BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop 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: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:20261012T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261012T203000 DTSTAMP:20260826T170200Z CREATED:20260826T163245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T170200Z UID:81982-1791831600-1791837000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: The Ragged Edge of Freedom: Race\, Capitalism\, and Class Struggle in Slavery's Borderland DESCRIPTION:Matthew E. Stanley in Conversation with Dr Milly Williamson & Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper\n\n\n\n\n\nA stirring and thoroughly necessary reflection on the histories of slavery\, poverty and class solidarity in the American Midwest. \n\n\n\nThe Ragged Edge of Freedom explores the long shadow of slavery in the Lower Midwest. In the decades after the Civil War\, elites in southern Ohio\, Indiana\, and Illinois constantly raised the specter of “cheap” Black labor to divide workers\, discipline markets\, and gain political advantage. At the same time\, powerful outsiders depicted the borderland as dirty and degraded\, pathologizing the region’s working poor through a rising capitalist ideology that linked a human’s worth to their economic productivity. Desperate to maintain their precarious standing and avert the phantasma of “negro invasion\,” countless Lower Midwesterners envisioned a republic of “free white labor” predicated on the ruthless exclusion of Black “competition.” \n\n\n\nYet\, as Matthew Stanley demonstrates\, racial division is only one part of this story\, as class-based interracialism materialized in unlikely places and against impossible odds. In the heat of border-making and white supremacist violence\, ordinary people challenged the free white labor consensus—through bottom-up struggle over shared material goals. From settler dispossession through the age of mass incarceration and deindustrialization\, this absorbing book recounts dramatic and previously neglected clashes between workers and the formidable bastions of wealth and power. Stanley excavates the stories of abolitionists\, freed people\, agrarian populists\, militant coal miners\, and socialists\, Black and white\, who risked everything in defiance of the region’s restrictive boundaries and its racial capitalist grip. Against a backdrop of blood-stained civil wars and riveting industrial battles in a pivotal yet often overlooked American region\, The Ragged Edge of Freedom is a people’s history—one of inspiration and urgency and complex resistance from below. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted that Matthew is stopping by Housmans during his visit in the UK to talk about this essential new book. He will be joined in conversation by Adam Eliott-Cooper and Milly Williamson from Queen Mary and Goldsmiths colleges\, University of London. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nMatthew E. Stanley is associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas\, and the author or editor of four books\, including the award-winning\, The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America. \n\n\n\nAdam Elliott-Cooper received his PhD from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science\, University of Oxford\, in 2016. He has previously worked as a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at UCL\, as a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick and as a research associate in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. His first monograph\, Black Resistance to British Policing\, was published by Manchester University Press in May 2021. He is also co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (Pluto Press\, 2021). \n\n\n\nDr Milly Williamson is interested in the relationship between the media and citizenship and the mediated means by which individuals and social groups are either marginalised or validated. Her research thus spans key questions of our time – from the growth of racism to the huge rise of promotional content and the growth of celebrity culture in online and offline media. Her book include Celebrity: Capitalism and the Making of Fame (Polity) and The Lure of the Vampire: Gender\, fiction and fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy (Columbia). \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-talk-the-ragged-edge-of-freedom-race-capitalism-and-class-struggle-in-slaverys-borderland/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/9781685901547.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261013T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261013T203000 DTSTAMP:20260806T161619Z CREATED:20260806T161617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260806T161619Z UID:81369-1791918000-1791923400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: THE AGE OF HOBSBAWM by Emile Chabal DESCRIPTION:Join Emile Chabal as he discusses his 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\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-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:20260827T104333Z CREATED:20260826T172358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T104333Z UID:82000-1792004400-1792009800@housmans.com SUMMARY:TAJ ALI IN CONVERSATION WITH KOJO KORAM DESCRIPTION:Taj 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\nThis is a truly exciting opportunity to see two incredible thinkers in conversation. Please book ahead 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\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 END:VCALENDAR