Network for Peace

Church no place for arms trade. Will you help get them out? Church House Conference Centre is yet again hosting RUSI - a military think tank - and their two conferences, one on Land Warfare, then other on Chief of the Air Staff's Air Power Conference. Both are heavily funded by the arms industry, including, so far, Lockheed Martin and MBDA Missiles. Join us!

Will you help get them out? Church House Conference Centre is yet again hosting RUSI - a military think tank - and their two conferences, one on Land Warfare, then other on Chief of the Air Staff's Air Power Conference. Both are heavily funded by the arms industry, including, so far, Lockheed Martin and MBDA Missiles. Join us!

DSEi, London's huge arms fair. Come to London to challenge the arms fair - look out for more details nearer the time!

As the week of the London arms fair begins, join with Christian communities across the UK in their own churches, in prayer and action.

With Will Horowitz. Changing London have been exploring the progressive potential of the post of mayor, and crowd sourcing practical ideas that could transform the capital for the better, offering up a view of how the city might look if we reclaimed it and fashioned it based on our needs and wants.

With Iain Sinclair. Iain Sinclair discusses his latest book, a tour of London’s Overground network, and the gentrification and social change it has brought.
RSVP Essential – please email nik@housmans.com.

With Jill Liddington and Elizabeth Oakley. An evening of discussion and drinks in celebration of the memory of pacifist, critic, playwright, novelist, social activist, public speaker, broadcaster and name-sake of Housmans Bookshop, Laurence Housman. Do come along and help us celebrate his 150th birthday! 7

With David Rosenberg.
David Rosenberg maps London’s protests and struggles, from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, as explored in his most recent book ‘Rebel Footprints’ (Verso, 2015).

With Bidisha. Bidisha joins us to discuss her book, the result of long-term outreach work with refugees and asylum seekers in London.

With Matthew Beaumont. Matthew Beaumont discusses his fascinating literary portrait of the writers who explored the city at night, and the people they met.

With Andrew Pearmain and Derek Boothman. As an extension of the Gramsci Conference taking place at Kings College on 18th/19th June, we welcome Andrew Pearmain to discuss his latest book ‘Gramsci in Love’ (Top Hat Books, 2015) and Derek Boothman, editor and translator of ‘A Great and Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters (1908-1926) of Antonio Gramsci’ (Lawrence & Wishart, 2014).

With Seungho Park.

Women and War in Their Own Words. A Performance by Paula Tait. UN Security Council Resolution 1325 acknowledges that "civilians, particularly women and children, account for the vast majority of those affected by armed conflict." This performance aims to show how women are affected by war by presenting their own poetry and stories, interspersed with songs and music.

Public event with invited speakers from Peace News, including Emily Johns, the artist who designed The World is My Country posters.

To mark the ongoing centenary of World War One (as well as this year's seventieth anniversary of VE day at the end of World War Two) there will be an exhibition of posters called “The World is My Coun

A visual celebration of the people and movements that opposed the First World War. With speakers Gabriel Carlyle and artist Emily Johns

A visual celebration of the people and movements that opposed the First World War. With speakers Gabriel Carlyle and artist Emily Johns

With Sharon Monteith and Katie Hamilton. To celebrate the publication of Harper Lee’s novel Go Set a Watchman, the prequel of To Kill a Mocking Bird, Sharon Monteith and Katie Hamilton will be speaking about then the impact and representation of the US South on Harper Lee’s writing.

With Peter Mortimer, Stanley Middleton and Simon Callow.
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With Ian McMillan. Five Leaves Bookshop is delighted to host the poet, journalist and broadcaster Ian McMillan, who will be talking about his latest book Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In Search of the Meaning of Yorkshire (Ebury press).