Name: How Queer Bookshops Changed the World
Start: 2026-11-25T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-25T15:30:00+00:00

October 2026
The Bookshop with Professor Andrew Pettegree

October 6 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm BST

The Bookshop explores the evolution of bookselling from the cramped collectors' shops frequented by Samuel Pepys to the radical feminist bookshops of the 70s, the rise of monolithic chains and the new world of online selling. Connecting stories and lives that span centuries, countries and continents, The Bookshop brings us into beloved bookshops of today and looks forward […]
November 2026
How Queer Bookshops Changed the World

November 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm GMT

With A. J. West, author of How Queer Bookshops Changed the World (Oneworld, 2026). A.J.West is a Sunday Times bestselling, multi-award-winning historical fiction novelist and historian. Prior to publication he was a breakfast host on BBC television news. He appears regularly on national television and radio programmes discussing literature, history and current affairs. His novel, […]