History is made at night

The flu epidemic of 1918-19 killed millions of people around the world, including over 200,000 in the UK. As with the Covid-19 pandemic the...

'Flappers as Anarchists: delegates who do not look as though they used bombs' 'Anarchists are in conference at Newcastle-on...

One of the most exciting sites I have come across recently is the Modernist Journals Project , a joint project of Brown University and the ...

'These were bright new monied times in which society people were encouraged to enjoy the primitive theatrics of those who appeared to be...

'The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancin...

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964), lived to see many May Days as a key figure in the US workers movement for more than 50 years. In 1939, ...

London Sound Survey is an ambitious and 'growing collection of Creative Commons-licensed sound recordings of places, events and wildlif...

THE VOICE: ...You will be known during your fifteen years as a ragtime kid, a flapper, a jazz baby, and a baby vamp. You will dance new dan...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's story May Day, first published in 1920, is an account of a drunken night in New York in May 1919. Drunk socialites...

Anita Berber (1899-1928) was a dancer in pre-Nazi Germany, famous/notorious for a life of bisexuality, drugs and semi-naked performance. Wit...

The credit crunch clearly hasn't hit the world of super-rich art collecting - last week Danseuse (above), a 1915 painting by the Futuri...

I have posted here before on the French writer Colette (1873-1954). Her novel The Vagabond, first published in 1911, is a fictionalised acc...

The Daily Express has been a fount of right wing bile for many years. Here's a classic example of its historic racism, a leading article...