Speaker: Clasford Stirling MBE. How is it that a notorious housing estate later had a waiting list? In 1985, after Cynthia Jarrett’s death nearby when police raided her home, a riot took place; PC Blakelock was killed. Things had to change. Clasford, a life-long resident, has made huge contributions to the changes, creating a Youth Association, football coaching (making professional players), helping to unite residents (the Residents Association had been all-white on a multi-ethnic estate.) Broadwater Farm, run by LB Haringey, saw vast improvements physically, socially & economically. Clasford will explain how he & others achieved this miracle, & what it’s like to grow up & live there in 2025.
7.30pm Buffet (please bring an item if you can: vegetarian or vegan only). No entry before 7.30pm please (unless specified). 8.00pm Talk and discussion till about 10pm.
You can email to confirm the talk will be as shown. Open to all; no booking, just turn up. Email: roskane@btinternet.com

The London CAAT group meets monthly to discuss arms trade issues. Currently they are organising around the #StopArmingSaudi campaign.
For more information about the group, to request to be added to their group email list, or to confirm details of the next meeting, please email londoncaat@riseup.net. Third Tuesday of the month at 6.30pm, currently via Zoom

How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery. Paul Lashmar will be joining us for an evening at Housmans to discuss his latest book, Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery. A brilliantly detailed and probing study of a how powerful British family came by their wealth through the worst kind of brutal, dehumanising violence.

With a forward by David Olusoga, this book, which spans 400 years and 18 generations, tells a story that has never been told. While all the British landed gentry profited from chattel slavery in the West Indies, the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Dorset pioneered it.
Advanced Booking Strongly Recommended.

​In this invigorating new collection, Briony Hughes uses her experiences tracking bats through the Surrey Hills as a means to expand ‘communication’ beyond the human body. The bat as a cultural figure is small, blind, nocturnal, and occasionally sinister, but in Hughes’ poems they become a medium through which to interrogate the most pressing issues of our time; what happens when we abandon concepts of human exceptionalism and see ourselves as animals existing with other animals within an ecosystem? In a book of innovative engagements with language and visuality, Hughes explores the enmeshment of humanity within the natural world, and finds a moving kinship with these exceptional, easily overlooked creatures.
Briony will be joined by guest readers Sarah Westcott, Robin Boothroyd, and Redell Olsen.

This is a free event, but we ask that you RSVP via the website.