While many radical bookshops across the UK fold under the increasing costs of running a small business, Housmans in Peace House has remained a community pillar for readers and activists alike.
It’s a passion that brought him to Books for Cooks in Notting Hill, spending three decades creating a unique haven for cookbook enthusiasts.
An Oxford bookshop reckons work against play, asserting it must have both to maintain its community.
An unfamiliar town, a startling discovery ‒ 30 years since riots took over its streets ‒ what was once an infamous BNP party headquarters is now a place of multicultural peace.
A postcard from the mecca of black literature
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How has the UK’s first independent Black publishing house and bookshop been influential to the Black community?
In the heart of London since the 17th century, Cecil Court, also the temporary home of Mozart, is the West End’s most distinctive shopping street with independent booksellers.