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Home | Friday 13th November 2009 | Issue 699

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BIG PEACE UP

Yes, it is SchNEWS’s 15th birthday next week, as well as issue 700. Mighty landmarks for pushers of radical literature you might think, but still greatly in the shadows of London’s premier radical bookshop, Housmans, which marks 50 years operating as a radical bookshop from the same building this week.

The King’s Cross hang out, innocently named Peace House, stock the widest range of ‘out there’ books, zines and pamphlets in the country (and now all available for purchase online!) and have always acted as a support hub for local like-minded communities – which certainly must have been many and varied given the sweeping cultural fashion shifts since 1959.

Five decades of political subversives, anarchists and pacifists continually in the same building... we can only imagine the state of the carpet.

To celebrate their miraculous longevity they are having a big bash with poetry, comedy and music - from protest folk to very 21st century-style DJ’s spinnin’ til the wee hours on November 14th, 3pm-2am at The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, King’s Cross, London N1 OAX.

For line up and info see www.housmans.com/peacehouse.php

Keywords: bookshops, london, radical media


 

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