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A project which archives and documents the many lost causes and small movements of our collective existence. The material covered will be pamphlets, books, magazines, badges, photographs and posters. Areas archived will include: the situs, underground newspapers, fanzines, the sixties, class war, solidarity, anarchy, left communism, conscientious objection, Maoism in England, rock against racism, Peter Kennard, Clifford Harper, deviant trotskyism, Walter Benjamin, radical feminism, squatting, Frank Zappa, lesbian separatism and the 1970s mens movement and many others.Music
Regular events, parties and an annual conference in association the with South Place Ethical Society at Conway Hall. The first Public Reading Rooms conference was the May 68 event on May 10th 2008.Movies
In alliance with the Rochester Film Salon we will show a series of interesting and unusual films with a discussion element.Television
Books
Together with PM Press from the States we will publish short runs of books magazines and posters. Our first publication will be the third issue of Icteric - a political/art/anti-art journal whose first two issues were published in the mid 1960s.Heroes
Amanda Sebestyen / Explorer : Nick Rochford / Compendium : Alan Woodward / Workers Council Socialist : Peter Kennard / Artist : Dave Chapple / Chair National Shop Stewards Network : Pete Green / Economist : Anna Hunt / Artist : Craig Liddle / Father : Ron Heisler / Polymath : Paul Stott / Class War : Nick Heath / Veteran anarchist : John Rudge / Credit cruncher : Esther Leslie / Benjaminite : Barry Buitekant / Councillor : Bill Hetherington / Conscientious Objector : Ben Watson / Zappatist : Keith Flett / sec London socialist historians : Ron Hunt / Icteric : Andrew Whitehead / Archivist : John Plant / Revolutionary History : Chris Bertoud / Spoon Unit : Marg Nicol / Photographer : Sara Brown / Psychotherapist : Andy Meinke / Statistician : Malcolm Hopkins / Tumbling Man : Leila Kassir / Librarian : John McAllister / Accountant : Andrew Burgin / Catastrophist : Ian Gollan / Networker
Latest Blog Entries
- Jul 31, 2009 10:08 AM Latest events
- Jul 31, 2009 10:04 AM Housmans online bookshop launched! Over 500,000 titles available...
- Jul 14, 2009 8:36 AM New London Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group
- Jul 1, 2009 10:41 PM London Writing
- Jul 1, 2009 10:14 AM Volunteering at Housmans
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About me:
I inhabit the mysterious depths under Housmans Booksellers at:5 Caledonian Road
Kings Cross
Who I'd like to meet:
Fellow explorers, polymaths, anarchists, socialists, conscientious objectors, zappatists, historians, archivists, revolutionaries, spoon units, artists, librarians, catastrophists and networkersMembership is a mere tenner per year or a cool hundred per lifetime! Contact PRR@andrewburgin.com for more info.
check out 1968 and all that
and Housmans bookshop - radical books*ll*rs since 1945
We are developing an online catalogue of our collection of forgotten pamphlets and seminal books. To see all items in the catalogue click Search without entering any search term:
http://reading.nfshost.com/openbiblio/opac/
http://reading.nfshost.com/openbiblio/opac/
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- Status: Swinger
- Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Check out this PHOTONIC review on UKMU... 9.5/10...
PHOTONIC rock metal power-chord psychedelic beats party
BULL AND GATE
389 Kentish Town Road
London, NW5 2TJ
doors 8pm, Photonic on stage 9pm
fiver on the door with flyer
Saturday 15th August 2009
http://www.myspace.com/photonicmusic
Photonic , playing live at The Fiddlers Elbow , Camden , London, Thursday 6th August 2009, a rock metal power-chord psychedelic beats party.
PHOTONIC rock metal power-chord psychedelic beats party
Spice of Life, Soho
6 Moor Street, Cambridge Circus, London W1
8pm, £5 on the door
Saturday 1st August 2009
http://www.myspace.com/photonicmusic
In a room, not far from your own... Flixation closes their 2008 account. Join us:
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It was great to meet everybody at the PRR showing of London Nobody Knows and the Savage Messiah launch upstairs in Housmans.
Events this week:
- Saturday 25th : 3pm : The London Nobody Knows - Film followed by discussion (5 Caledonian Road)
- Saturday 25th : 7pm : Savage Messiah - zine launch (5 Caledonian Road)
For full details
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