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PANEL: How Can Socialism Work in the ‘Real’ World?
Housmans, with Tribune and Verso, are happy to present a pandel discussion feeaturing Oliver Eagleton, Amelia Horgan and Ben Burgis. Housmans 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 […]
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LAUNCH: Four Essays on Embroidery by May Morris
Join Gauze Bonnet Press to celebrate the launch of their latest publication, Four Essays on Embroidery by Arts and Crafts movement icon May Morris. This collection brings together four of May Morris's essays on embroidery- three from a collection entitled Arts and Crafts Essays (1893) and one first published in the Century Guild Hobby Horse. […]
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PANEL TALK: PUBLISHING AS COLLECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE with Minor Compositions
FeaturedWhat if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure? Please 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 […]
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MAGAZINE LAUNCH: PINKO #5
We are delighted to FINALLY welcome our comrades from PINKO Magazine over to Britain for the London Launch of their spectacular Issue 5 Please join the Pinko editorial collective for the London launch of their newest magazine issue, “From Each to All.” Pinko is a print magazine of gay communism founded in 2019 and now […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Confessions of a London River Hunter by John Rogers
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. London is a city of rivers: there are said to be over 350 rivers and streams in Greater London. Most […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Revolution Under Construction: The SAAL Housing Process, 1974–76
FeaturedJoin 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. ABOUT THE BOOK: The fall of the dictatorship in 1974 saw the start of Portugal’s revolutionary period and with it […]
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HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES x SPAM: Sam Rodilosso
SPAM Press presents: Fuse Box: Triple Sonnet Crown by Sam Rodilosso w/ readings from Luke Roberts & K Lewis Hood Join 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 […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: ALSTON MOOR by Anne Charnock
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. In 1548, Isabel and her father, together with the priest in this poorest of […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resitance with Arachne Press
Come and celebrate the launch of the latest anthology published by Arachne Press: UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resistance. Arachne Press has long been a champion of LGBTQ+ writers, and our first anthology of LGBTQ+ poetry Joy//Us, was something of a hit! It was a strange moment, publishing joyful poems, that celebrated all that is best […]
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DISCUSSION & FILM SCREENING: BLACK BRITONS, RACE, AND POLICING
FeaturedJoin 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. Blacks Britannica (1978) is a landmark documentary examining the experiences of Black communities in Britain […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: REBEL FOOTPRINTS with DAVID ROSENBERG
COME AND HELP US CELEBRATE THE THIRD EDITION OF DAVID ROSENBERG'S PASSIONATE ODE TO LONDON'S RADICAL GEOGRAPHIES! The 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 […]
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50 FEMINISM IDEAS YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW: Maya Oppenheim in conversation with Sian Norris
FeaturedCome and join feminist critics Maya Oppenheim and Sian Norris in conversation as they go over the essential foundations of feminist thought Housmans is thrilled to welcome writer and journalist Maya Oppenheim to the shop alongside fellow author and journalist Sian Norris to celebrate the publication of Maya's second book, '50 Feminism Ideas You Really […]
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