London Bookshop Map

Dreaming of libraries, hoping for bookshops. The London Bookshop Map promotes independent bookshops and distributes new work by artists, writers and poets.

[London Bookshop Map @LondonBookshopM]

Chilling to hear reports that books affirming trans identities have been removed from the new @young_vam bookshop by @TristramHuntVA … I had planned to visit on Sat but instead will be ordering this book from @gaystheword! Solidarity & ❤️to all opposing this in the museum

[Rowan Ellis (updates only) @HeyRowanEllis]

A few people have asked where they can get "Here and Queer" 💙

It should be available at most book stores - but I'd recommend buying from a queer indie bookshop like @gaystheword

You can shop with them online here: https://t.co/LnS0YhS2zq

[postpandemicchildcare @postpandemicch1]

Love @TheCommonPress bookshop in Bethnal Green and love to see our @ontherecordcic Childcare Histories map flyers here! Check both out! https://t.co/gZowjkC7VH

[Artists for Palestine UK @Art4PalestineUK]

Tate, Cut Your Ties With Genocidal Israel

Ahead of this year’s Turner Prize awards ceremony on Tuesday, more than 1200+ artists call on Tate’s leadership to cut ties with organisations that are deeply complicit with the Israeli state.
https://t.co/KTNx7PErGZ

[Charra “waaaaasp” Tea @TeaCharra]

with the disgusting actions of #waterstones I thought I’d share my fave local LGBTQIA+ bookshop in Manchester! @QueerLitUK 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Support independent bookstores and most importantly TRANS RIGHTS ❤️

[postpandemicchildcare @postpandemicch1]

Just left some Public Early Years leaflets at the amazing @HousmansBooks in Kings Cross after a great meet up with some of the Hackney Flashers and @growyourown_ohp who are based upstairs thru Oral History project @ontherecordcic ❤️🚩 ❤️ @VersoBooks

[PACBI - BDS movement @PACBI]

BREAKING: more than 4,000 artists are calling for genocidal Israel to be excluded from the Venice Biennale, one of the world's biggest and most prestigious arts exhibitions.

https://t.co/fexIUzhSCw

#labiennaledivenezia
#venicebiennale

[Gavin @alivesince1968]

The complicit investments in Israel by @QMUL are reported by @PSCupdates to be £1,117,069. Trashing freedom of trade union activity in the name of freedom of speech is a naked attempt to justify financial complicity with genocide.

Solidarity with @qm_ucu

[PCS V&A Branch @VandPcs]

Totally egregious. Union offices contain sensitive protected data on their membership which employers are legally prevented from accessing or viewing. They cannot break in because they don't like the decor. Shame on @QMUL

[Book Works @BooksWork]

After the destruction of two publishing houses in the West Bank last week, now this - the publishing house and library Al-Kalima in Gaza burnt to ashes. Solidarity with Palestinian publishers and writers #CeasefireNOW

[Queen Mary UCU @qm_ucu]

Today (Tuesday 20th February) management ordered @QMUL security to break into the Queen Mary UCU office behind the Queens Building in order to remove posters expressing solidarity with Palestine.

[Sabrin Hasbun @HasbunSabrin]

My only response to this is:

In order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent

By Marwan Makhoul

[Ⓣⓐⓘ Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓘ @Tai_Shani]

I posted this on instagram because that’s a more artworld space for me

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Journalist Mohammad Al-Jaja has just been murdered, with family, by Israeli missiles destroying their home in Gaza City.

The local journalists are paying with their lives to bring us the truth of the war crimes of Gaza.

In their memory keep campaigning for peace.

[London Bookshop Map @LondonBookshopM]

New experimental art writing!: Velazquez as (really very) early supporter of the suffragettes… radically sex positive and concerned with displaying and celebrating all forms of care work (note the baby in fancy dress)

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

Vandalism plain & simple.
How dare these criminals storm our National Gallery & use hammers to smash a painting depicting the Suffragette movement pretending to be raising concerns about the environment - call them out for what they are - vandals & hooligans.

[London Bookshop Map @LondonBookshopM]

‘The children are always ours. The children are ALWAYS ours’
visited amazing Lighthouse Bookshop in the darkness this evening @Lighthousebks #CeasefireForGaza

[Book Works @BooksWork]

Book Works Publishing join the global strike for Palestine, Friday, 20 Oct. Together with artists and other organisations, we will be closed and use this time to learn and reflect together in order to work for a better future for everyone. We encourage you to join in solidarity.

[Artists for Palestine UK @Art4PalestineUK]

Uplift Palestinian voices!
They will not be silenced and we will not fall silent. 🇵🇸

[Artists for Palestine UK @Art4PalestineUK]

Authors Ta-Nehisi Coates, China Mieville, Kamila Shamsie, Eileen Myles, Richard Ford and many, many others call for the international community to commit to ending the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and a just political solution in Palestine ✊🏾
https://t.co/kVS3KBWAer

[Rowan Ellis (updates only) @HeyRowanEllis]

@TristramHuntVA @young_vam A disappointing, but not surprising, update from the V&A union @VandPcs...
https://t.co/RCxVIy70jk

[London Bookshop Map @LondonBookshopM]

Much enjoyed conversation and presentations at the second Bookselling Research Network @BooksellingRes1 conference at Reading earlier this week - belated thanks everyone! ❤️