History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Sunday, October 05, 2025

Leicester unemployed centre occupation 1987

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Amidst the mass unemployment of the 1980s more than 200 unemployed workers centres were set up around the UK, sponsored by the Trades Union ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Still living with the English Fear: The Mob, Kae Tempest & Roni Size at London Anarchist Bookfair 2025

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The 2025 London anarchist bookfair crossed the river into South London for the first time since it started in the early 1980s and having bee...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Youth CND Rock the Bomb Festival for Peace, Brockwell Park 1983

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My first ever visit to Brixton, where I later lived, was on May 7th 1983 when I came to Brockwell Park  for the Youth CND (Campaign for Nucl...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Protest Behaviour not Protest Songs? Jeremy Deller on free parties

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Aaron Trinder's 'Free Party: a folk history'  is a documentary telling the story - or at least some of the stories - of the 1980...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Marsh House Luton - from punk to Henge

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Luton Henge Festival last month (29 July 2025) marked the opening of  Luton Henge, a landscaped space featuring a circle of eight chalk ston...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Out to the Dancers - Emma Warren and Femi Koleoso

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I really enjoyed 'Out to the Dancers', a conversation between  Emma Warren and Ezra Collective’s Femi Koleoso at the South Bank Cent...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Jordan photos at Colony Room Green

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  Jordan Uncovered is a small exhibition of personal photos of first wave punk icon Jordan (Pamela Rooke, 1955-2022), put together by Andrew...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Palestine solidarity pots and pan protests

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Lewisham protest, 1 August 2025 In the past few weeks many 'Stop Starving Gaza' pots and pans protests called by the Palestine Solid...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

'Youths fight police kill-joys' (1977) - cops at Bob Marley and Delroy Wilson gigs

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'25 police were militarily positioned outside the Rainbow theatre in Finsbury Park, North London, last week. Squads of police were also ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Communist Party nights out in London, 1930s

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From the pages of the Daily Worker, newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, some dances and other social events in the 1930s. Dai...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

London Life 1966: Discotheques, Psychedelic Samantha's and Francoise Hardy at the Savoy

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London Life cover, 31 December 1966 London Life was a mid-1960s what's on magazine that for a little while replaced the Tatler to reflec...
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