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Housmans Bookshop is a left wing radical bookshop in London since 1945. We frequently host fascinating authors, speakers, and other guests to talk about their work. For your listening pleasure, these events are recorded and uploaded here so that you too can enjoy our speakers even if you're unable to make it to the bookshop!
Housmans Bookshop hosts Housmans Bookshop, a arts show with 23 episodes published.
‘PART WAKE-UP CALL, PART FINANCIAL THRILLER’ (SHAMI CHAKRABARTI) The Asset Class is an equal parts thrilling and enraging work of vital financial journalism, lifting the lid on the relentlessly destructive force of priva
Please note that this talk was delivered with the assistance of a translator. Join for a discussion of the journal of Kurdish revolutionary, Ali Poyraz. He spent twenty-one years and four months in Turkish prisons. He wa
Learn about Housmans’ namesake and his efforts to fight for women’s suffrage. This free talk is in collaboration UCL, who hold the Laurence Housman archive. Personal items of Housman’s taken from the archive will be on d
We are absolutely delighted to welcome Lambros Fatsis to Housmans to discuss the criminalizing of black culture, music and youth. We are thrilled also to welcome back the brilliant Adèle Oliver, author of ‘Deeping it: Co
Using the stealth capacities of hermeneutic distrust as his weapon of choice, de Sutter’s writing breaks into unrecovered areas of subtle teachings, shedding light on philosophemes gleaned from Aristotle to punk-led atti
‘Linda Pentz Gunter has done a great service in highlighting the nuclear chain reaction and exposing the huge human and environmental costs. We need this book for our environment and a peaceful world’– Jeremy CorbynWe ar
‘Hazel Sheffield’s book is a warming remedy to the creeping nihilism many feel about the places where they live,’ Jen CallejaWe are delighted to welcome Hazel Sheffield to the shop to discuss her inspiring new book about
Perry combines effortless exactitude with canny ambiguity to create a novel that is always as stimulating as it is enchanting. ‘May We Feed the King’ is a rare achievement, I absolutely loved it.Claire-Louise BennettWe a
An intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes.Switchboard was founded at Housmans, and operated out of our premises for many years. So we are honored to start
For our first event of the year we welcome Proffessor Katrina Navickas to the shop to discuss what is an increasingly urgent political issue in our current cultural climate. Her recent book, Contested Commons is a radica
Experimental trans neonoir fiction.‘Jaw Filler instantly joins the canon of outlier literature: jaw-dropper, more like.’– Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat GoldHousmans and Montez Press invites you to a conversati
‘Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence. One could read this novel as the story of two characters—the Netherlands and the sea—posing a question of each othe
Housmans and Hajar Press are delighted to celebrate the launch of this important, magnificent novel. Saima Begum’s The First Jasmines follows two sisters, Lucky and Jamila, after they are captured by the military while o
Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital Ecologies (Pluto Press) traces the spinning of new synthetic threads into the web of life. It is a critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of cap
ABOUT THE BOOKS:Danny Hayward‘s Training Exercises:‘Organized violence committed on ordinary speech’ is therapy for those who don’t believe in literature as value. Training Exercises is an unpacking of that dictum: seven
‘Christoph Schuringa’s A Social History of Analytic Philosophy achieves the impossible: while it follows a clear line of interpretation – analytic philosophy is not politically neutral, it is deeply rooted in capitalist
Simon Hall and Owen Hatherley will be joining us to discuss Simon’s fascinating new book, THREE REVOLUTIONS: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World.From the streets of Petrograd during the heady
We are very, very, very exited to be welcoming the dazzling provocateur, artist and all-round London legend STEWART HOME back to Housmans to talk about his latest book, Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremaci
Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Laura C. Forster and Joel White to the shop for a dicussion of their wonderful, exhilarting book on the radical potential of friendship! Friendship is full of revolutionary potentia
The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universi
Jonathon Porritt
writer, environmentalist, advocate for sustainable development
1 appearance on this show
Adam Zmith
podcast producer, writer, and author of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
1 appearance on this show
Stewart Home
1 appearance on this show
Joel White
President and CEO · Council for Affordable Health Coverage
1 appearance on this show
Kate Wilson
Certified genetic counselor · Oglethorpe University
1 appearance on this show
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