TALK: NO TO NUCLEAR! Linda Pentz Gunter in conversation with Jonathon Porritt

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

‘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 are delighted to welcome Linda Pentz Gunter to Housmans to discuss her new book No To Nuclear. Brilliantly written, clear, […]

56a Infoshop Open

56a InfoShop, 56 Crampton Street,, SE17 3AE
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Open: Thurs 2-8 / Fri 3-7 / Sat 2-6 56a Infoshop is a long-term volunteer-run, 100% unfunded, DIY social centre in Walworth, South London since 1991. We share a collectively-run building with the brilliant Fareshares Food Co-op and the awesome 56a Bikespace. we sell radical books, zines, magazines, pamphlets and other printed matter on a wide variety of […]

BOOK LAUNCH: The Migrant Art of Coping by Sohail Jannesari

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Join us for an evening with Dr Sohail Jannesari as we discuss his groundbreaking new work of non-fiction, The Migrant Art of Coping.Refugees don’t just survive displacement, they build strength, community, and new ways of coping that challenge everything we know about mental health.The Migrant Art of Coping shares stories of refugees navigating harsh borders, restrictive […]

56a Infoshop Open

56a InfoShop, 56 Crampton Street,, SE17 3AE
Event Category:

Open: Thurs 2-8 / Fri 3-7 / Sat 2-6 56a Infoshop is a long-term volunteer-run, 100% unfunded, DIY social centre in Walworth, South London since 1991. We share a collectively-run building with the brilliant Fareshares Food Co-op and the awesome 56a Bikespace. we sell radical books, zines, magazines, pamphlets and other printed matter on a wide variety of […]

BOOK TALK: Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century: Laurent de Sutter in conversation with Alfie Bown

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

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 attitude, biojewelry, and the historical buildup of authority billed to the triumph of reason in its many intrusive morphs.— Avital Ronell, New York UniversityWe […]

BOOK LAUNCH: The Othered Woman How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women by Shahed Ezaydi

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

‘An urgent, vital contribution to the feminist conversation – one that tears through the comfortable myth of universal sisterhood’ – Alya Mooro, author of The Greater FreedomGrowing up, journalist Shahed Ezaydi was often asked how she could call herself a feminist and still practise her faith. It’s a question that reveals a deeper issue that […]

BOOK LAUNCH: RADICAL JUSTICE: Building the World We Need with Nani Jansen Reventlow

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Housmans are delighted to be hosting an event around this essential new book — a stalwart guide to strengthen the movement for freedom and equality for all.Our society is breaking down. Fascists are winning elections, economic inequality is rampant, and the climate crisis is at its tipping point. It feels like the amount of work […]

BOOK LAUNCH: Suicide by Roger Hallam

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Housmans welcome Roger Hallam to discuss his essential new book: Suicide: The Political and Legal Implications of Creating Endless Mass Death. In the age of climate collapse, telling the truth has become a criminal act. From a cell in Wayland Prison, Roger Hallam—farmer, researcher, and co-founder of Just Stop Oil—delivers a searing indictment of a […]

POETRY: Jazmine Linklater, Frank Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar and more

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Please join us for our second poetry night of the year. This time we celebrate Jazmine Linklater’s immense and devastating new long poem ‘Snagged on red thread’ (published by Monitor). Reading alongside Jazmine we have Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Al Anderson, Harriet Rose and JD Howse. This is a free event, but please RSBP […]

First Thursday Freedom board game night!

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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Come and join us for a night of frivolity, fun and friendly competition. Every 1st Friday of the month. Next one is the 5th February, 7pm Decentre.

First Friday Freedom Fun board game night!

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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Come and join us for a night of frivolity, fun and friendly competition. Every 1st Friday of the month. Next one is the 1st November,  7pm Decentre.

First Thursday Freedom board game night!

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
Event Category:

Come and join us for a night of frivolity, fun and friendly competition. Every 1st Friday of the month. Next one is the 5th February, 7pm Decentre.

First Thursday Freedom board game night!

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
Event Category:

Come and join us for a night of frivolity, fun and friendly competition. Every 1st Friday of the month. Next one is the 5th February, 7pm Decentre.