Hobsbawm’s ideas and most famous writings by exploring his scholarly foundations\, delving deep into the archives to uncover hidden links and unexpected conversations that shaped his pathbreaking work. \n\n\n\nGoing well beyond the Ages series of modern history books for which Hobsbawm is best known\, Chabal offers the first substantial interpretation of Hobsbawm’s entire body of writing and gives us unique insights into the generations of Marxist writers with whom Hobsbawm was in conversation—authors whose work continues to shape political debates globally. \n\n\n\nOur speakers:\n\n\n\nEmile Chabal is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored and edited several books\, including A Divided Republic: Nation\, State\, and Citizenship in Contemporary France and States of Ignorance: Governing Irregular Migrants in Western Europe. His writing has appeared in such publications as Foreign Policy\, The Hindu\, the Times Literary Supplement\, Jacobin\, and Libération. \n\n\n\nKate Bugos is a feminist labour historian and writer. Her research focuses on women and work in the early 20th century. Her work has appeared in Tribune\, The Bookseller\, New International\, and Review31. \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT \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\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-age-of-hobsbawm-by-emile-chabal/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/preeti-insta1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261014T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261014T203000 DTSTAMP:20261014T134453Z CREATED:20260826T172358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T134453Z UID:82000-1792004400-1792009800@housmans.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: TAJ ALI IN CONVERSATION WITH KOJO KORAM DESCRIPTION:sold out\n\n\n\nTaj Ali and Kojo Koram are two of the most truly radical thinkers working in Britain today. They both have great experience as front line organisers but also\, on the theoretical level\, advance a rigorous and materialist anti-racism\, rooted in a Marxist understanding of power and exploitation; that works towards a praxis based on class solidarity. So we are absolutely delighted to welcome them to Housmans\, to engage in a conversation around their recent books: Taj’s Come what may\, we’re here to stay: The story of South Asian resistance in Britain (Manchester University Press) and Kojo’s The Next Fix:The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs (Verso). \n\n\n\nCome what may\, we’re here to stay: The story of South Asian resistance in Britain tells the inspirational story of how the South-Asian community in Britain organised against racism in the past and how it continues to fight in the present. British South Asians have a long tradition of radical political activism. The 1970s and 1980s saw the community grappling with prejudice in the workplace and violence in the streets. But this history is deeper than you might think\, from students agitating for independence at the heart of the British Empire to seafarers organising global strikes on the eve of the Second World War. \n\n\n\nIn Come what may Taj reveals how successive generations fought for rights\, dignity and a sense of belonging while actively shaping the country they now call home. He shows that British South Asian political life has often been defined less by religious difference than by shared commitments to anti-imperialism and anti-racism. In pursuit of these goals\, alliances have been forged with other movements\, from Irish republicanism to Black Power. As racism rears its ugly head again\, Come what may\, we’re here to stay asks: are we doomed to repeat the past or will we learn from our mistakes and build a better world together? \n\n\n\nFrom America’s plantation-turned-prison known as Angola in Louisiana to the psychedelic boom of Silicon Valley\, Kojo Koram‘s The Next Fix tracks a seismic shift in global drug policy. Kojo —legal scholar and acclaimed author of Uncommon Wealth—travels across five continents to examine how criminalized substances are being rebranded as commodities in a new billion-dollar industry. Legal cannabis dispen­saries now trade in what once led to life sentences. Psychedelics have become fertile ground for biotech. But for all these developments\, prisons still swell with underprivileged users and addicts\, and enforcement falls hardest along lines of race and class. \n\n\n\nThis is not a polemic for or against legalization. It is a powerful\, clear-eyed reckoning with how we got here—and what kind of future is taking shape in a world addicted to economic “fixes” every bit as much as it is troubled by drugs. Combining report­age\, political analysis and vivid personal testimony\, The Next Fix tells the untold story of drugs\, capital­ism and inequality in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! If you would like to added to a waiting list email shop@housmans.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 + 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/taj-ali-in-conversation-with-kojo/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/preeti-insta2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261021T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261021T203000 DTSTAMP:20260927T142548Z CREATED:20260927T142546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260927T142548Z UID:82983-1792609200-1792614600@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'Listening with Love' by Vishwam Gurudas DESCRIPTION:You are warmly invited to this peaceful evening of heart meditation and discussion where we explore together what it means to really Listen with Love\, with radical yoga instructor and thinker Vishwam Gurudas\n\n\n\nMany of us are deeply concerned about what’s happening in the world\, in our communities\, and in the lives of the people closest to us. We might wonder\, why do so many systems seem to be stuck in ways that are harming people and planet? Our schools and healthcare systems\, ecosystems and economies\, political systems and more are in crisis while most of us feel helpless to help. We seem locked in. But what if we could loosen the knots that bind us\, and in doing so help those around us to also loosen their own knots? What might seem like impossibly huge global systems can only keep going the way they are if we remain tight\, closed and disconnected. As we open our hearts and minds\, rediscover our voices and our capacity to listen with deep compassion\, things shift. Systems change. Including our own. Are you ready for the adventure? This is the Revolution of Love. \n\n\n\nThis special evening is a unique opportunity to connect with others who care about our world\, who want to help nurture vibrant community\, and are willing to Listen with Love. Sharing heart meditation is one simple way to help find the inner quiet and the deep\, abiding love for life that can support us all. All welcome! \n\n\n\nOUR AUTHOR \n\n\n\nVishwam Gurudas is an experienced Heart Minister\, Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer with the Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation. He is also a scholar of intimacy\, love and revolutionary transformation with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. For the past six years he has been hosting meditative writing circles\, developing his capacity as a listener and as a writer. You can find various poems\, essays and stories of his online and in print including in Earth Pathways Diary\, Permaculture Magazine\, Bella Caledonia and Southlight Magazine. Listening with Love is his first sole-authored book and the first published by Flowing with Life Press. \n\n\n\nOriginally from rural Iowa\, he has lived in various parts of Scotland and England over the the past thirty years. He is now delighted to dwell in the spacious peace of the Shetland Islands where he works with children with complex needs\, gardens\, writes and more. \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\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-listening-with-love-by-vishwam-gurudas/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/1000123861.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261105T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261105T203000 DTSTAMP:20261005T143119Z CREATED:20261003T161645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261005T143119Z UID:83116-1793905200-1793910600@housmans.com SUMMARY:PANEL: How Can Socialism Work in the 'Real' World? DESCRIPTION:Housmans\, with Tribune and Verso\, are happy to present a pandel discussion feeaturing Oliver Eagleton\, Amelia Horgan and Ben Burgis. \n\n\n\nHousmans and Verso are happy to present a panel discussion to help celebrate the publication The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World by Ben Burgis\, Bhaskar Sunkara and Mike Beggs. The panel takes up the books the books central premise: exactly how can socialism work in the real world? What constitutes ‘real’ here? What does it mean for ‘socialism’ to ‘work’ exactly\, and whom does it work for? We can be sure all these questions and more will be answered. \n\n\n\nOn our panel we have: \n\n\n\nBen Burgis\, one of the books authors and a Jacobin columnist. He is also an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University\, and the host of the YouTube show and podcast Give Them An Argument. He’s the author of several books\, most recently Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right\, How He Went Wrong\, and Why He Still Matters. \n\n\n\nOliver Eagleton\, the editor of Tribune magazine and author of The Starmer Project (2022) and the forthcoming The Future Regained (2027). \n\n\n\nAmelia Horgan\, the author of Lost in Work (2021) and Principal Editor at the Common Wealth think tank. Her work has appeared in Tribune\, Jacobin\, The Guardian and other places. \n\n\n\nOn The Blue Print: \n\n\n\nNeither capitalism nor central planning\, this is the future for socialism. \n\n\n\nCapitalism isn’t working. But is there a plausible alternative? The Blueprint lays one out: a system where workers control every lever of production\, and competitive markets and state planning coexist side by side. Drawing on the history of socialist experiments and the economic debate over planning and markets\, The Blueprint confronts the hardest questions about what went wrong in the past—and why it can go right in the future. The result is a socialism worthy of the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\n‘It is rare indeed to find a book that so keenly matches the elegance of its arguments with the passion of its politics. Here we have an alternative economic blueprint for our time\, a shining antidote to the crude bestiality of a fading and failing Trumpian regime. The aim is to build a socialism of and for the people\, a socialism that meets all our reasonable wants needs and desires with the minimum of effort. We can\, the authors claim\, for the first time in our history\, “combine egalitarianism in distribution and democracy in production with the abundance of high-tech modernity.” This is a book to “pry open our imaginations and put the biggest questions of politics back on the table.” Let the counterattack to all that is obnoxious in our present circumstances begin.’ \n\n\n\nDavid Harvey\, author of The Story of Capital \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\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/panel-how-can-socialism-work-in-the-real-world/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/BOOK-TALK-BURGIS-EAGLETON-soner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261107T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261107T203000 DTSTAMP:20260825T122230Z CREATED:20260825T115540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T122230Z UID:81910-1794078000-1794083400@housmans.com SUMMARY:PANEL TALK: PUBLISHING AS COLLECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE with Minor Compositions DESCRIPTION:What if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure?\n\n\n\nPlease join us for the launch of Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. This title is less a ‘book’ than it is a radical rethinking of the book-form itself; formulated as a collectively authored\, polyphonic work; an intervention into the realms of academic and open-access publishing. The project is grounded in experimentation and the bridging of theory and practice. It works to challenge proprietary software and big-tech dependency\, orientating itself towards a future mode of publishing that must address the direct crises of precarity and education. \n\n\n\nPublishing as Collective Infrastructure challenges the idea of the book as a fixed object and reimagines publishing as a collective\, political\, and infrastructural practice. Emerging from the ServPub project\, this book brings together artists\, academics\, technologists\, feminist server collectives\, and experimental publishers to expose how contemporary publishing is shaped by extractive platforms\, proprietary software\, unpaid labour\, and opaque infrastructures. Against this backdrop\, the authors develop and document alternative models grounded in free and open-source tools\, collective authorship\, feminist care practices\, and self-hosted\, small-scale infrastructures. \n\n\n\nBlending theory\, documentation\, and reflection\, the book explores publishing as a full-stack practice:  spanning writing\, design\, software\, servers\, logistics\, and governance. It addresses topics including ambulant servers\, wiki-to-print workflows\, versioning and forking books\, radical referencing\, and autonomous publishing\, while situating these practices within broader debates on infrastructure\, open access\, and knowledge politics. Rather than offering a blueprint\, Publishing as Collective Infrastructure functions as a living experiment and pedagogical resource. It invites readers to think with – and work through – the infrastructures that make publishing possible\, and to imagine how knowledge might be produced and shared otherwise. \n\n\n\nBio: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure does not have a single\, unified author. Instead\, it is a polyphonic work shaped by the shared labor\, ideas\, and practices of multiple collectives and projects working across experimental publishing\, feminist infrastructure\, open-source design\, and autonomous knowledge production. The book emerges from collaborations involving In-grid\, Minor Compositions\, noNames\, Shape\, and Systerserver\, with contributions from Constant\, Creative Crowds\, Hackers & Designers\, OBF Experimental Publishing Group\, TITiPI\, & Varia. Together\, these groups contribute situated perspectives\, technical practices\, and collective forms of authorship that reflect the book’s commitment to publishing as a social\, infrastructural\, and political process. \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\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/panel-talk-publishing-as-collective-infrastructure-with-minor-compositions/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ServPub-cvr.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261109T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261109T203000 DTSTAMP:20261014T150603Z CREATED:20261014T141129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T150603Z UID:83154-1794250800-1794256200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Confessions of a London River Hunter by John Rogers DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with celebrated psychogeographer\, writer and filmmaker John Rogers to help celebrate his dazzling new book CONFESSIONS OF A LONDON RIVER HUNTER\, published by our great friends over at Three Imposters.\n\n\n\nLondon is a city of rivers: there are said to be over 350 rivers and streams in Greater London. Most have slipped from the consciousness of the city yet they trickle on through parks and open spaces\, behind houses and under roads\, winding their stories through the fabric of London and whispering their legends. From the western marshes of the Yeading Brook to the lost river of Leytonstone\, the channels of the moon goddess\, a haunted stream\, long buried City tributaries and a brook rescued from the thickets\, John Rogers walked some of London’s most storied watercourses that rarely get acknowledged\, and attempts to find a way to hear their tales.  \n\n\n\nJohn Rogers has spent more than two decades walking and documenting the overlooked landscapes of London both in text and video. He is the author of This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City; Welcome to New London: Journeys and Encounters in the Post-Olympic City; and The Black Path. His films include London Overground\, made with Iain Sinclair\, The London Perambulator\, and Make Your Own Damn Art: The World of Bob and Roberta Smith. John was Psychogeographer-in-Residence for Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture 2019 and frequently speaks in public on the subject of London and walking. He lives in East London and continues to explore the city and its hinterland on foot. \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\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-confessions-of-a-london-river-hunter-by-john-rogers/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/BOOK-TALK-The-Journal-of-a-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner-e1791987242131.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T203000 DTSTAMP:20261006T150640Z CREATED:20261006T150636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T150640Z UID:83224-1794423600-1794429000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Revolution Under Construction: The SAAL Housing Process\, 1974–76 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of this illuminating study of one of the most remarkable housing initiatives in European history. With the author\, Sara Almodovar Pereira\, in conversation with architect and theorist Dr Dubravka Sekulić.\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n\nThe fall of the dictatorship in 1974 saw the start of Portugal’s revolutionary period and with it one of the most remarkable housing initiatives in European history. As an immediate response to the vast portion of the population living in slums and shanties\, the SAAL (Mobile Local Support Service) was established to equip impoverished people to build the new homes they needed. Initiated by architect Nuno Portas\, the SAAL connected citizens with planners\, architects\, engineers\, and builders to collaborate on the design and construction of new developments\, to be built on requisitioned sites as close as possible to the inhabitants’ former homes. The resulting estates were intimately informed by their inhabitants’ needs and hopes. Through their uniquely participatory process they developed a celebrated new architectural language. \n\n\n\nIn this book\, Sara Almodovar Pereira collects the experiences and reflections of those who participated in the SAAL\, reconstructing this extraordinary chapter in architectural and social history through the voices of those who were there\, at the protests and meetings\, on the building sites and barracks. The experiences recounted are revelatory\, demonstrating truly participatory architecture and offering new understandings of housing as right and provision\, far from prevailing paradigms and their perpetuated logic of ‘crisis’. This immersive oral history traces the unfolding of a historical moment at ground level and reminds us of ways of working and building that could transform the future. \n\n\n\nSara and Dubravka will talk for around 45 minutes followed by a Q&A. \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\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-revolution-under-construction-the-saal-housing-process-1974-76/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/BOOK-TALK-The-Journal-of-a-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner1-edited.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261114T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261114T210000 DTSTAMP:20261012T162216Z CREATED:20261012T161211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261012T162216Z UID:83353-1794682800-1794690000@housmans.com SUMMARY:HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES x SPAM: Sam Rodilosso DESCRIPTION:SPAM Press presents: Fuse Box: Triple Sonnet Crown by Sam Rodilosso\n\n\n\nw/ readings from Luke Roberts & K Lewis Hood \n\n\n\nJoin us for a collaborative event with SPAM Press\, in celebration of Sam Rodilosso’s debut poetry book\, Fuse Box: Triple Sonnet Crown. There will be readings from K Lewis Hood\, Luke Roberts and Sam\, followed by a Q&A between Sam and Maria Sledmere.  \n\n\n\n‘“Fuse” may be one of my favorite crowns of all time-it as technically as close to perfection as any example of the form that I know. Sam Rodilosso proves himself a brilliant poet\, even now\, at the beginning of the journey.’ — David Keplinger  \n\n\n\n🌞 \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\n‘The sonnet is a fuse box’ in which ‘Lyricism | Wakes up in a cold sweat’. Welcome to Sam Rodilosso’s debut poetry book\, a 60pp fury which takes on ‘America’s Monster Project’ and the polycrisis of our current\, dilapidating epoch with intelligence and spirit. Fuse Box believes in the power of children to ‘make defence’ against ‘time’s scythe’ and mortality in general. Imagination is amplified by influence. As futurity collapses around us\, Rodilosso registers the damage of the present in every iamb of the sonnet’s ornate circuitry\, entwined in a triple crown of fuse / engrams / spectacle. This is a poetics of overload and what-the-fuckery\, a poetics of voltaic leap and conscientious noticing\, digital compression and confession. Fuse Box joins a global choir of people singing against extractivism\, exploitation\, hyper-militarism and neoliberal fascisms; it scintillates with the meltpoint of a crayola-drawn sun. Fuelled by his father’s saying\, I love you Sam\, I am time travelling through you\, the poet evinces an unwavering refusal of capitalist foreclosures and moves headlong towards a loving future.  \n\n\n\nOUR POETS AND OUR PRESS: \n\n\n\nBorn and raised on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis\, Maryland\, Sam Rodilosso studied International Relations and Creative Writing at American University in Washington D.C. before transferring to the University of Edinburgh to study English Literature. Since then\, he has received a certification to teach English from Cambridge University\, and has studied Chinese at Peking University. Sam is interested in the prospects of translation and global literary exchange. \n\n\n\nLuke Roberts is the author of Bad Omens (2026)\, Home Radio (2021)\, Glacial Decoys (2021) and other works of poetry and prose. Beginning to End will be published in 2027 by Nightboat Books. \n\n\n\nK Lewis Hood is a writer from the East Midlands\, currently living on the water in East London. Their poetry publications include Glitch Almanac\, an artist book with Martina O’Brien\, Bugbear (Veer2\, 2021)\, and infra·structure\, with Maria Sledmere (Broken Sleep Books\, 2020). With Pratyusha\, they co-edited the online ecopoetry journal amberflora. They teach English and Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. \n\n\n\nMaria Sledmere is managing editor at SPAM Press and a senior lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde. Her most recent publications are the ekphrastic pamphlet Scar Code (Weather Band\, 2026)\, and I don’t have things to tell you (Strange Region\, 2026)\, an epistolary collaboration with Mau Baiocco.  \n\n\n\nSPAM Press CIC is a Glasgow and London-based small poetry press\, publisher\, magazine and purveyor of literary reading series\, established in 2016. It is run by editors Kirsty Dunlop\, Maria Sledmere and Maya Uppal.  \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but please RSVP below. Please also feel free to 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/housmans-poetry-series-x-spam-sam-rodilosso/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Poetry-Series-SPAM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261116T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261116T210000 DTSTAMP:20261004T155701Z CREATED:20261004T155620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261004T155701Z UID:83142-1794855600-1794862800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: ALSTON MOOR by Anne Charnock DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the book launch of Alston Moor\, published by Goldsmiths Press. This a polyphonic novel creating a portrait over time of one of England’s most remote landscapes\, a landscape now suffering degradation and threatened by arson and wildfire.\n\n\n\nIn 1548\, Isabel and her father\, together with the priest in this poorest of parishes\, grapple with the chaos of the Protestant reformation. Enacted in far away centres of power\, the reforms turn daily life and religious traditions upside down. Statues\, images of the saints\, rosaries\, prayer books are burned. Massesfor the dead are denounced as the corrupt practice of a money-grubbing clergy. Isabel holds fast to the old ways. But at her summering ground she encounters the more-worldly cattle drovers who fall into rebellious talk. Surely there are no protestant sympathisers in her parish. \n\n\n\nToday\, in equally tumultuous and disruptive times\, a grieving Elizabeth and her scientist team attempt to right the ecological wrongs and profligacy of the industrial era – the pollution\, the age-old tradition of peat cutting for fuel\, the draining of peat bogs for cultivation and the spread of sitka spruce plantations. The peatlands offer a climate life-line and there is no time to lose. The novel interrogates how society confronts crisis\, whether through science\, faith or ritual\,and how landscape bears witness to human struggle across the centuries. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to be hosting the launch of the award winning science-fiction writer Anne Charnock’s new work of deeply stirring experimental fiction. Alston Moor is an elegiac\, beautiful novel that combines historical and speculative fiction with ecological thought and serves as a powerful ruminations on landscape and futurity. \n\n\n\nAnne will be conversation with fellow celebrated writer Sandra Newman\, author of Julia: a novel\, The Men and other incredible works. There will be readings\, discussion and some mingling afterwards. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nAnne Charnock is the author of four novels. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Dreams Before the Start of Time. Her debut\, A Calculated Life\, was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award. During her career in foreign journalism\, her reports appeared in New Scientist and The Guardian. \n\n\n\nSandra Newman was born in America but has lived in Germany\, Russia\, Malaysia\, and England. Her professions have ranged from academia to professional gambling. She studied Creative Writing at UEA\, and her first novel\, The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done\, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Her second novel\, Cake\, was published by Chatto in 2007. In 2009 she co-wrote How NOT to Write a Novel\, and in 2019\, The Heavens. Her third novel\, The country of Ice Cream Star 2014\, was nominated for the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her next novel\, The Men\, was published in 2022\, with Julia\, Sandra’s feminist retelling of George Orwell’s dystopian classic\, 1984\, following soon afterward. She currently lives in New York. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but please do RSVP using the link below. Drinks and snack will be provided but you may also bring your own if you wish. \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-alston-moor-by-anne-charnock/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/alston-moor-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261118T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261118T203000 DTSTAMP:20261008T153138Z CREATED:20261005T120156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261008T153138Z UID:83164-1795028400-1795033800@housmans.com SUMMARY:DISCUSSION & FILM SCREENING: BLACK BRITONS\, RACE\, AND POLICING DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the seminal documentary work\, BLACKS BRITANNICA\, and to also celebrate the publications of Bisi Akintoye’s incredible new history of the Black British experience and policing. Featuring Bisi Akintoye and chaired by Dr Remy-Paulin Twahirwa.\n\n\n\nBlacks Britannica (1978) is a landmark documentary examining the experiences of Black communities in Britain during the 1970s. Through interviews and contemporary footage\, the film explores racism\, policing\, immigration\, employment and resistance\, capturing a period of intense political struggle over race and belonging. Its account of Black British life provides a powerful historical backdrop to continuing debates about racialised policing\, citizenship and the relationship between Black communities and the state. \n\n\n\nBisi Akintoye’s new book\, Black Britons\, Race\, and Policing: The Long Shadow\, explores the historical and contemporary policing of Black communities in Britain\, revealing how much has — and hasn’t — changed. Drawing on 58 interviews with young people\, elders\, and community workers in a heavily policed North London neighbourhood\, it offers a powerful\, intergenerational account of racialised policing and its everyday consequences. Through an intersectional lens\, it examines how race\, gender\, class\, and place overlap to shape Black Britons’ encounters with police and their sense of belonging. Through the voices of those most affected\, the book traces how these experiences have produced enduring cultural narratives of mistrust\, resistance\, and exclusion. Exposing how policing continues to racialise and criminalise certain communities designated suspect status\, it connects these practices to the legacies of empire and the politics of othering. It concludes by considering what these histories mean for the present and future of police-community relations and offers practical recommendations for building trust\, accountability\, and justice. \n\n\n\nTo celebrate the launch of this vital new book we welcome Bisi will be in conversation with Dr Remy-Paulin Twahirwa; the two will draw out key themes from the documentary and Bisi’s vital book. Expect illuminating discussion and some drinks and snacks. We look forward to seeing you there. \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\nPlease note copies of the book will be for sale on the night. \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\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/panel-black-britons-race-and-policing/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/978-3-032-11662-8-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261121T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261121T203000 DTSTAMP:20261008T160530Z CREATED:20261005T130505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261008T160530Z UID:83176-1795287600-1795293000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: REBEL FOOTPRINTS with DAVID ROSENBERG DESCRIPTION:COME AND HELP US CELEBRATE THE THIRD EDITION OF DAVID ROSENBERG’S PASSIONATE ODE TO LONDON’S RADICAL GEOGRAPHIES! \n\n\n\nThe radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides\, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners\, David Rosenberg tells the story of protest and struggle in London from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. \n\n\n\nFrom the suffragettes to the socialists\, from the Chartists to the trade unionists\, the book invites us to step into the footprints of a diverse cast of dedicated fighters for social justice. \n\n\n\nSelf-directed walks pair with narratives that seamlessly blend history\, politics and geography\, and beautifully illustrated maps immerse the reader in the story of the city. Whether you are visiting it for the first time\, or born and raised in it\, Rosenberg invites you to see London as you never have before: the nation’s capital as its radical centre. \n\n\n\nNow in its 3rd edition\, this radical walking guide has moved proved to be one of our most popular titles. Book a ticket now to avoid disappointment! \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\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-rebel-footprints-with-david-rosenberg/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/9780745351810.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR