Monthly book club hosted by TUFF
18 November 2026, 7–9 PM
@houseofannetta ground floor, left-hand room
£3 suggested donation (contribution to the running of the house)
Aftermath (5) marks 39 years since the Great Storm of 1987, which occurred overnight on 15–16 October 1987. The storm felled 15 million trees, with hurricane-force winds gusting up to 120mph. Many southeastern woodlands lost up to 95% of their trees, fundamentally altering landscapes and altering woodland management in southern England to this day.
To mark the anniversary, we'll gather to read and discuss Chapter 1 of Christopher D. Stone's Should Trees Have Standing? (1972). A landmark text in environmental law, Stone asks whether natural entities, including trees, forests and ecosystems, should be recognised as having legal rights and the capacity to be represented in court. Together, we'll consider our cultural relationships to trees and forests at a time of increasing tree stress and woodland uncertainty, exploring these questions through the lens of rights-of-nature movements and legal proposals.
*Aftermath is a monthly book club held at House of Annetta exploring what happens after catastrophes - of industry, colony, extraction, eruption, storms and economic breakdowns. Every session will be held on the anniversary of a disaster or breakdown - through books, essays and shared discussion, the group will trace what lingers, shifts or emerges in the shadow of disaster. Readings will move across fiction, theory, history and spatial practice, opening conversations around ecology, labour, landscape, infrastructure and repair. The bibliography will evolve through conversation and invited guests, and will work towards producing a collective publication, book or exhibition that sits outside of institutional frameworks.
Join us to read, listen and/or discuss!
Please get in touch if you have any specific accessibility needs for either the session itself or accessing the venue. Unfortunately, House of Annetta is not wheelchair accessible - see here for their guidance: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/oXP0LSfuxq8-o+4iQ9lakB4oJrVKtjyUODLupCKBaUI/
Poster by Sam Rowe