- Following 3.1K
- Followers 16.9K
- Engagement 0.66%
- Avg likes 75
- Avg comments 1
About Housmans Bookshop
Housmans Bookshop (@housmans_books) is an eCommerce creator on Instagram, also filed under Personal Goods & General Merchandise Stores. The account has 16,947 followers and 2,050 published posts. Recent posts average 75 likes and 1 comment, an engagement rate of 0.66%.
With 16.9K followers, Housmans Bookshop is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Housmans Bookshop follows 3,117 accounts, so the audience is roughly 5.4 times the size of the list followed. Housmans Bookshop is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Housmans Bookshop under eCommerce, with Personal Goods & General Merchandise Stores as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Housmans Bookshop runs to 17 words. The bio tags #lgbtqia, #feminism, #pacifism and #blackhistory. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Housmans Bookshop dates from December 2025.
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2,050 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Housmans Bookshop, 7 are single images and 3 are carousels. That mix leans toward single images. With 2,050 posts published, Housmans Bookshop's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 8.3 followers for each post published. Housmans Bookshop also keeps 10 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 107 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include housmansbookshop, novel, event, work and it’s. The captions tag #housmansbookshop, #radicalbookselling, #bookstagram, #evameijer and #lucymercer.
We are open on the 24th December until 2pm, and then closed for a winter break all the way until 11am on January 2nd.
We would love to see you before Christmas so do pop in!
Any online orders placed while we're closed will be processed as soon as possible when we reopen x
(Christmas card credit: Banana Meinhoff)
#housmansbookshop #radicalbookselling
🐈 Catherine chose ’s beautiful, elegant memoir The Quiet Ear and ’s short story collection Night of the Living Rez, which she lauds for its ‘melancholy magic’.
🐢 Nik chose ’s Slow Down, which is rapidly becoming a key text for the field of degrowth, as well as Lois Shearing’s anti fascist feminist study Pink-pilled and David Camfield’s Red Flags, a constructively-critical look at ‘actually existing socialism’
🖋️ Al chose ’s stylistically bold and beautifully human novel Nova Scotia House and a reissue of Fanny Howe’s Holy Smoke, who sadly passed this year and who he calls one of the most important writers of our age
🎧 Zosia chose ’s intimate memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me, a tender exploration of family and memory, and the reissue of The Will to Change by bell hooks, which she says is ideal for folks of all genders looking to reflect.
🌿 Kate (that’s me, hi!) chose Authority by, a collection of our generations greatest critic’s witty, intelligent, and incising essays and reviews, and The Feminist Art of Walking by, a fun and heartfelt piece of psychogeography meets art writing meets feminist memoir-ish.
Were any of these your faves of 2025? What great books did we miss? Let us know in the comments so we can pick them up for Christmas break reading.
And as always, all of these books are available for sale on our website or in store! Tomorrow is your last day to order for shipping by Christmas so get in while you can. Happy holidays! 🎄🎄
This year’s Peace Diary opens with an article by ForcesWatch’s very own Emma Sangster, offering insight into militarism & resistance.
Become a ForcesWatch supporter & we'll send you a gifted copy, find the link in our bio.
Eva Meijer and Lucy Mercer, discussing Eva’s newly translated novel SEA NOW - a profound meditation on the relationship between the human and non-human, and a biting satire of government ineptitude in the face of climate change.
Head to to book x
#housmansbookshop #bookstagram #evameijer #lucymercer #seanow
The event is free and starts at 6:30pm - you can RSVP and find more information on our website, - or email
❤️
#housmansbookshop
Her previous book, a Short History of Queer Women, has been a constant customer favourite since it came out so we're so excited to bring her latest work to our audience.
Tickets available via the link in our bio or
As always we are open 10am-6:30pm Saturday, 12-6pm Sunday, and we would like to see you!
It’s raining a bit but not too cold. 🤝
#housmansbookshop #radicalbookselling #bookshop
As explained so clearly, sexual violence is always political — a weapon to destroy an individual and her community. Military rape is not a unique event but a deliberate and systematic strategy that is wielded today against women and men in Palestine, Sudan and Congo.
Saima’s new novel refuses to relegate the victims of this violence to a historical footnote. She relates the women’s experiences with empathy and complexity — their dreams and their desires, their pain and the choices they make to survive.
This year’s Diary is a tribute to, and an inspiration for, campaigners for peace and social justice around the world.
📅 With week-to-view pages, inspiring quotes, and dates for celebration and protest, it’s as practical as it is thought-provoking.
ForcesWatch is proud to share that our own Emma Sangster has written this year’s introductory article, “Resisting the war machine: reflections on militarism, conscientious objection, and building peace”, which explores the current state of militarism and the grassroots movements challenging it in the UK and beyond.
Now on sale from our friends at Housmans Bookshop, a longstanding radical bookshop and hub for peace and social justice activism based in the same building as ForcesWatch.
Start a monthly donation to ForcesWatch and receive a free copy of the diary!! Find the link in our stories or bio!
✨ This wednesday we have a discussion on Ciara Cremin’s exciting work of transgender hauntology, The Spectral Woman. She will be joined by Professor Peter Bloom.
❤️ On friday, anarchist event series Autonomy Now will be hosting Matt York to discuss his revolutionary intersectional anarchist work Love and Revolution.
🤸♀️ On saturday, we welcome Dr. Christine Lehnen to discuss her recent work Remembering Women, a bold reappraisal of patriarchal conceptions of early history.
🎨 Next wednesday, Marc Garrett will be in conversation with fellow artist Cassie Thornton about his memoir on life as a working class artist.
🌸 We end the month the following Monday with an exciting launch for Saima Begum’s novel The First Jasmines, an intimate familial perspective on the revolution that birthed the modern nation of Bangladesh.
Tickets for all these events are available via the link in our bio or at We look forward to seeing you at the shop 📚
Housmans Bookshop's engagement
Housmans Bookshop's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.66%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 152 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 75 to 1, with 75 likes and 1 comment on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
Engagement rate
0.66%
- Avg likes
- 75
- Avg comments
- 1
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 152
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Who is Housmans Bookshop?
Housmans Bookshop (@housmans_books) is an eCommerce creator on Instagram, also filed under Personal Goods & General Merchandise Stores. Housmans Bookshop is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Housmans Bookshop runs to 17 words.
How many followers does Housmans Bookshop have?
Housmans Bookshop has 16,947 followers on Instagram (16.9K). Housmans Bookshop follows 3,117 accounts, so the audience is roughly 5.4 times the size of the list followed. With 2,050 posts published, Housmans Bookshop's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.
What is Housmans Bookshop's engagement rate?
Housmans Bookshop's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.66%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 152 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 75 to 1, with 75 likes and 1 comment on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
What does Housmans Bookshop post about on Instagram?
Flinque files Housmans Bookshop under eCommerce, with Personal Goods & General Merchandise Stores as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Housmans Bookshop, 7 are single images and 3 are carousels. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Housmans Bookshop repeatedly use the words housmansbookshop, novel, event, work and it’s. Housmans Bookshop's captions carry hashtags such as #housmansbookshop, #radicalbookselling and #bookstagram. Housmans Bookshop writes those captions mainly in English. The bio tags #lgbtqia, #feminism, #pacifism and #blackhistory. Housmans Bookshop keeps 10 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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Housmans Bookshop's contact details are not published on Flinque's public profile. The Instagram bio links to 1 external site, and a free Flinque account opens that link. The account is registered as an Instagram business account. Brands with a free Flinque account can shortlist Housmans Bookshop and use Flinque's outreach tools wherever a contact route is on file.
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