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We are here, and we will fight! – Perspectives on contesting European borders from the Central Mediterranean

Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
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Join Captain Support for an evening discussion with international activists to strategise how we can resist increasingly violent state borders in the Central Mediterranean and beyond. While Libyan militias escalate their crimes at sea, shooting at rescue ships and people on the move, the network Refugees in Libya have organised an impressive mobilisation against the […]

SOLD OUT! CONTESTED COMMONS: A History of Protest and Public Space in England

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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please note this event is now sold out. To be added to a waiting list please email shop@housmans.com Proffessor Katrina Navickas In Conversation with Daniel Frost 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. […]

info-night FROM THE US TO THE UK: FUCK THE BORDERS AND FUCK ICE!

The People’s Letters, 392 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9RA
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From the US to the UK: fuck the borders and fuck ICE! Join us for an evening of updates from Minneapolis and beyond with a comrade on the ground. We will be talking about ways we resist ICE in the US and in the UK. Bring questions, love and rage! Food provided. Friday 23rd January […]

BOOK LAUNCH: THE LOG BOOKS: VOICES OF QUEER BRITAIN AND THE HELPLINE THAT LISTENED with Tash Walker &Adam Zmith

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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THE HISTORY OF SWITCHBOARD 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 LGBT+ History Month by launching a book that covers an intimate part of Switchboard’s […]

SOLD OUT! THE LOG BOOKS: VOICES OF QUEER BRITAIN AND THE HELPLINE THAT LISTENED with Tash Walker &Adam Zmith

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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please note this event is now sold out. To be added to a waiting list please email shop@housmans.com 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 […]

Maria Alyokhina and Eric J. Breitenbach of Pussy Riot: live reading, music & discussion

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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Maria Alyokhina and Eric J. Breitenbach of Pussy Riot present an evening of live reading, music, and discussion. Masha will read from her new book Political Girl, continuing the story begun in Riot Days, tracing years of activism, arrests, resistance, and survival inside Putin’s Russia. The reading will be accompanied by a live improvised score […]

Housmans Valentine’s Day Special: COURTING DISASTER with Zoë McGee

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Fan of a Romantic Period Drama? Can’t stand the stuff? Either way, we’ve got the event for you. Come and deconstruct Romance this Valentine’s Day with Housmans and Zoë McGee We’ll be discussing Zoë’s fabulous new work of Romantic Deconstruction: Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel. What do #MeToo and Jane […]

MAY WE FEED THE KING: Writing Radical Fiction Today with Rebecca Perry & Misha Honcharenko

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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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 Bennett We are delighted to welcome two of the most exciting writers working in Britain today, Rebecca Perry and Misha Honcharenko, to Housmans for […]

HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: Joseph Minden launches Answerlands

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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We are BUZZING to be keeping off our 2026 Poetry Series with the brilliant Joseph Minden, who’ll be launching is latest collection Answerlands, published late last year by Carcanet. Joining Joseph we have Kat Addis, Joseph Persad, Dolly Rae Star and Verity Spott. This is a free event, but please RSVP below. Also please feel […]

BOOK LAUNCH: Frontierlands by Hazel Sheffield

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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‘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 Britain’s abandoned and neglected places and the opportunities they present for communities, and how they can help us […]

SITUATIONISM REVISITED: Creative Anarchy Part 2

Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
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For our second session, we will be (re)assessing the historical legacy and ongoing practices of Situationist approaches to creativity, social intervention, and anti-art practices more broadly. This discussion will be kickstarted by a roundtable of artists, researchers and donors to the collection, and then open out into a collective interrogation of the anarchic possibilities of […]

BOOK LAUNCH: The Mixed + Multiracial Guide To Wellbeing with Namalee Bolle

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Join us for a celebratory evening of radical mixed + multiracial discussion! “What aaaaarrrrrrrrrreeeeeee you?!”If you just had that familiar sinking feeling, this book is for you. Do you point out how alienating and othering that question is? Stand your ground and explain that you don’t have to justify your existence with a pie chart […]

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

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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‘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, […]

BOOK LAUNCH: The Migrant Art of Coping by Sohail Jannesari

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