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28 August, 2010 — Housmans

NEWS
1. Peace Diary 2011
2. Volunteer and Internship Opportunities

EVENTS
3. ‘Violent London’ with Clive Bloom
4. ‘Roughler’s London’ with Ray Roughler-Jones
5. ‘Walking the Siege of Sidney Street’ with Clive Bloom
6. ‘Resisting the cuts – past and present’ with Janine Booth and Jon Rogers
7. Future Events

NEWS

1. Peace Diary 2011

Every year we publish the world renowned Housmans Peace Diary. As ever, this 58th edition includes a World Peace Directory listing almost 2,000 national and international peace, environment and human rights organisations in 150 countries.

This year’s special pre-publication offer: if your order and payment is received by Housmans before the end of September 2010, you will receive a free White Peace Poppy with each Diary ordered. Please visit http://www.housmans.com/diary.php for more information, and to place your order.

2. Volunteer and Internship Opportunities

Promotions Internship at Housmans

Housmans is working hard to increase awareness of the way it’s an integral part of the political and cultural life of London, and part of this process is letting people know we are here. This requires a variety of promotional work. Housmans is looking for someone with an interest in learning the promotional ropes to join the staff as an intern on a day-a-week basis for a minimum of three months. It will be great opportunity to learn and practise pretty much every promotional technique going. If you’re interested please contact Nik at nik@housmans.com.

General Housmans Volunteer (In-Store / Events / Bookstalls)

Housmans is also looking for general volunteers to help out in the shop. If you’re passionate about books, or looking for some work experience, then this could be the option for you. Volunteering for Housmans could take the form of either a day a week in the shop, essentially helping out with the day-to-day running, or if that’s too much of a time commitment you could always sign up to help out at our in-store events. This second option would mean coming along for one or more of our events a month, and helping by setting up and staffing the till – a fun option as you also get to hear the event taking place. We also need one-off help with outside bookstalls and other special occasions. Again, Housmans would ask that you commit for a minimum of three months. For more information on what’s involved please contact nik@housmans.com.

EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER
Full listings information can be found at http://www.housmans.com/events.php

3. ‘Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts’ with Clive Bloom
Saturday 4th September, 5pm

Clive Bloom charts the story of London through centuries of popular insurrection and protest. It is a story of political activism expressed in street fighting and slum warfare, in assassination and bombing. Clive will and be launching his new updated version of ‘Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts’ published by Palgrave Macmillan.

4. ‘Roughler’s London’ with Ray Roughler-Jones
Wednesday 8th September, 7pm

Very few people have seen life from as many angles as Ray Roughler-Jones. After a regular upbringing in a working-class area of Swansea, Ray veered off the rails into a life of shoplifting and small-time drug dealing fuelled by alcohol and driven by gambling. He settled in Ladbroke Grove and became a key figure in the burgeoning music and art scene emerging from the boho pubs around Notting Hill. He also launched The ‘Roughler’ magazine from the Warwick pub in Portobello Road. Ray has put it all down in his new autobiography, ‘Drowning on Dry Land’. Join Ray at Housmans to hear some great anecdotes about his escapades, and for an insight into a side of London living painstakingly airbrushed out of Richard Curtis’s version of Notting Hill.

5. ‘Walking the Siege of Sidney Street’ with Clive Bloom
Sunday 12th September,
Please email nik@housmans.com to book a place and to receive info on start time and meet up point

The Siege of Sidney Street, popularly known as the ‘Battle of Stepney’, was a notorious gunfight in London’s East End in 1911. It ended with the deaths of two members of a politically-motivated gang of burglars supposedly led by Peter Piatkow, a.k.a. Peter the Painter, and sparked a major political row over the involvement of the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.

Join Clive Bloom, author of ‘Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts’, as he retells this captivating tale at the scene of the action. The walk is free, but spaces are limited: please email nik@housmans.com to book a place and to receive information on the start time and meet up point.

6. ‘Resisting the cuts – past and present’ with Janine Booth and Jon Rogers
Saturday 25th September, 5pm

In the aftermath of the First World War, thirty Labour councillors went to prison rather than accepting inequitable taxes. With unemployment rising in 1921 in Bow, Limehouse, Millwall and Old Ford, Poplar Borough Council could not help provide relief drawing only on the limited wealth of one poor London borough. Poplar councillors, including future labour leader George Lansbury, demanded that rates from richer areas should help. Rich Kensington had a hugely greater rateable value and fewer jobless people; it could afford to pay more. So Poplar refused to pay over rates to the London County Council, and thus began the Poplar Revolt, which led to the imprisonment of thirty rebel councillors.

Janine Booth’s book ‘Guilty and Proud of It!’ tells the story of this important moment in Labour history, which resonates so strongly in the current climate of cuts on a scale not yet truly unimaginable. Janine will be joined by Jon Rogers of UNISON, a committed trade unionist and Labour party member, who will be drawing parallels from the Poplar incident and discussing the possible responses of the organised Left to the governments cuts agenda.

7. Future Events
For information on events forthcoming in 2010 please visit http://www.housmans.com/events.php

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