Join Islington Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other campaigners to march against Barclays.
Barclays funds death
PPU AGM
This is a hybrid meeting, online and at the PPU office. Details: https://www.ppu.org.uk/AGM2025
From Yemen to Gaza
This event will feature two short films and a discussion on the catastrophic wars in Yemen and Gaza - how they are linked, how Britain is complicit, and most importantly, what we can do about it.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration
Join the Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration event in Southampton.
With guest speaker Frank Boulton, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
No More Hiroshimas
On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, join Merton Peace Coalition/CND to remember the victims who needlessly lost their lives.
‘End the Genocide’
Join CND and others to tell the government to end the genocide; stop arming Israel; and stop starving Gaza!
March through central London, assembly point and route TBC.
Menwith Hill demonstration – morning protest at Yorkshire base
Join activists at the Main Gate at US Menwith Hill, to take opposition to the workers as they go into the base.
Bring a placard saying why you are there.
‘The Mistake’
Michael Mears’s compelling and profoundly moving new play, performed by Michael and young Japanese actor Riko Nakazono, directed by Rosamunde Hutt, explores personal stories surrounding that catastrop
‘The Mistake’
Michael Mears’s compelling and profoundly moving new play, performed by Michael and young Japanese actor Riko Nakazono, directed by Rosamunde Hutt, explores personal stories surrounding that catastrop
In Common
A new exhibition exploring the histories and legacies of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.
Atomic Cabaret
Lynda Williams, the Physics Chanteuse, returns to the stage with her new one-woman science-political musical, Atomic Cabaret.
Concert for Peace: Wissam Boustany (flute) and Aleksander Szram (piano)
Programme
Dave Heath Ascension*
Piazolla Lento – Meditativo
Nicola LeFanu The Forest, the Strand, the Sea (solo piano)
Saint-Saëns Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75
Screening: YALLAH GAZA (2023)
Exclusive screening of a new French documentary about Gaza history and its inhabitants completed just before the October 7th attack.
Book Launch: THREE REVOLUTIONS: Simon Hall in conversation with Owen Hatherley
Simon Hall and Owen Hatherley will be at Housmans to discuss Simon’s fascinating new book, Three Revulutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World.
BOOK TALK: Friends in Common by Laura C. Forster and Joel White
Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Laura C. Forster and Joel White to the shop for a dicussion of their wonderful, exhilarting book on the radical potential of friendship!
POETRY READING: Briony Hughes launches SPECULATIVE FREQUENCIES
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.
Book talk: Drax of Drax Hall with Paul Lashmar
How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery.
BOOK LAUNCH: EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL by Dan Hicks
Professor Dan Hicks will discuss his incredible new book Every Monument Will Fall: A Story Of Remembering And Forgetting, a beautifully written, polemical but generous work.
BOOK LAUNCH: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation by Juliana Gleeson
uliana Gleeson, one of the co-editors of the much acclaimed Transgender Marxism, will be back in Housmans to celebrate the publication of her new book: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liber
Book Launch: Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files by Kate Wilson
In 2003, British police infiltrated a group of young activists, forming sexual relationships and spying without warrant on hundreds of innocent civilians. Kate Wilson fought back.