Housmans Bookshop

Housmans Bookshop

Housmans Bookshop

Episodes 22
Avg. Duration 46m
Activity Highly Active
Since Apr 2025
Latest Episode May 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
83%
Hosting
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About This Podcast

Housmans Bookshop is a left wing radical bookshop in London since 1945. We frequently host fascinating authors, speakers, and other guests to talk about their work. For your listening pleasure, these events are recorded and uploaded here so that you too can enjoy our speakers even if you're unable to make it to the bookshop!

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Recent Episodes

LECTURE: Laurence Housman and the Women’s Suffrage Movement

May 27, 2026 48m

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…

Police the Beats: Lambros Fatsis w/ Adèle Oliver

May 13, 2026 49m

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,…

Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century: Laurent de Sutter in conversation with Alfie Bown

Apr 29, 2026 50m

Using the stealth capacities of hermeneutic distrust as his weapon of choice, de Sutter’s writing breaks into unrecovered areas of subtle teachings, shedding light on philosophemes gleaned from…

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

Apr 15, 2026 49m

‘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…

Frontierlands by Hazel Sheffield w/ Nadia Idle

Apr 01, 2026 41m

‘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…

May We Feed the King: Writing Radical Fiction Today w/ Rebecca Perry & Misha Honcharenko

Mar 18, 2026 33m

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…

S2E2 'The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline That Listened' with Tash Walker &Adam Zmith

Feb 18, 2026 1h 19m

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…

S2E1 'Contested Commons': A History of Protest and Public Space in England

Feb 04, 2026 40m

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. Her recent book,…

'Jaw Filler': Maz Murray & Charlie Markbreiter in conversation with So Mayer

Jan 21, 2026 1h 2m

Experimental trans neonoir fiction.‘Jaw Filler instantly joins the canon of outlier literature: jaw-dropper, more like.’– Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat GoldHousmans and Montez Press…

'Sea Now': Eva Meijer in conversation with Lucy Mercer

Jan 07, 2026 37m

‘Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence. One could read this novel as the story of two characters—the Netherlands and the sea—posing a…

The First Jasmines by Saima Begum

Dec 24, 2025 47m

Housmans and Hajar Press are delighted to celebrate the launch of this important, magnificent novel. Saima Begum’s The First Jasmines follows two sisters, Lucky and Jamila, after they are captured by…

‘Mutant Ecologies: how capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life’ with Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante

Nov 26, 2025 1h 32m

Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital Ecologies (Pluto Press) traces the spinning of new synthetic threads into the web of life. It is a critical cartography of the…

Double Launch: Danny Hayward and Matthew Goulish

Nov 12, 2025 54m

ABOUT THE BOOKS:Danny Hayward‘s Training Exercises:‘Organized violence committed on ordinary speech’ is therapy for those who don’t believe in literature as value. Training Exercises is an unpacking…

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy with Christoph Schuringa

Aug 27, 2025 54m

‘Christoph Schuringa’s A Social History of Analytic Philosophy achieves the impossible: while it follows a clear line of interpretation – analytic philosophy is not politically neutral, it is deeply…

Three Revolutions: Simon Hall in conversation with Owen Hatherley

Aug 13, 2025 44m

Simon Hall and Owen Hatherley will be joining us to discuss Simon’s fascinating new book, THREE REVOLUTIONS: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World.From the streets of…

FASCIST YOGA with STEWART HOME

Jul 29, 2025 1h 2m

We are very, very, very exited to be welcoming the dazzling provocateur, artist and all-round London legend STEWART HOME back to Housmans to talk about his latest book, Fascist Yoga: Grifters,…

Friends in Common by Laura C. Forster and Joel White

Jul 09, 2025 31m

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!Friendship is full of rev…

Every Monument Will Fall: Dan Hicks in conversation with Dr Mai Musié & Onyekachi Wambu

Jun 18, 2025 1h 20m

The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public ar…

S1E4 Book Launch: Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files by Kate Wilson

Jun 04, 2025 38m

‘It was exciting when it started, then comfortable and domestic, and over time we grew apart. If it had been real, our relationship wouldn’t have made a chapter in a memoir. But Mark was a fictional…

S1E3 The Politics of Motherhood: Alex Bollen & Helen Charman in conversation

May 27, 2025 53m

Alex Bollen is a Postnatal Practitioner with the National Childbirth Trust and researcher with over 20 years of experiance, in Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good Mother Myths she picks…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Housmans Bookshop have?

Housmans Bookshop has published 22 episodes since April 2025, covering topics in Arts, Books.

Is Housmans Bookshop still active?

Housmans Bookshop is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 46m.

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