Come to Elephant and Castle to learn about the 1926 General Strike in Southwark. A FREE radical history walk in collaboration with Past Tense around the Elephant & Castle. 100 years on from the 1926 General Strike, we will reflect on how trade unionists organised the strike on the ground in this important area of […]
‘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 private equity. We are thrilled to welcome the book’s author Hettie O’Brien to Housmans to be interviewed about the book by celebrated journalist […]
FREE ENTRY BUT PLEASE RSVP USING THE FROM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE This event celebrates a Bored Stiff book half a century after a fanzine of that name burst into life at the height of the punk “explosion.” Original creator Terry Macalister has brought together in contemporary time a group of musicians, photographers […]
Join us for an evening diving into the long histories of technological resistance, with MayDay rooms and Thomas Dekeyser. At a time when Big Tech grows increasingly enmeshed with authoritarian control, how do we resist? One path, the new book, TECHNO-NEGATIVE: A LONG HISTORY OF REFUSING THE MACHINE argues, is to look deeply into the […]
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/central-eastern-european-diasporic-feminisms-reading-group-tickets-1987774039662 Join us to create a CEED subject guide for materials from the central and eastern european diaspora in the Library’s collection. We will meet at 12pm and work until roughly 5pm, but you can drop in at any time. If you haven’t come to a reading group before and want to come, please join […]
A road movie, a magic realist fable and an incisive portrait of the seldom-seen Iraq of the 1990s, this is a poignant film focusing on a nine-year-old girl named Lamia who must gather scarce ingredients to bake a cake for Saddam Hussein’s birthday. Touching on collective trauma of growing up in Iraq under sanctions, economy […]
Join Us For A Discussion Of A Global Movement for the Rights of Nature As the world grapples with the escalating climate crisis, ecosystems are collapsing, and the planet’s future hangs in the balance. For centuries, our legal systems have treated nature as something to be owned and exploited, but a bold new movement is […]
‘At this, the man turned in their direction and smiled; he played not for the dream of success but because this new world necessitated beauty of all kinds. The new world was not just labour, but labour for the sake of life-making.’ — Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Join us for Hajar Reads: Play. […]
When Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China’s fast-growing southern cities.Adrift in the South is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first century, […]
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.
JACK PARLETT IN CONVERSATION WITH PETER SCALPELLOFlamboyance is Jack Parlett’s follow up to his acclaimed Fire Island (A Housmans bestseller of 2022). This new book has all the qualities one has come to expect of Jack’s work; big hearted and erudite in equal measure.Flamboyance ignites every aspect of our lives, from art and entertainment to […]
The Black Feminist Reading Group is back for another wokshop! On Saturday 6th June 12:00-3:30pm at the Feminist Library. We’ll be taking time to reflect and imagine together. The workshop will be centred on a few fun creative reflection activities. We’ll be using collage, reflective writing, and drawing to explore Black Feminism. What does the […]
Kate Bayliss in conversation with Adrienne Buller PRIVATISING HUMANITY is a powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic human needs into assets.We have entered a new era of turbo-charged financial extraction. Having amassed huge reserves, global finance capital is seeking out fresh areas for profitable investments. Virtually all aspects of our lives are now […]
Thursday, June 18th, 7pm onwards, MayDay Rooms MayDay Rooms is pleased to launch its new Anarcho-Punk archive — a growing collection tracing how anarcho-punk helped reignite anarchism in Britain during the 1980s and 1990s. At a moment when anarchism appeared politically marginal and disconnected from everyday life, anarcho-punk transformed it into a lived, participatory […]
