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 […]
AUTONOMY NOW! PRESENT: ‘Their Wars, Our Dead! Anarchist reflections on anti-militarism since the invasion of Ukraine’with Jason Brannigan and Declan McCormick ‘Their Wars, Our Dead!’ brings together six anarchist responses to war and militarism. The book makes the case that since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a war fever has swept the anarchist movement […]
A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons. Join us for some radical thinking, some real radical autonomist thinking, with one of our favourite vanguardist publishers, Minor Compositions. Come and celebrate the publication of another vital, alert and mind bending work of theory. A Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities […]
Policing the beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice 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: Colonialism, Culture and Criminalisation of UK Drill’, to interview Lambros about […]
We welcome Ida Susser to celebrate the publication of The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century. Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the United States and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the twenty-first century. It foregrounds […]
NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES: CHRISTINE DONOVAN & TOM VAGUE IN CONVERSATION Join us for a conversation between two of the most brilliant writers of psychogeography working the country at the moment as they talk about their recent published works. Christine Donovan’s novel Dériveville explores the long term influence of the Situationist International. Setin 1981 in Paris it […]
Dog Section Press presents an evening of poetry, words and music in celebration of their recent publication: Feminisms. Curated and hosted by Antonia May Cross, featuring book contributors Janey Starling (Yakkie band) & Abu Leila (London Renters Union) and music and poetry from Dream Date and Alice Brady. Feminisms is a collection of ten essays from a diverse milieu of writers […]
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 display. This public lecture will explore Housmans Bookshop namesake Laurence Housman (1865-1958) and his active role in the women’s […]
Nele Poolerton is the local guide at Craggy Hole Caves in Yorkshire giving tours on prehistoric finds. However lately she’s had to live at work and she’s struggling to understand the intentions of her limited boss, Stanley. Why is there a pillar in the cave called a witch? Where do the other caves lead? When […]
Join for a discussion of the journal of Kurdish revolutionary, Ali Poyraz. He spent twenty-one years and four months in Turkish prisons. He was born in 1962 in Bozüyük, an Alevi village in the Gürün district of Sivas. According to Yeni Özgür Politika, his political consciousness was shaped by his older brother, Hüseyin Poyraz (also […]
We are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world’s greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation by leading art writer Jennifer Higgie. Liliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring, often ostentatious and always poetic works are dotted […]
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES – PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON FOR A RESCHEDULED DATE. We are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world’s greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation by leading art writer […]
AN ORAL HISTORY OF PUNK ROCK, SPIRITUALITY AND LIBERATION We are super excited to welcome John Malkin over from California to talk about his incredible, and as far as we can tell, unique, book: Punk Spirit! We’ve had countless books about punk (not to mention zines) pass through Housmans over the year but none that […]
Join us to welcome author Stewart Home to talk about his book ‘Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness’ The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release, thanks to the power of its ‘mystic’ Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps […]
