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SUMMARY:We Played With Fire Book Launch with Catherine Barter and Fen Coles
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 4th February 2021\, 7pm-8pm\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nJoin us for the launch of We Played With Fire by Housmans co-manager Catherine Barter. Catherine will be in conversation with Fen Coles\, co-director of radical children’s bookseller Letterbox Library. The event will take place over Zoom.\n\n \n\nWe Played With Fire (Andersen Press) is a YA novel inspired by the true story of the Fox sisters\, who rattled the bones of nineteenth century America and kick-started the Spiritualist movement with their apparent ability to communicate with the dead. Fen and Catherine will be discussing the radical history of Spiritualism and the rise of political fiction for young adults.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister + Order Signed Copy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration OnlySubmitting form\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nCatherine Barter grew up in Warwickshire\, and then lived in Norwich for ten years. After gaining a PhD in American literature\, she ditched academia for the lucrative world of independent bookselling. She now lives in London and is one of the co-managers at Housmans Bookshop. With Letterbox Library\, she also helps to co-ordinate the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award for radical children’s fiction. We Played With Fire is her second novel.\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nFen Coles is co-director of Letterbox Library\, a 32-year-old children’s booksellers and workers’ cooperative\, specialising in inclusive children’s books. Fen has worked at Letterbox Library since 2005. Prior to this she worked in the LGBT and women’s charitable sector\, and taught Lesbian Cultural Studies to adult returners (while completing her PhD in lesbian horror films.) Fen is also co-founder and coordinator of the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award.\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210209T190000
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SUMMARY:Protest: Stories of Resistance with Christopher Eccleston\, Martyn Bedford and David Waddington
DESCRIPTION:Housmans Bookshop and Comma Press are delighted to host two online events with renowned British actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake reading from protest-inspired stories published in Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest. \nThe two events will take place on two consecutive dates\, with Christopher reading on the 9th of February and Maxine on the 10th. Both readings will be followed by a conversation between authors and historians discussing the events depicted in the stories read by Christopher and Maxine. \nChristopher will be reading ‘Withen’ by Martyn Bedford\, a story about the Battle of Orgreave\, during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. The reading will be followed by a discussion with author Martyn Bedford and academic David Waddington who has published widely on Britain’s mining communities. \n\nPlease read: \nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com stating which book you prefer (Protest or Resist) and let us know whether you would like the book posted or if you would like to collect it from the shop. Please supply a UK address if the book is to be posted out.  \nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it.  \n\nMore info on Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist:  \nAt a time of great political disarray – government corruption and incompetence\, the COVID pandemic\, Brexit and new austerity measures looming – we look back to the past to remember the times the people have called it out\, stood up\, resisted! \n\nFor a nation that brought the world Chartism\, the Suffragettes\, the Tolpuddle Martyrs\, and so many other grassroots social movements\, Britain rarely celebrates its long\, great tradition of people power. Both Protest and Resist are collections of fictions and essays that explore and commemorate key moments of British protest and defiance over the last two millenia. \nWritten in close consultation with historians\, sociologists and eyewitnesses – who also contribute afterwords – these stories follow fictional characters caught up in real-life struggles\, offering a street level perspective on the noble art of resistance. Authors re-imagine campaigns to change unjust laws\, protests against unlawful acts\, uprisings successful and unsuccessful – from Boudica to Blair Peach\, from the Battle of Cable Street to the tragedy of Grenfell Tower\, from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003. \nIn the age of fake news and post-truth politics this book fights fiction with (well researched\, historically accurate) fiction. Britain might not be famous for its revolutionary spirit\, but its people know when to draw the line\, and say very clearly\, ‘¡No pasarán!’ \nSpeakers \nMartyn Bedford is the author of five novels for adults: Acts of Revision\, which won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award\, Exit\, Orange & Red\, The Houdini Girl\, Black Cat\, and The Island of Lost Souls. He is also the author of two novels for young adults: Flip (shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award\, and winner of the Sheffield Children’s Book Award\, the Calderdale Book of the Year Award\, the Bay Book Award and the Immanuel College Book Award) and Never Ending (2014). His first collection of short stories\, Letters Home\, is published by Comma Press. \nDavid Waddington is Professor of Communications and Co-Director of the Cultural\, Communication and Computing Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University\, where he started out as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in March 1983. Since being appointed\, he has continued to publish widely on the policing of public order\, industrial relations in the coalfields\, and the sociology of Britain’s mining communities. His latest book\, Pit-folk and Peers: The Remarkable History of the People of Fryston\, Volume 1 – Echoes of Fryston Hall (1809-1908)\, has just been published by Route (Pontefract). \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210210T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210210T203000
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SUMMARY:Protest: Stories of Resistance with Maxine Peake\, Maggie Gee and Sally Alexander [online event]
DESCRIPTION:Housmans Bookshop and Comma Press are delighted to host two online events with renowned British actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake reading from protest-inspired stories published in Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist. \nThe two events will take place on two consecutive dates\, with Christopher reading on the 9th of February and Maxine on the 10th. Both readings will be followed by a conversation between authors and historians discussing the events depicted in the stories read by Christopher and Maxine. \nMaxine will be reading the story ‘Night Cleaners’ Strike’ by Maggie Gee from the Protest anthology. \nPlease read: \nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com stating which book you prefer (Protest or Resist) and let us know whether you would like the book posted or if you would like to collect it from the shop. Please supply a UK address if the book is to be posted out.  \nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it.  \nMore info on Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist:  \nAt a time of great political disarray – government corruption and incompetence\, the COVID pandemic\, Brexit and new austerity measures looming – we look back to the past to remember the times the people have called it out\, stood up\, resisted! \nFor a nation that brought the world Chartism\, the Suffragettes\, the Tolpuddle Martyrs\, and so many other grassroots social movements\, Britain rarely celebrates its long\, great tradition of people power. Both Protest and Resist are collections of fictions and essays that explore and commemorate key moments of British protest and defiance over the last two millenia.  \nWritten in close consultation with historians\, sociologists and eyewitnesses – who also contribute afterwords – these stories follow fictional characters caught up in real-life struggles\, offering a street level perspective on the noble art of resistance. Authors re-imagine campaigns to change unjust laws\, protests against unlawful acts\, uprisings successful and unsuccessful – from Boudica to Blair Peach\, from the Battle of Cable Street to the tragedy of Grenfell Tower\, from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003. \nSpeakers \nSally Alexander is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths University of London. Her books include Becoming a Woman: and other essays in 19th and 20th century feminist history (1994)\, and most recently History and Psyche: Culture\, Psychoanalysis\, and the Past\, edited with Barbara Taylor (2012). She was an organiser of the first national UK Women’s Liberation Movement conference held at Ruskin College\, Oxford in 1970\, was a member of several groups in the London Women’s Liberation Workshop\, and among other protests participated in the 1970 Miss World Demonstration. \nMaggie Gee has published 15 books\, including The Ice People\, My Cleaner\, The White Family\, shortlisted for the International Impac and Orange (now Women’s) Prize\, The Blue (stories)\, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan and most recently Blood (2019) which was on the Sunday Times’s ‘Best Literary Novels 2019’ list as well as their ‘Best Summer Reading 2019’ list\,  a black comedy-thriller about angry pre-Brexit Britain. Hilary Mantel described Blood as ‘An astonishing book. Funny and fierce\, written with style and dash\, without fear.’ Maggie has been translated into 15 languages. She has been warning against climate change in her fiction since Where Are the Snows (1991). She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. The Red Children is forthcoming from Saqi in January 2022. \n  \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210217T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210217T203000
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SUMMARY:Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited\, Exhausted and Alone\, with Sarah Jaffe [online event]
DESCRIPTION:When you love your job so much that you’ll work for next to nothing\, then nothing is exactly what you’ll get. \nWe’re very pleased to welcome Sarah Jaffe to Housmans to discuss the ‘labour of love’ myth: the idea that certain work is not really work\, and should be done for the sake of passion rather than pay. Whether it’s working for free in exchange for ‘experience’\, enduring poor treatment in the name of being ‘part of the family’\, or clocking serious overtime for a good cause\, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy. \nWork Won’t Love You Back examines the lives and experiences of various workers—from the unpaid intern and the overworked teacher\, to the nonprofit employee\, the domestic worker and even the professional athlete—this compelling book reveals how we’ve all been tricked into a new tyranny of work and argues that understanding the labour of love trap will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. \nFor this event\, Sarah will be in conversation with Ray Malone and Kate O’Shea\, two of the workers she interviews in Work Won’t Love You Back. \nPlease join us to take part in this essential conversation on a type of labour which is also very prevalent within radical communities: simply register below for free access or\, if you wish to support Housmans\, you can purchase a solidarity ticket. \nSpeakers \nSarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center fellow and an independent journalist covering the politics of power\, from the workplace to the streets. The author of Necessary Trouble\, she has written for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Nation and many other outlets. She tweets as @sarahljaffe. \nRay Malone is a creative producer\, theatre director and photographer\, working under the banner of her own theatre and arts collective: Heads Bodies Legs. Her previous experience is varied\, alongside her work as a theatre maker\, she has also worked as a chambermaid\, an ice cream seller\, a barmaid in a strip club\, a governess for wealthy Russians\, a terrible singer and badass single mum. As an activist\, she’s made performances with a number of collectives\, including Act Up London\, Beautiful Trouble\, the NHS Anti-Swindle Team\, and the Fallout Club. In theatre\, she has directed and dramaturged a range of new-writing and site-specific performances\, devising shows with professional and non-professional actors. Ray is currently leading the community arts project: the Molly’s Masquerade at St Margaret’s House in Bethnal Green. \nKate O’Shea is an artist with a social practice which includes printmaking\, the production of social spaces\, collective cooking and publishing. From setting up a social space in the south west of Ireland in 2009 to co-producing SPARE ROOM Art Architecture Activism (www.spareroomproject.ie) with Eve Olney in Cork in 2019\, Kate’s collaborative practice is based on building spaces of solidarity and dialogue in order to explore alternatives to the social relations of capitalism. Kate is currently The Just City Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency Awardee with Common Ground\, Dublin 8. Kate’s project How Much is Enough? includes collaborators from all around the world exploring ideas and practices around spatial injustices in multiple cities. This includes an upcoming collaborative exhibition entitled ‘Half Way To Falling’. Along with Victoria Brunetta\, Kate is co-founder of Durty Books (2018 – present) which is a publishing house that has produced two books to date\, providing a critical space for voices who challenge and build alternatives to capitalist hegemony. Kate is developing The People’s Kitchen which is being funded by Arts Council Ireland Artist in Community Scheme\, managed by CREATE. She is consulting artist on We Only Want The Earth 2020 working with A4 Sounds\, Create & MASI. Kate is a member of The Living Commons\, Ireland. \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
URL:https://housmans.com/event/work-wont-love-you-back-how-devotion-to-our-jobs-keeps-us-exploited-exhausted-and-alone-with-sarah-jaffe-online-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210219T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210219T203000
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Degrowth with Vincent Liegey\, Anitra Nelson and Derek Wall [online event]
DESCRIPTION:Vincent Liegey\, Anitra Nelson and Derek Wall join us online at Housmans to provide an accessible introduction to the degrowth movement. \nThis is a free event. To attend simply RSVP below. Alternatively\, if you would like to support Housmans you can buy a solidarity ticket. \nA sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism\, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer\, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about\, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. \nAs politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives\, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming our economies\, our politics and our cultures to live within the Earth’s limits. \nVincent\, Anitra and Derek will cover the practice and strategies of the movement\, its strengths and weaknesses and will also look at horizontal democracy\, local economies and the reduction of work\, arguing that degrowth is a compelling and realistic project. \nTo buy Exploring Degrowth by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson (published by Pluto Press)\, click here \nSpeakers \nVincent Liegey is an engineer\, interdisciplinary researcher\, spokesperson for the French degrowth movement and co-author of Un Projet de Décroissance\,  Utopia\, 2013). He is also the coordinator of Cargonomia — a centre for research and experimentation on degrowth\, a social cooperative for sustainable logistical solutions and local food distribution using cargo-bikes in Budapest. \nAnitra Nelson is Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne\, Australia. She is the author of Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (Pluto\, 2018) and is co-editor of Food for Degrowth (Routledge\, 2020) with Ferne Edwards. \nDerek Wall is the author of numerous books including Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals (Pluto\, 2017)\, Economics After Capitalism (Pluto\, 2015)\, The Rise of the Green Left (Pluto\, 2010) and The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom (Routledge\, 2014). He teaches Political Economy at Goldsmiths College\, University of London and was International Co-ordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales. \n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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