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Housmans Bookshop'The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline That Listened' with Tash Walker &Adam ZmithAn 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 proud history and we look forward to welcoming its authors Tash Walker and Adam Zmith to the shop for an evening of discussion and celebration.In a crawlspace at the offices of Switchboard, a queer helpline in operation since 1974, lies dozens of log books kept by volunteers describing th...
2026-02-181h 19
The Book Club ReviewNearly Departed: Love, Loss and Literary Romance, with Lucas OakeleyValentine’s-ish Literary Romance: Lucas Oakley on Nearly Departed, Boys Book Club & love stories that stay with you long after readingJoin Kate and Lucas Oakeley for this Valentine's-ish episode of The Book Club Review, recorded at Housmans Bookshop in King's Cross. We're exploring literary fiction where love takes centre stage, but the reward is complexity rather than a guaranteed happy ending.Nearly Departed manages to combine the enjoyable tropes of Rom Com with the thoughtful exploration through writing that we associate with literary fiction. We explore how Lucas’s real-life experiences—witnessing a fatal cyclin...
2026-02-1546 min
摩罗之声 Voice of Mara014 | 精神的坐标 | 上海和伦敦的独立书店新年第一期节目，聊聊我们曾经走过的独立书店。主要内容聚焦于我们各自生活的城市——上海和伦敦——的小书店，它们之中有些已经在地图上被抹去了痕迹，也有一些存续了百年之久。书店的形态和内容各有不同，多样性创造出了书的繁荣，也给逛书店的人带来持续的和明朗的新知。除了这些各具特色的独立书店，本期最后集中讨论了当下与地产及文旅空间结合的连锁书店品牌。这些品牌不仅通过线下门店将书籍与文创产品结合，也进行书籍的策划和出版，同时创立文学奖，给年轻作者以支持。看过的书和走过的书店，像年轮般记录着我们的过往时光。书店是私人记忆的一部分，也是城市公共生活的一部分。希望独立书店都可以继续在城市中生存下去，成为精神地图中永恒的坐标点。也欢迎大家和我们分享你们喜欢的书店～[00:17]独立书店主题介绍[03:13]小城童年：席殊书屋与新华书店[11:31]上海书店历史沿革：从清末到民国[17:50]查令十字街84号23:15二手书与二手书店29:16查令十字街与Foyles旗舰店33:36天平路梯书店38:11大英博物馆旁的London Review Bookshop39:52愚园路野狸弄与古叶书店44:00读书与品酒：Balham街区的Backstory和洛克外滩源理想国书店48:30多功能综合体：番禺路幸福集荟53:12电影《诺丁山》与诺丁山书店58:31衡山和集：书店文化活动01:01:55奥威尔笔下的伦敦二手书店01:07:34上海1984书店01:09:40激进书店Housmans01:12:45季风书园的历史01:17:17伦敦中文书店：光华书店、卡夫卡书店、她的树和月、未读书店01:23:11上海外文书店：福州路外文书店、西岸梦中心群岛BOOKS、长乐路三联韬奋外文书店01:26:44连锁书店与文旅开发：茑屋书店、单向空间、理想国01:36:33英国最美连锁书店Daunt Books01:39:58先锋书店与乡村建设01:47:25总结：书店记录过往时光书籍 郁达夫《春风沉醉的晚上》 海莲·汉芙《查令十字街84号》 朱自清《伦敦杂记》 乔治·奥威尔《书店回忆》《让叶兰继续飘扬》电影 《诺丁山》音乐 片头&片尾：MOLI - 超级市场【本期封面】书箱绘画：小鹿【关于我们】作为一档文学播客节目，摩罗之声在历史背景和社会现实中理解文学，理解关于人与物的多样和脆弱的处境。【备注】更多关于本期提到的书店的介绍和照片，后续将会分享在同名小红书账号，有兴趣的朋友可以移步～
2026-02-091h 50Housmans Bookshop'Contested Commons': A History of Protest and Public Space in EnglandFor 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, Contested Commons is a radical history of the increasing restrictions against protest in England’s public spaces. The work is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, Cable Street and Kinder Scout, as well as sites in towns and rural areas across the country. Navickas reveals how protesters claimed th...
2026-02-0440 minHousmans Bookshop'Jaw Filler': Maz Murray & Charlie Markbreiter in conversation with So MayerExperimental 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 invites you to a conversation around the new neonoir novel Jaw Filler by Maz Murray & Charlie Markbreiter, hosted by writer So Mayer. Tickets are free but booking is essential.‘You don’t need dysphoria to be trans. You don’t need a body at all.’When Detective Sean Hastings is asked to investigate the disappearance of Character, he enters the First Trans Commune in Sim World, a virtual reality cult community imagineered by transfluencer Kevin, and ban...
2026-01-211h 02Housmans Bookshop'Sea Now': Eva Meijer in conversation with Lucy Mercer‘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 question of each other: What am I? What and who is “the Netherlands”? What and who is “the sea”? The first question implicates uncomfortable stories of value: Who determines the status quo that decides who or what (a foreigner?, a painting?) deserves to be saved, who or what (a US-trained scientist?, the Dutch language?) would count as a loss?’Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Asymptote‘One of the unanticipated highlights of my reading year…a...
2026-01-0737 minHousmans BookshopThe First Jasmines by Saima BegumHousmans 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 the military while on the way to visit their mother in what was then called East Pakistan, in 1971.Locked in a room in an unknown village-turned-camp by the river, the women look through a lone barred window onto white jasmines blooming day and night. Meanwhile, around the camp, deadly guerrilla fighters from the Bengali Mukti Bahini gather to take back territory from the Pakistan Army.As Bangladesh crowns pa...
2025-12-2447 minHousmans Bookshop‘Mutant Ecologies: how capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life’ with Erica Borg and Amedeo PolicanteMutant 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 shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in genomic science, genome editing and the biotech industry.CRISPR crops, fast-growing salmons, heat-resistant Slick™ cows, Friendly™ Mosquitoes, humanised mice, pigs growing human organs – these are but a few of the dazzling new life-forms that have recently emerged from corporate and university laboratories around the world, all promising to lubricate the circuits of capital accumulation in distinct ways. The delibe...
2025-11-261h 32Housmans BookshopDouble Launch: Danny Hayward and Matthew GoulishABOUT 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 of that dictum: seven short essays, letters, reports and anti-biographies written to overcome the feeling of resistance to the defacement of what strikes us as true. An anti-purge written out by lipstick or hammer, scrawled over the top of itself and run through a translation program that turns everything upside inside down, its pieces include: a polemic against catharsis; a letter to the poet Dom Hale on his book Seizures...
2025-11-1254 min
LawmanityJustice for Women Who Kill, with Harriet WistrichEpisode Notes
This week, we’re talking to feminist lawyer and activist, Harriet Wistrich, about her decades-long commitment to seeking justice for women who kill their abusive partners, and her determined fight for justice for women, in a system designed for men.
Harriet talks about her journey to becoming an activist lawyer, why she founded the charity Centre for Women’s Justice in 2016, and many of her high-profile cases from over 25 years’ at the frontline of legal practice - also covered in her stunning 2024 debut book: “Sister in Law”.
Buy the book here:
Sister...
2025-09-0224 minHousmans BookshopA Social History of Analytic Philosophy with Christoph Schuringa‘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 rooted in capitalist liberalism and its struggle against Leftist engagement -, it develops this line in a vast and complex narrative full of fascinating historical and personal details, from the Cambridge beginnings of analytic thought (Russell, Moore) through the key role of analytic philosophy in McCarthy purges up to how analytic approach was crucial in including anti-colonial and feminist orientations into the liberal frame (Appiah). Schuringa’s book is unputdownable – applied to it, thi...
2025-08-2754 min
Queer Lit“Lighthouse” Queer Space Special with Mairi OliverIf you can’t find me, I’m probably still browsing shelves of queer joy at Lighthouse, Edinburgh’s superb radical bookshop. The delightful owner Mairi Oliver took some time to chat with me about the long history of radical and queer bookshops that have come before and exist alongside this absolute gem of a queer space. We speak about queer spaces changing hands and transforming, rather than disappearing, about the magic of queer and trans book events, and about why radical booksellers are so important for local community. References:Word PowerElaine...
2025-08-2621 minHousmans BookshopThree Revolutions: Simon Hall in conversation with Owen HatherleySimon 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 Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao’s stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel’s triumphant arrival in Havana, in January 1959, the history of the twentieth century was transformed in dramatic and profound ways by the Russian, Chinese, and Cuban revolutions.In Three Revolutions, the stories of these epoch-defining events are told together for the first time. At the heart of each revolution was an epic journe...
2025-08-1344 minHousmans BookshopFASCIST YOGA with STEWART HOMEWe 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, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness, a dazzling exposé on the violent politics and occultic fascism that underpins much of the history of contemporary yoga. As ever, Stewart Home shows that nothing is sacred.The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release, thanks to the power of its ‘mystic’ Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps away the h...
2025-07-291h 02Housmans BookshopFriends in Common by Laura C. Forster and Joel WhiteHousmans 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 revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system. Friends in Common explores friendship as a radical practice, capable of upending hierarchies and producing social change.Friendship can transcend social boundaries and political borders. It is vital in building communities and underpinning solidarity. But its transformative potency ensures that it is heavily policed and restrained by the state. Understanding the radical possibilities of friendship can help us rethink our approach to family, work and poli...
2025-07-0931 minHousmans BookshopEvery Monument Will Fall: Dan Hicks in conversation with Dr Mai Musié & Onyekachi WambuThe 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 art, and even universities – and one that has a deeper history than you might think.We are delighted to welcome Professor Dan Hicks back to Housmans to discuss his incredible new book Every Monument Will Fall: A Story Of Remembering And Forgetting, a beautifully written, polemical but generous work. Tracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, heritage, memory, and colonialism, Every Monument Will Fall joins the dots between the b...
2025-06-181h 20Housmans BookshopBook Launch: Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files by Kate Wilson‘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 character, contrived by the British state to violate me and undermine the values I held dearest. And the entire time, EN31 was sitting around the corner, writing it all down, watching our lives unfold.’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. She took the Met to...
2025-06-0438 minHousmans BookshopThe Politics of Motherhood: Alex Bollen & Helen Charman in conversationAlex 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 apart the pernicious histories of what she refers to as ‘Good Mother Myths.’ These myths are deployed to censure mothers and blame them for society’s problems. Incensed by the way bad science is used to shame mothers, she decided to set the record straight. With meticulous research and keen insight, Motherdom exposes both the shaky science and unjustified prescriptions about how mothers should ‘naturally’ behave. Competing visions of birth – ‘natural’ versus ‘medical’ – mean women can be criticised whatever happens, ra...
2025-05-2753 minHousmans BookshopSquatting London with Samuel BergumSquatting in London has a rich and diverse history. Today, squatters live a marginalised, stigmatised and criminalised existence, yet they persist. Behind the glittering façade of shiny new buildings, London is a network of vacant offices, boarded-up shops and dilapidated pubs that host some of the city’s poorest and most determined citizens, exiled and increasingly pushed to the margins.We are very excited to welcome Samuel Burgum to Housmans to talk about his vital new book about a facinating, and much neglected, part of our urban history. Squatting London: The Politics of Property is an account of the...
2025-05-0735 minHousmans BookshopThe Psychic Lives of Statues with Rahul RaoFrom Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present.We are very excited to be launching The Psychic Lives of Statues by Rahul Rao which offers an insightful exploration of these global controversies, demonstrating that beneath their surface lie deeper struggles over race, caste, and the politics of decolonisation.Rao takes readers on a journey through South Africa, England, the US, Ghana, India, Australia, and Scotland, revealing how statue controversies have dramatically rearranged the canon of anticolonial political thought. By examining these debates through a personal and literary lens, Rao addresses the multifaceted issues of justic...
2025-04-0248 min
Curious ReadersEp 5: Our Favourite New York/London NovelsJoin either side of the Atlantic as we dive into our favourite London/New York novels. It’s an episode full of stiff upper lips, demonic possessions, sociopaths, bedsits, alcoholic dollmakers, sassy parrots, and white asparagus. Plus we talk about our must visit NY-LON bookshops and reading spots, and we look ahead to new releases set in and around the Big Smoke and the Big Apple we can’t wait to read. Recent readsUniversality by Natasha BrownHunchback by Saou Ichikawa (translated by Polly Barton)
2025-03-1252 min
Tijdens de Pauze - De podcast die je alles vertelt over perimenopauze en menopauze12. Kritische vragen en hoopvolle inzichten over menopauze en hormonen - Dr. Susanne Housmans & Heidi De Bie💖 In deze aflevering van Tijdens de Pauze praat ik met Dr. Susanne Housmans, gynaecologe en hoofd van de dienst Women's Health in UZ Leuven, en Heidi De Bie, vroedvrouw en menopauzeconsulente. Samen gaan we in op de grote vragen rond menopauze, hormoontherapie en de rol van leefstijl.🔎 Wat kun je verwachten?🩷 Waarom gynaecologe Susanne Housmans en menopauzeconsulente Heidi De Bie voor dit vak kozen🩷 De impact van de WHI-studie van 2002 en de gevolgen tot vandaag🩷 Waarom menopauze en hormoonsubstitutie amper aan bod kwamen in de opleiding🩷Het gebrek aan kennis over me...
2025-02-2148 min
The Exam ManSammy Wright, Author Of 'Exam Nation'This week we welcome our first author guest onto the podcast, Sammy Wright- how could we not, when he has written a book called 'Exam Nation'! The book has certainly made waves, with reviews in The Guardian and The Times amongst others, and it was Book of the Week on Radio 4 last month.Once we established that Sammy wasn't attempting to make John and all other exams officers redundant, we entered into a lively discussion about not just the purpose of exams, but also of school. We hear about what Sammy thinks about how we assess...
2024-09-0939 min
Blood and BourbonEp. 14 Angie Marie HousmanSources
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2024-06-1951 min
FUTURES PodcastReclaiming Tech w/ Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams & Alison WinchCultural & Political Theorists Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams & Alison Winch share their insights on the societal impacts of technological innovation, the hegemonic power of the Silicon Valley tech billionaires, and re-engineering digital platforms for democratic purposes. Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural & Political Theory at the University of East London. He is the author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism, Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics and Twenty-First Century Socialism. He writes regularly in the British press, is the current editor of the journal New Formations, and hosts three regular podcasts: #AC...
2024-04-2948 min
FUTURES PodcastBlockchain Radicals w/ Joshua DávilaBlockchain Socialist Joshua Dávila shares his insights on using blockchain technology to challenge capitalism, why we should take a techno-probabalistic approach to crypto, and how to build a more equitable and decentralised world. Joshua Dávila has been working in the blockchain space for the past five years in Europe and has been anonymously moonlighting as the one behind The Blockchain Socialist blog and podcast. He is also the co-director of the upcoming documentary Crypto Futures which explores the alternative economic imaginaries of the crypto ecosystem that the mainstream media doesn't cover. This episode was re...
2024-04-0241 min
Acid HorizonAcid Horizon's 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape' Book Launch Event at Housmans Bookshop 11.18.23Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/Anti-Oculus is a work of conceptual espionage: an assemblage of polemical tracts complete with a gallery of graphic illustrations inspired by postmodern and pulp classics from Anti-Oedipus to Ways of Seeing.Through the concept of “Ocularity”, the Acid Horizon crew trace the political, medical, and historical ways power sees us through its categories of control and counter-insurgency.From the thermodynamics of policing in the cyberpunk present, to the psychiatric colonization of the image, to bodies that “go astray” in an increasingly reactionary society; Anti-Oculus maps out the...
2023-11-221h 14
Warrior NationThe War Racket: Reflections & Predictions (SE4 EP10)In our final episode of Series 4, we speak with Paul Rogers on the parallels and differences between the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine, and reflect on some of the key themes that have emerged across the past five months. Paul is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies in the Department of Peace Studies and International Relations at Bradford University, and an Honorary Fellow at the Joint Service Command and Staff College. You can read his rich body of work as openDemocracy’s international security correspondent by following this link. He is on Twitter via @ProfPRogers. Support the s...
2023-03-3056 minWarrior NationWar & Police: Linking the Cops & the Military (SE4 EP9)It cannot be denied that the police are becoming more militarised - not just in the United States but here in Britain. Yet this focus on hardware presents the cops and the military as separate entities. In reality, they are built from the same foundations. In this episode we speak with academic and activist Chris Rossdale about the colonial history of the police, how the military is overwhelmingly used in policing roles and why we should see the two institutions as part of the same apparatus of oppression. Part of the discussion centres around the...
2023-03-1547 minWarrior NationA Material World: Think-Tank Funding & Defending the Status Quo (SE4 EP8)Think-tanks are a key part of the political process in the UK - indeed globally - but do they actually promote democracy? Which ones have influence, how are they funded, and what role does legacy media have in amplifying their ideas.In this episode we speak with Rethinking Security coordinator Richard Reeve and academic Kjølv Egeland, experts in the multifaceted world of defence and security think-tanks. They discuss how funding plays a key role in think-tank output, constraining critique and ensuring the most dominant ideas remain within the boundaries of the status quo.You ca...
2023-03-0241 min
BodempodcastBodempodcast #17 omschakelen biologisch: vakmanschap, vruchtwisseling en van onkruidbestrijding naar onkruidbeheersingMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In december 2022 is door de minister het Biologisch Actieplan gelanceerd met als doelstelling 15% biologische landbouw in 2030. Maar wat komt er eigenlijk kijken bij omschakelen? En wat betekend dit op het vlak van bodembeheer? In de nieuwe aflevering van de Bodempodcast leer je er alles over. We zijn te gast bij biologisch melkveehouder Pieter Boons in Raamsdonk samen met Hanna Pluimes van Voor Bio. In de podcast komen de verschillende aspecten van een biologische bedrijfsvoering v...
2023-02-2239 minWarrior NationEverything Looks Like a Nail: Why the Military Can't Save the Planet (SE4 EP7)As the impacts of the climate crisis escalate, there is a growing trend for securitised responses that foreground the role of militaries in tackling the fallout. But whose interests do these militaries serve and what role have they played in bringing about environmental catastrophe.In this episode we speak with Nick Buxton, a communications specialist with 20 years experience in climate sustainability and international development, to pick his brain on the intersection between climate change, the military and security. Nick has produced an incredible body of work for the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute, covering climate change, border securitisation, Big...
2023-02-1051 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #15 Samenwerking veehouderij-akkerbouw: distels, twee-jarig grasklaver en het sluiten van kringlopenMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze aflevering van de Bodempodcast is het onderwerp de samenwerking tussen veehouderij- akkerbouwbedrijven en het effect hiervan op de bodem. Samen met Udo Prins van het Louis Bolk Instituut zijn we hiervoor te gast bij de proeftuin Pallandtpolder op Goeree Overflakkee waar Remco Wesdorp (akkerbouwer) en Huibert Groeneveld (melkveehouder) nauw samenwerken. In de podcast gaat het o.a. over de verschillende vormen van samenwerking die mogelijk zijn, hoe je bijvoorbeeld vlinderbloemige en grasklaver b...
2023-02-0844 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #14 Open Bodem Index: bodemkwaliteitsmonitoring, duurzaamheidskorting en de waarde van grondMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze aflevering van de bodempodcast hebben we het over de Open Bodem Index: een gratis online tool die bodemkwaliteit inzichtelijk maakt en een basis biedt voor het belonen hiervan. In deze podcast hebben we het met Jan-Arie Korevaar (directeur Open Bodem Index), Jeen Nijboer (Rabobank) en Fadyan Pronk (A.S.R.) over de OBI. Hoe de tool is opgezet, hoe het bodemkwaliteit inzichtelijk maakt en wat je er in je bedrijfsvoering mee kunt. D...
2023-02-0136 minWarrior NationDark Economics: Understanding the Politics of Defence Budgets (SE4 EP6)As the sentiment goes, there always seems to be money for warfare but never quite enough for welfare. So what's the picture in the UK - that tiny collection of islands with its towering defence expenditure. In this episode, we're joined by Matt Fawcett from the Global Campaign on Military Spending UK to discuss the dark economics of Britain's war machine.Matt talks about the troubling gaps between what Britain spends on its military and what it spends on climate mitigation or carbon reduction targets. Not to mention international aid budgets. He also adds the GCOMS take...
2023-01-1836 minWarrior NationAnti-Establishment Ethos: Critiquing the Military and Foreign Policy (SE4 EP5)Foreign and military policy doesn’t cut through to voters, or so it is said. What matters to the public is bread and butter economic policy or GP surgery hours. Yet, is it really the case that people simply don’t care about, for example, Yemen? And if not, why not? Is it the case that the main parties are so alike on these matters that there appears to be no space for debate? Much was made of Qatar's human rights record during the men's World Cup, but where was any critique of the RAF's role in trai...
2023-01-0549 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #13 Maatregelen akkerbouw: het bouwplan, de mechanisatie en bemestingsstrategie van de Boerderij van de ToekomstMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze aflevering van de Bodempodcast zijn we te gast op een bijzondere akkerbouwbedrijf, namelijk de Boerderij van de Toekomst in Lelystad. Janjo de Haan van de Wageningen Universiteit vertelt je in deze aflevering over hoe het akkerbouwbedrijf van de toekomst eruit zou kunnen zien en op welke manier ze hiermee op de boerderij experimenteren. Het zal o.a. gaan over mechanisatie, een toekomstbestendig bouwplan en hoe je je bemestingsstrategie aanpast aan verlaagde gebruiksnormen. O...
2022-12-2146 minWarrior NationVery Murky: the Arms Trade and Parliament (SE4 EP4)Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) is the preeminent anti-arms trade organisation in the UK. Their advocacy for a safer and fairer world extends into many realms, including Parliament – where defence firms wield unchecked influence over elected politicians.In this episode we speak with Katie Fallon, CAAT’s Parliamentary Coordinator, to discuss the difficulties of working in spaces where militarism and war are seen as inevitabilities. Our discussion is wide-ranging: from the revolving door to the multi-faceted opportunities for lobbying in a broke political system.You can keep up to date with CAAT's incredible work here...
2022-12-1541 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #12 Bodem en klimaat: agroforestry, CO2 credits en nieuwe verdienmodellenMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In de aflevering van deze week hebben we het over het veranderende klimaat, hoe je je bedrijf én bodem hierop voorbereidt en welke nieuwe verdienmodellen hierin mogelijk zijn. Evert Prins (Louis Bolk Instituut) neemt ons mee in zijn verhaal en vertelt ons bovendien meer over agroforestry. We zijn te gast bij Rick Huis in ’t Veld uit Lettele, Overijssel, die al meerdere jaren werkt aan het inpassen van agroforestry in zijn bedrijf. Hij vertelt ons...
2022-12-1450 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #11 Groenbemesters: mengsel vs. mono, aaltjes en je bodem op ‘sabbatical year’Meer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
Dit keer hebben we het op een akkerbouwbedrijf in Kruisland, Brabant over het onderwerp groenbemesters. Marianne Hoogmoed (onderzoeker bij het Louis Bolk Instituut) verteld in deze aflevering over de rol die groenbemesters spelen in de opbouw en het behoudt van een goede bodemkwaliteit. Daarnaast gaat het o.a. over de voor- en nadelen van mengsels ten opzichte van enkelvoudige groenbemesters en over problemen met aaltjes en hoe die te voorkomen. Ook gaan we in o...
2022-12-0742 minWarrior NationGentleman Bureaucrat Masculinity: Liberal Militarism and the Civil Service (SE4 EP3)When it comes to critiquing and analysing how Government works to support the military, the focus is always on politicians and the lobbying work that seeks to influence them. But what about the people in Whitehall who oil the political machine? Civil servants out-live the ministers, cabinets and governments they work for, and have more influence than we fully understand. If the overall culture within the civil service is pro-military, then it stands to reason that the mechanics of government will naturally support the armed forces.In this episode we speak with Hannah Wright, a scholar who...
2022-11-3044 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #10 Maatregelen melkveehouderij: weidegang, alternatieve teelten op veen en wat is nieuw Nederlands Landgebruik?Meer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze aflevering hebben we het over het onderwerp bodemmaatregelen voor melkveebedrijven. We zijn te gast op Kennis Transfer Centrum Zegveld, waar Pieter Struyk (Louis Bolk Instituut) en Karel van Houwelingen (KTC Zegveld) ons vertellen over hoe je via management goed voor je bodem kan zorgen. Het gaat dan over optimaal landgebruik, opties voor drainage, het belang van weidegang, hoe je kruidenrijk grasland kan laten slagen en alternatieve teelten voor veen. Ook gaan we w...
2022-11-3043 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #9 Grondbewerking: Ploegen of NKG en woelen doe je in bedMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze aflevering hebben we het met Coen ter Berg over het onderwerp grondbewerking en zijn we te gast bij het akkerbouwbedrijf van Maik Verwer, te Kraggenburg. Coen verteld ons over het effect van grondbewerking op de bodem en hoe je hier met zorg mee om kan gaan. Goede grondbewerking is een verhaal van de juiste actie op het juiste moment uitvoeren, en vooral soms ook even niets doen. Maik verteld over zijn ervaringen m...
2022-11-2349 minWarrior NationLifting the Rock: the Military and Justice (SE4 EP2)From Deepcut to sexual abuse cases and war crimes, the UK military and MOD are no stranger to legal controversy. And when you read back through the reportage around this lamentable list one name recurs again and again, acting in opposition to power and in favour of fairness and human rights.Emma Norton is Director and co-founder of the Centre for Military Justice, whose work we at Forces Watch greatly admire. She is also former head of the legal team at human rights organisation Liberty and lectures twice a year at the Defence Academy on human rights a...
2022-11-1646 minWarrior NationDirty Secrets: the Press and the Military (SE4 EP1)Back in 2003, every national British newspaper bar the Guardian supported the invasion of Iraq - including The Guardian's sister paper, The Observer. Unfortunately, this was not an anomaly (dodgy dossiers or not). The sad truth is that it is very hard to find critical pieces on the UK's armed forces. And since the Edward Snowden leaks, Britain's intelligence establishment has worked assiduously to ensure that even The Guardian begins to tow the line.You really can’t talk about British defence and security journalism without mentioning today’s guest. Richard Norton-Taylor covered defence and security for The Guar...
2022-11-031h 17BodempodcastBodempodcast #8 Bemesting: het klei-hummuscomplex, precisiebemesting en 7de actieprogramma nitraatMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze podcast hebben we het samen met Marianne Hoogmoed van het Louis Bolk instituut over het onderwerp bemesting. We zijn te gast bij het akkerbouwbedrijf van Corine de Winter in Kruisland, Noord-Brabant. Marianne vertelt ons over het effect van verschillende bemestingssoorten op de bodem en hoe je hiermee kan sturen. Daarnaast gaat het onder andere over precisiebemesting (zonder robots en drones) en welke winst hiermee te behalen valt. Ook gaan we in op v...
2022-10-2646 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #7 Waterhuishouding: Een veranderend klimaat, seizoensrijpaden, en het weerbericht onder je kussenMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze aflevering van de bodempodcast gaan we het hebben over waterhuishouding. Dit doen wij samen met Merel Hondebrink van het Louis Bolk instituut en we zijn te gast bij André Jurrius van Ekoboerderij de Lingehof in Randwijk, Gelderland. Merel verteld ons over het belang van een goede waterhuishouding en wat hier precies bij komt kijken. Samen met André beantwoord zij vragen als: hoe zorg je voor een goede waterhuishouding van je bodem? Wat kunn...
2022-10-1845 min
Mark and Zac 'The Outsiders' Podcast Show.The Outsiders - 2. Live from Housmans Bookshop (Kings Cross, London): Refuge of the Heart (storytelling by outsiders for outsiders)Send us a textMark and Zac met up in London for their monthly 'live' recording and the venue was the historical bookstore 'Housmans' in Kings Cross. An established bookshop and meeting place for London (and UK's ) various radical movements over the years, therefore, an ideal place for Outsiders to record a podcast !If you are interested in finding out more about 'Housmans' as both a radical bookseller and its history, please go the link below;www.housmans.comMark and Zac, discuss the importance of books and bookshops as places and...
2022-10-1424 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #6 Bodemstructuur: Stalmest, diepe verdichting en groenbemester als volwaardige teeltMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze aflevering van de bodempodcast gaan we het hebben over bodemstructuur. Dit doen wij samen met Coen ter Berg. We zijn te gast bij Maik Verwer, akkerbouwer in Kraggenburg, Noordoostpolder. Coen verteld ons over het belang van bodemstructuur, de verschillende risicofactoren die voor structuurbederf kunnen zorgen en hij legt ons uit wat het belang is van bodemleven en beworteling als je je bodemstructuur voor de langere termijn wilt verbeteren. Daarnaast verteld Maik ons...
2022-10-1243 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #5 Bodemchemie: bodemanalyses, gebreksverschijnselen en de dynamiek van de kationenMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
De vijfde aflevering van de bodempodcast is nu online te beluisteren! In deze aflevering van de bodempodcast gaan we het hebben over bodemchemie. Mede aan de hand van een bodemanalyse lopen we enkele belangrijke elementen langs en hun rol in de bedrijfsvoering. Voor de aflevering zijn we wederom te gast bij het akkerbouwbedrijf van Klaas Hoekstra in Feinsum, Friesland. Leen Janmaat van het Louis Bolk Instituut neemt ons mee in zijn verhaal over bodemchemie en...
2022-10-0552 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #4 Beworteling: penwortels, nutriëntbenutting en wortelexsudatenMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze aflevering van de bodempodcast gaan we het hebben over beworteling. Beworteling speelt een cruciale rol in de bodem. Zo maken ze structuur, dragen bij aan een goede nutriëntbenutting en de draagkracht van je bodem. Voor deze aflevering zijn we wederom te gast bij bij Sierd Deinum, melkveehouder in Sondel. Pieter Struyk van het Louis Bolk instituut neemt ons mee in zijn verhaal over beworteling en geeft praktische tips om beworteling te s...
2022-09-2841 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #3 Organische stof: Koolstof en stikstofboeren, NKG en pootgoedMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze aflevering hebben we het over de rol van organische stof in de bodem. Samen met Leen Janmaat, onderzoeker bij het Louis Bolk Instituut zijn we te gast bij akkerbouwers Klaas Hoekstra in Feinsum, Friesland. Klaas werkt al een tijd met Niet kerende grondbewerking en is bewust bezig met het organische stof gehalte in zijn bodem. We hebben het over het belang van organische stof, waarom het belangrijk is dit goed in verhouding...
2022-09-2146 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #2 Bodemleven: eten en gegeten worden, stikstofbolletjes, pendelaarsMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In deze aflevering van de bodempodcast hebben we het over de rol van bodemleven in de bodem en productie. Samen met Pieter Struyk van het Louis Bolk instituut zijn we te gast bij Sierd Deinum Biodynamisch melkveehouder Sierd Deinum in Sondel, Friesland. Sierd loopt als sinds jongs af aan rond op deze boerderij en heeft al veel stappen ondernomen om zijn bodemkwaliteit te verbeteren. Het bodemleven kent een diversheid aan soorten d...
2022-09-1449 minBodempodcastBodempodcast #1 Bodemkwaliteit: bodemanalyses, bokashi en schijtbossenMeer weten of jouw eigen vragen over jouw bodem stellen aan een bodemkundige? Meld je aan voor de podcast via www.mijnbodemconditie.nl
In de eerste podcast gaan we in op het onderwerp bodemkwaliteit. Een soms wat vaag en breed begrip dat we in deze aflevering concreter gaan te maken. Samen met Nick van Eekeren van het Louis Bolk instituut en melkveehouder Martijn Muskens bespreken we de verschillende elementen van bodemkwaliteit, om het zo wat tastbaarder te maken. Nick leert ons ook hoe we bodemkwaliteit kunnen bepalen zowel aan de hand van bodemanalyses als i...
2022-09-0753 min
Murder and MiseryAngie HousmanIn this episode Jill tells us about the mysterious disappearance and brutal murder of a 9 year old girl, taken from her own street. It took many years to solve this case but finally her attacker has been brought to justice - for this and other crimes.
Our sources for this episode include:
https://www.themidwestcrimefiles.com/post/little-girl-lost-the-angie-housman-story
https://heavy.com/news/2019/06/angie-housman/
https://truthtellersweb.wordpress.com/2019/02/09/angie-housman-st-ann-mo-abducted-tortured-tied-to-a-tree-and-left-to-die-25-years-later-no-arrests-no-named-suspects-250k-reward/comment-page-2/
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/investigations/angie-housmans-father-breaks-silence/63-3788c183-926a-46c7-bee6-fa4c0c5f68a...
2022-04-2840 min
requires improvement026// British Child Soldiers For The Class War feat. Joe GlentonWe are honoured to be joined by journalist and ex-soldier Joe Glenton, as we consider the role of militarism in Britain and the UK education system. We draw upon themes in Joe's new book out this month entitled "Veteranhood: Rage and Hope in British Ex-Military Life", in a wide ranging discussion around how the military is presented in schools, the curriculum and society at large. We discuss the outrageous headlines recently surrounding the allegations of abuse towards 16-18 year old children at the Army Foundation College, lesser known histories of radical struggle from within the armed forces and the pressing...
2021-11-251h 06requires improvement024// The Work We Do For Love feat. Sarah JaffeIn this July 2021 episode of Requires Improvement, we are joined by author and journalist Sarah Jaffe, as we discuss and explore the wider impact of work in our lives in response to Sarah's recent publication "Work Won't Love You Back", a book which comprehensively analyses and challenges the insidious ways in which workers are convinced that our jobs and working conditions are necessary or fulfilling, especially in contexts where caring professionals are routinely coerced into tolerating exploitation and suffering.
Hosted by Charlie with co-hosts Lauren and Anu, in a wide-ranging discussion we consider our complex relationships with jobs and careers...
2021-07-301h 05
Haymarket Books LiveBorder Abolition Now w/ Harsha Walia, Gargi Bhattacharyya, & Maya GoodfellowHarsha Walia, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Maya Goodfellow discuss the global migration crisis, racial capitalism, and the ascendant far-right.
How do borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, and racist rule?
Amidst a global pandemic, governments around the world have accelerated border closings, imposed more barriers to asylum seekers, and expanded immigrant detention. In Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism, Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide.
Join Harsha...
2021-05-251h 28
The Dickens Olewe podcast'Travelling While Black' a conversation with Nanjala Nyabola'Travelling While Black' with Nanjala Nyabola. A conversation hosted by
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2021-02-191h 27
Crimes & ClosetsAngie Housman 9 year old Angie Housman disappeared after getting off her bus on November 18, 1993. She was found 9 days later in a remote wildlife preserve in the St. Louis area. Her killer was brought to justice many years later but her story still needs to be told.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onvJDj9ul3E
https://www.kmov.com/news/man-61-charged-in-1993-cold-case-murder-of-angie-housman/article_6175b7fa-87cc-11e9-8a00-375e8c6e93f7.html
https://fox2now.com/news/angie-housmans-suspected-murderer-to-appear-in-court/
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/angie-housman-death-new-details/63-2e8...
2021-01-2536 min
Skräckinjagande väsenVarulvarI det här avsnittet pratar Miriam och Malin om en mycket efterfrågad varelse. Skräckinjagande väsen är en podd om folktro runt om i världen, med fokus på de varelser som vid olika tidpunkter i historien skrämt upp människor.
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2020-12-1038 min
The Bisexual AgendaThe Bookish TypeMy guest this week is Ray, one half of The Bookish Type! We’re talking radical queer bookshops, queer romance (that won’t make you cry), and Ray’s Bisexual Agenda.
P.S I’ve linked all the books we mention in this episode - just scroll down!
TW & CW:
We briefly mention lockdown and coronavirus during this episode.
Main segment: smoking
Agenda: Identity politics, coming out, cis actors being cast as trans characters, crying, erasure of queer history
Book recommendations: homophobia, mental health, being closeted, sexism, horror, sex drugs and rock and roll, vampires, consent, insects, bullying, othering of queer ki...
2020-11-3057 min
Left WhingersLGBTQ+ Rights in Modern Britain with LGSM's Mike JacksonLeft Whingers spoke to the brilliant Mike Jackson - a founding member of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners - about everything from Pride the move, Section 28, Inclusive sex education and the Gender Recognition Act. If you fancy supporting LGSM and picking up one of their fabulous t-shirts, click this link: https://housmans.com/product/pits-perverts-t-shirt/
We were also joined by two amazing activists - Elsie Greenwood (co-chair of LGBT Labour Scotland) and Jason Parkinson (LGBTQ+ activist) - to hear their perspectives and experiences.
As always, thank you to Leyton for our theme music - yo...
2020-06-3042 min
Adulting#67 Systemic Racism In The UK with Adam Pugh & Africa Daley-ClarkeHey Podulters, this episode was recorded live on the 10th February, however the sound quality wasn't very good so it never got released. In light of recents events I felt it needed to be shared more than ever so my fantastic producer Spike worked really hard to make it listenable! This episode is with Adam Pugh and Africa Daley-Clarke and it is about systemic racism in the UK. I hope you find it insightful and enlightening. I have included some resources below. O xxActions and resources to support #BlackLivesMatterhttps://docs.google...
2020-06-031h 14Adulting#67 Systemic Racism In The UK with Adam Pugh & Africa Daley-ClarkeHey Podulters, this episode was recorded live on the 10th February, however the sound quality wasn't very good so it never got released. In light of recents events I felt it needed to be shared more than ever so my fantastic producer Spike worked really hard to make it listenable! This episode is with Adam Pugh and Africa Daley-Clarke and it is about systemic racism in the UK. I hope you find it insightful and enlightening. I have included some resources below. O xxActions and resources to support #BlackLivesMatterhttps://docs.google...
2020-06-031h 14Warrior NationLowkey in conversation with Maya Evans and Joe Glenton: Militarism, War and ResistanceFor the finale of our first podcast season, we spoke to political hip hop artist Lowkey about war, militarism, the current political climate, and our hopes and prospects for the future. The event was recorded in front of a live audience at Housmans Bookshop in London on 4 December and co-hosted with peace activist Maya Evans. The music in this podcast is from Hand On Your Gun by Lowkey.Follow us on Instagram.Support the show
2019-12-1153 min
Not Another Book PodcastS2 EP6 | A Celebration Of #indiebookshopweek :Live Episode With Irenosen Okojie At HousmansWe sat down with a lot bae, Irenosen Okojie, to get the scoop on her upcoming books but also her writer's journey. We discussed:- Book faves- Bad-ass women of colour in publishing - Changing publishers- Writing process- Writing about London - The magic of short storiesContinue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #NotAnotherBook
2019-07-111h 15
Dissident Island RadioDissident Island Radio – 7 June 2019 – Episode 235 Dissident Island Radio episode 235 with a scorching serving of: – Student Climate Action on their work around the Youth Climate Strike (00:01:05 – 00:10:10) – Activist Court Aid Brigade on legal wages & court updates (00:27:40 – 00:38:47) – Announcements (00:57:45 – 00:59:00) – A 3-part interview with Nik from Housmans on the Alliance of Radical Booksellers & 2019’s Bread and Roses Book Prize for Radical Publishing – p.1: (00:10:45 – 00:24:40), p.2: (00:43:45 – 00:56:55), p.3: (00:59:00 – 01:04:55) – D*I’s June offering of B@D News for the monthly Anarchist Radio Network podcast (01:04:55 – 01:14:20) – Hawt Gleetch to close from Oliotronix! (01:14:20 – 02:15:14) Download the full show below, or you can download just the chat show and/or dj set se
2019-06-262h 15Dissident Island RadioDissident Island Radio – 7 June 2019 – Episode 235
Dissident Island Radio episode 235 with a scorching serving of:
– Student Climate Action on their work around the Youth Climate Strike (00:01:05 – 00:10:10)
– Activist Court Aid Brigade on legal wages & court updates (00:27:40 – 00:38:47)
– Announcements (00:57:45 – 00:59:00)
– A 3-part interview with Nik from Housmans on the Alliance of Radical Booksellers & 2019’s Bread and Roses Book Prize for Radical Publishing – p.1: (00:10:45 – 00:24:40), p.2: (00:43:45 – 00:56:55), p.3: (00:59:00 – 01:04:55)
– D*I’s June offering of B@D News for the monthly Anarchist Radio Network podcast (01:04:55 – 01:14:20)
– Hawt Gleetch to close from Oliotronix! (01:14:20 – 02:15:14)
Download the full show below, or you c...
2019-06-2600 min
Music for FilmsMore Music for Films - Caledonian Road - The War Game, with Andrew Smith1 hour 43 min podcast version. Not safe for work. Contains some swearing and adult themes.
Interesting people talk about the music, films and music for films which have shaped their lives.
Roz Kaveney, Tim Concannon and their guest Andrew Smith wander down busy Caledonian Road in North London, to Housmans peace bookshop near to Kings Cross station. They discuss two linked technologies produced by the atomic age, computers and nuclear arms, and the ways that the peace movement and radicalism have responded to both being part of modern armed conflict.
The starting point for the conversation is Pete Watkins’s 1965 film fo...
2018-08-011h 43Music for FilmsMore Music for Films - Caledonian Road - The War Game, with Andrew Smith1 hour 43 min podcast version. Not safe for work. Contains some swearing and adult themes.
Interesting people talk about the music, films and music for films which have shaped their lives.
Roz Kaveney, Tim Concannon and their guest Andrew Smith wander down busy Caledonian Road in North London, to Housmans peace bookshop near to Kings Cross station. They discuss two linked technologies produced by the atomic age, computers and nuclear arms, and the ways that the peace movement and radicalism have responded to both being part of modern armed conflict.
The starting point for the conversation is Pete Watkins’s 1965 film fo...
2018-08-011h 43
Housmans Radical Booksellers' Podcast'Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House' with Mike WendlingThis book is a vital guide to understanding the Alt-Right - the white nationalist, misogynist, far-right movement that rose to prominence during Donald Trump's successful election campaign in the United States. It looks at the support for this reactionary network, arguing that while Trump is in office and the far-right grows across Europe, we need to gain a deeper understanding of the movement's philosophy, history and role in politics today.
While the movement appears to have burst out of nowhere, Mike Wendling has been tracking the Alt-Right for years. He reveals the role of technological utopians, reactionary philosophers, the...
2018-05-1919 min
Housmans Radical Booksellers' PodcastHow the Establishment Lost Control with Chris NinehamThe post-war consensus is breaking up. The general election result, the 2014 Scottish referendum and the Brexit vote all testify to an insurgent mood amongst swathes of the population. This book attempts to explain these dramatic developments and to show how they question received notions about politics, history and how change happens.
Reviews
A highly readable, fast moving account of how the British establishment have lost the plot. Chris Nineham reveals, often using their own words, that they know they have, but they would rather you didn’t read it here... ~ Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%
An important an...
2018-01-191h 04
Housmans Radical Booksellers' PodcastHow to Resist: Turn Protest to Power‘How to Resist: Turn Protest to Power’
with Matthew Bolton in conversation with Wail Qasim
Wednesday 27th September,7pm
It's easy to feel dispirited by the world around us. We need change but as one person alone, it can all seem far too daunting. What can one person alone achieve? Where to begin?
How to Resist reminds us that all great social change movements in history have been organised by ordinary people coming together, being brave and changing the course of history. Whoever and wherever we are, if we want to effect change, the first step is to look at o...
2017-10-3038 min
Housmans Radical Booksellers' Podcast‘Pride – The Book’ with Lesbians & Gays Support The MinersMike Jackson, Jonathan Blake and Gethin Roberts - members of the original LGSM crew - launch ‘Pride’, the book of the hit film, which tells the true story of how in 1984 a group of gay men and lesbian women came to befriend and support a very traditional mining community in the remote valleys of South Wales.
In 1984, a small group of metropolitan homosexual men and lesbian women stepped away from the vibrant culture and hedonism of London's defiant gay scene to befriend and support the beleaguered villages of a very traditional mining community in the remote valleys of South Wale...
2017-09-0445 min
Housmans Radical Booksellers' PodcastBig Capital: Who Is London For? - Anna MintonA talk given at Housmans Bookshop - 18/07/17
Anna Minton discusses the politics and complexities of the ongoing housing crisis, which is felt particularly sharply here in London, and which has been brought into even sharper relief by the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
London is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK. Despite the desperate shortage of housing, tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of affordable homes are being pulled down, replaced by luxury apartments aimed at foreign investors. In this ideological war, housing is no longer considered a public good.
Instead...
2017-08-0232 min
Housmans Radical Booksellers' Podcast‘A People's History of the Russian Revolution’ with Neil Faulkner (Left Book Club event)The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths. In this fast-paced introduction to tumultuous events, the Russian people are the heroes. Faulkner shows how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action, destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers, and warmongers.
Faulkner rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators, 'democratic-centralists', or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship. He argues that the Russian Revolution was an explosion of democracy and creativity - and...
2017-02-2838 min
Housmans Radical Booksellers' PodcastAlex Nunns, author of "The Candidate" - Q&AKindly recorded for us by our wonderful volunteer and sound-wizard James Davies. Talk recorded at The Kings Arms Pub, 55 The Grove, Ealing, London W5 5DX, in partnership with Ealing Labour for Corbyn.
In September 2015 an earthquake shook the foundations of British politics. Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong and uncompromising socialist, was elected to head the Labour Party. Corbyn didn’t just win the leadership contest, he trounced his opponents. The establishment was aghast. The official opposition now had as its leader a man with a plan, according to the conservative Daily Telegraph, “to turn Britain into Zimbabwe.”
How this remarkable twist...
2017-01-2853 min
Housmans Radical Booksellers' Podcast‘The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work’ with David FraynePaid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today’s work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate.
In this thought-provoking book, David Frayne questions the central place of work in mainstream political visions of the future, laying bare the ways in which economic demands colonise our lives and priorities. Drawing on his original research into the lives of people wh...
2017-01-2835 minHousmans Radical Booksellers' PodcastAlex Nunns, author of "The Candidate" - main talkKindly recorded for us by our wonderful volunteer and sound-wizard James Davies. Talk recorded at The Kings Arms Pub, 55 The Grove, Ealing, London W5 5DX, in partnership with Ealing Labour for Corbyn.
In September 2015 an earthquake shook the foundations of British politics. Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong and uncompromising socialist, was elected to head the Labour Party. Corbyn didn’t just win the leadership contest, he trounced his opponents. The establishment was aghast. The official opposition now had as its leader a man with a plan, according to the conservative Daily Telegraph, “to turn Britain into Zimbabwe.”
How this remarkable twist...
2017-01-2829 min
Housmans Radical Booksellers' Podcast‘How to dismantle the NHS in 10 easy steps’ with Dr Youssef El-GingihyTower Hamlets GP Youssef El-Gingihy discusses the NHS and explains how it has been gradually been converted into a market-based healthcare system over the past 30 years.
The NHS is the closest thing we have to a collective heart, so naturally when we hear of it being ‘privatised’ and ‘dismantled’ this evokes a negative response. It instinctively makes sense - we have a Tory government after all and they seem to quite like privatising stuff.
However, it’s a bit confusing because we still appear to get free healthcare at the point of service. Who cares if it’s being taken over b...
2016-09-3037 min
Housmans Radical Booksellers' PodcastJeremy Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical PoliticsHousmans welcomes back writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour who will be presenting his new book Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso).
With a landslide in the first round, Jeremy Corbyn, an unassuming antiwar socialist, crushed the opposition, dealing a huge blow to the Blairite opposition. For the first time in decades, socialism is back on the agenda—and for the first time in Labour’s history, it defines the leadership.
This book tells the story of how Corbyn’s rise was made possible by the long decline of Labour and a deep crisis in British democracy. It survey...
2016-09-2641 min
Camden Community RadioWhat's On In Camden - 28th NovemberReggae soul pop master Natty plays at Barfly this week; the Dickens Museum is always a great place to go as Christmas approaches and this week there’s a reading group you can go along to. On the same evening, Housman’s the radical bookshop, is celebrating its 70th birthday. Ben Hur is on at the Tricycle to get you in the Christmas spirit. Camden New Journal are organising Christmas hampers. Listen out for a BBC radio 4 program, Ancient Ways, which Danielle Manning of CCRadio helped on!
Music from: Steel City Bigfoot
Package by: Catherine Ann, Jose...
2015-11-2905 min
Getting Better AcquaintedGBA 214 Paul WilliamsIn GBA 214 we get better acquainted with Paul. He talks about drawing portraits for Arts Emergency, his experience of bipolar, how he relates to the idea of being an artist, growing up in Stafford and lots more.
Paul plugs:
Arts Emergency: http://www.arts-emergency.org/
@PaulWilliamsArt: https://twitter.com/paulwilliamsart
I plug:
GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/
http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/
We mention:
Avatars: http://www.arts-emergency.org/aobn-portraits-paul-williams/
Black Mirror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)
Stephen Fry - Secret Life of a Manic Depressive...
2015-06-241h 12Getting Better AcquaintedGBA 214 Paul WilliamsIn GBA 214 we get better acquainted with Paul. He talks about drawing portraits for Arts Emergency, his experience of bipolar, how he relates to the idea of being an artist, growing up in Stafford and lots more.
Paul plugs:
Arts Emergency: http://www.arts-emergency.org/
@PaulWilliamsArt: https://twitter.com/paulwilliamsart
I plug:
GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/
http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/
We mention:
Avatars: http://www.arts-emergency.org/aobn-portraits-paul-williams/
Black Mirror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)
Stephen Fry - Secret Life of a Manic Depressive...
2015-06-241h 12Visual ArtistsGBA 214 Paul WilliamsIn GBA 214 we get better acquainted with Paul. He talks about drawing portraits for Arts Emergency, his experience of bipolar, how he relates to the idea of being an artist, growing up in Stafford and lots more.
Paul plugs:
Arts Emergency: http://www.arts-emergency.org/
@PaulWilliamsArt: https://twitter.com/paulwilliamsart
I plug:
GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/
http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/
We mention:
Avatars: http://www.arts-emergency.org/aobn-portraits-paul-williams/
Black Mirror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)
Stephen Fry - Secret Life of a Manic Depressive...
2015-06-241h 12Camden Community RadioWhat's On In Camden - January 10th 2015There’s plenty to chose from at the start of the new year. Michael Boyd’s hotly anticipated production of Orfeo is opening at the Roundhouse this week. Also at the Roundhouse classes for anyone aged 11-25 are starting back up, including a chance to learn Street Circus skills. At the Camden Arts Centre you can learn how to build an otter’s den with artist Ruth Ewan. Alternatively, you can visit a book launch at Housmans radical bookshop or drop by an exciting new art installation opening at the WAC building.
Ready by: Joseph Hughes, Muhammad Hakim
2015-01-1104 minCamden Community RadioWhat's on 12th January 2014Cat Forward exhibits ‘Everyday’ at Free Space Gallery in Bartholmew Road, NW5; the Working Men’s College Lecture series continues on Tuesday with ‘Two Windows: Connections between art in renaissance Europe and art in traditional Islamic societies’; On Wednesday, Union Chapel celebrates the restoration on its Henry Willis pipe organ with a free recital; Cecil Sharp House hosts young folk awards and Housman’s Booksale starts this week.
Read by: Denise O’Connor, Marian Larragy, Sarah O’Brien and Marita Hutson
Editing: Sarah O’Brien
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Working Men's College ::
Organ recital at Union Chapel ::
Cecil...
2014-01-1105 minCamden Community RadioWhats on in Camden 25th March - 7th April, 2013If you are a local, you can lunch for free at Maiden Lane Community Centre on Sat 30th March, 1pm. To book, call 020 7267 9586; You can debate the environment and the economy at Housmans; Listen to Radio Blighty at the Etcetera or witness Daisy Pull it Off at the Gatehouse; There is poetry at Buck Street, Med & Mid East Music at the Forge or Jazz at Union Chapel Bar and an Urban Spring Festival with the London Wildlife Trust at Camley Street Natural Park.
Read by: DJ Rudeboy P.Tosh, Mainga Bhimi & Marian Larragy
Research by: Mainga...
2013-03-2306 minDissident Island RadioDissident Island Radio November 6th 2009# Celebrations of Housmans 50th birthday! We had some folk in live – who are involved with the running of Housmans – for some beer and cake, and we also heard the final feature on Housmans history;
# Words from two members of Anarchists Against the Wall about tearing down fences and fighting against the odds;
# More words on the recent Didcott Action;
# A digest of the audio recorded from the recent London Anarchist Bookfair 2009;
# We had a chat with some folks helping to organise the invert your gender event;
# Freddy the Frog clowned it up on the...
2009-11-0700 minDissident Island RadioDissident Island Radio 16 October 2009On this show:
* Sean Kirtley, recently released from prison after a successful appeal against a guilty verdict, reflects on jail and his plans for the future
* people involved in the campaign to Stop Vendata, a UK mining firm, from destroying holy land;
* the Carrot Workers’ Collective, discussing implications of the biggest trend in capitalist cost-externalising – the unpaid internship;
* a member of the Rampart Collective with the latest news on the eviction of the autonomous social centre we all know and love;
* Part II of the three part interview with Albert from Housmans with some...
2009-10-1800 minDissident Island RadioDissident Island Radio - October 2nd 2009For this show we had the Donal from the Worker’s Solidarity Movement (WSM) about the Lisbon Referendum – and some discussion on anarchists engagement in electoral politics. There was the first part of Chickpea’s discussion with Albert from Housmans Bookstore, one of the UK’s longest running radical book sellers, which will be having a 50th birthday party in November 2009.
People from the Camp for Climate Action talked to us about the upcoming Great Climate Swoop in Ratcliffe. There was the usual bollocks – chat, news announcements – and some extra love for one of the islanders heading...
2009-10-0600 minDissident Island RadioDissident Island Radio 02 October 2009For this show we heard from the Worker’s Solidarity Movement (WSM) about the Lisbon Referendum – and some discussion on anarchist’s engagement in electoral politics. Chickpea spoke with Albert at Housmans Bookstore, one of the UK’s longest running radical book sellers, which will celebrates its 50th birthday party in November
Someone from the Camp for Climate Action spoke to us about the upcoming Great Climate Swoop. There was also the usual bollocks – chat, news announcements – and some extra love for one of the islanders heading off on a big adventure;
On the wheels...
2009-10-0300 min