History is made at night

In 1936/37 there was a long and bitter miners’ strike in Nottinghamshire centred on Harworth colliery, sparked by the refusal of mine owners...

In 1935 the International Workers' Music Olympiad, an anti-fascist festival, was held at Strasbourg in France close to the German border...

Excellent Dublin newspaper/blog Rabble has an interesting piece on the Public Dance Halls Act 1935 in Ireland, which remains in force to t...

The Workers Film and Photo League  (sometimes just 'The Film and Photo League') was a 1930s organisation associated with the Commun...

The latest news on threatened record shop chain HMV is that administrators Deloitte have announced that 66 of the 220 shops will close whe...

The historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) died yesterday at the age of 95.  There's plenty to criticise in his political judgement  as he...

The centre piece of the 1939 Ideal Home exhibition in London was the Kaleidakon, what sounds like a proto-psychedelic light show. 'On...

'After 1920 women who occasionally wore men's clothing and those who passed as men began to socialize more openly in cafes and night...

At this time of year it is customary to raise a glass to one of Germany's finest music critics: Albrecht (Ali) Höhler (1898-1933). His e...

All I need in this creation Is 3 months work, 9 vacation Tell the boss, any old time The daytime is his, but the nighttime's mine Photo:...

In 1933, the photographer Brassaï (real name Gyula Halász, 1899–1984) published Paris de Nuit (Paris by Night), a remarkable photographic ...

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, ...

Here's an interesting chapter in London dancing history - a dancehall in a groundbreaking health centre in South London. The Pioneer Hea...

Georges Bataille, The Sacred Conspiracy , 1936 'It is time to abandon the world of the civilized and its light. It is too late to want t...

'Dorothy Coonan was one of Busby Berkeley's principal chorus dancers who had performed in such films as Whoopee! (1930) and 42nd Str...

I'm not going to claim that I got any great insights into the local musical/political/social milieus whilst lazing round in the sun in C...

Tina Modotti (1896-1942) is best known as photographer, but her's was one of those lives that joined the dots between different radica...

Benjamin Péret (1899-1959) was active in the Surrealist movement from its formation until his death. Among other things he edited at one sta...

'Queer urban culture was the site of diverse intersecting modes of queerness and "normality," coalescing around their desires ...