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23 Jul 14

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19 Mar 14

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4 Mar 14

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18 Feb 14

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11 Feb 14

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8 Feb 14

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9 Oct 13

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25 Sep 13

BOOK TALK - ‘This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City’ with John Rogers

21 Sep 13

BOOK TALK - ‘Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police’ with Rob Evans

18 Sep 13

BOOK TALK - ‘Whiteness Made Simple: Stepping into the Grey Zone’ with Lez Henry

14 Sep 13

BOOK TALK - ‘Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era’ with J.D. Taylor and Mark Fisher

11 Sep 13

Book Launch - ‘Revolution and Alienation in Victorian London’ with Clive Bloom

28 Aug 13

Book Launch - ‘Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital' with Lloyd Bradley

21 Aug 13

‘The ANC's London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid’ with Ken Keable and other recruits

7 Aug 13

Book Talk - ‘London’s Industrial Heritage’ with Geoff Marshall

17 Jul 13

Book Talk - ‘The History of Working Men’s Clubs: London and Beyond’ with Ruth Cherrington

10 Jul 13

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3 Jul 13

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19 Jun 13

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13 Jun 13

‘Remembering Clara Zetkin’ with guests from the Socialist History Society

12 Jun 13

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8 Jun 13

Book Talk - ‘Introducing Slavoj Žižek’ with Christopher Kul-Want

29 May 13

‘Frack Off London’

25 May 13

London Radical Bookfair

11 May 13

‘The History of Anarchist Economics’ with Chris Spannos

8 May 13

Book Talk - ‘Arthur Machen and the Art of Wandering’ with Merlin Coverley

24 Apr 13

Book Launch - ‘London Fictions’ with Andrew Whitehead, Sarah Wise and Jon Day

17 Apr 13

Book Talk - Iain Sinclair on Arthur Machen

10 Apr 13

Book Talk - ‘The Revolution of Everyday Life’ with Donald Nicholson Smith

29 Mar 13

Debate/Book event ‘Is green growth possible and do we really need it?’ debate with Pete Dickenson an

27 Mar 13

‘Everything you ever wanted to know about Anarchism, but were afraid to ask’ with Iain McKay

20 Mar 13

Talk ‘Walking and Art’ with Hannah Hull

13 Mar 13

‘From Gay Authors' Workshop to Paradise Press’

27 Feb 13

Poetry Reading ‘Street Music: Poems’ with Mike Marqusee

12 Dec 12

Book Event ‘Public Service on the Brink’ with Mark Serwotka and David Wiggins

5 Dec 12

Book Event ‘Savage Messiah’ with Laura Oldfield Ford

1 Dec 12

Talk 'Play as Protest in Modern Art' with Hannah Hull

28 Nov 12

Book Event ‘1839: The Chartist Insurrection’ with Chris Ford

24 Nov 12

‘Book Event The Legacy of Allen Ginsberg’ with Steve Finbow

17 Nov 12

Book Event ‘Freedom Through Football: The Story of the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls' with Will Simpso

14 Nov 12

Book Event ‘Fortress Europe' with Matt Carr and Liz Fekete

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