As an official partner to the ‘1968 and All That’ conference and book fair, and as a fellow traveller in the wider ‘All Power to the Imagination’ series of ’68 events happening across the country, Housmans is hosting a number of talks and book events throughout May to help explore 1968 and its legacies. For more information about Housmans visit their web site or sign up to recieve the monthly newsletter. Housmans has an impressive stock of many of the key texts from the ’68 period, do call into Housmans – your local independent bookshop – for a browse.
3 May. Lou Rowan – Fiction for Justice. Book launch and talk.
7 May. Torriano Poets for Peace. Poetry readings.
9 May. The Official ‘1968 and All That’ launch party.
11 May. Housmans ‘1968 and All That’ after party
13 May. ‘Rebel, Rebel’ with Bibi van der Zee. Book launch.
14 May. Psychogeography with Merlin Coverley.
15 May. ’We will not fight!’ with Will Ellsworth-Jones. Book launch and talk.
17 May. Savage Messiah zine launch.
21 May. Esther Leslie talk on Walter Benjamin.
28 May. Nick Heath on ‘68.
30 May. ’68, ’78, ’88: From Women’s Liberation to Feminism.
31 May. Peace News presents a film screening of ‘Investigation of a Flame: A Documentary Portrait of the Catonsville Nine’.