History is made at night

From 'The Dancing Times' magazine, a snapshot of social dancing in London during the Second World War by day and night. At the Astor...

17 Beak Street in Soho is at the time of writing a branch of the Flat Iron steak restaurant chain. But for at least 40 years it was home to ...

In 1944 the Nazi occupation of Paris was in its last deadly phase. The RAF was bombing the city's railway stations and the Resistance wa...

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on this day, 19th May 1925. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written by him with Alex Haley, was p...

Reggae producer Winston Riley died this week. Plainly not everybody liked him : 'Winston Riley, an innovative reggae musician and pro...

A facebook found object for my digital collection of old flyers and tickets - this one is for a 1944 New Year's Day Saturday nigh...

Cultural Correspondence (1975-83) was a remarkable US-based radical journal with a particular focus on popular culture. Its entire archi...

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

Today is Hiroshima Day - on August 6th 1945, the first nuclear weapon was dropped on Japan, killing perhaps 70,000 people in an instant, and...

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin works on two levels -above ground the 'Field of Stelae' conveys a sense of sca...

Geraldine Hoff Doyle (pictured) died in Lansing , Michigan on December 26 th at the age of 86. Nearly 70 years ago she was working as a 17 ...

From the chapter on Rhythm in Elias Canetti's Masse und Macht (1960), translated as ' Crowds and Power' : 'Rhythm is ori...

Most of the obituaries to Lena Horne (1917-2010), who died last weekend, mention her involvement in the civil rights movement. But what is ...

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

Posted last week on Marek Edelman and the 1943 resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Surviving this, he later took part in the following year...

Marek Edelman died last week in Poland, a last link with the Jewish fighters who fought against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto. Edelman w...