History is made at night

Interesting article from Peace News, 20 December 1963 in which Richard Mabey writes of his visit to the Cavern Club in Liverpool and reflect...

 The murky story of American “psychological operations” in the Vietnam war features many strange episodes. As told in ‘If Then: How One Data...

The BBC series 'Ridley Road' (2021) is a fictional drama which draws on real historical events - the activities of Colin Jordan'...

'I'm your man: the life of Leonard Cohen' (2012) is an excellent biography of everybody's favourite Jewish-Buddhist-Canadian...

Here's an account of  a short-lived radical radio intervention in North London. The Islington pirate radio station broadcast on 230 met...

Another example of 1960s 'rave' - an advert for an 'All Nite Mod Rave' on 18 July 1964 in Bradford, at the Coffin club in I...

Previously we discussed how the word Discotheque, coined in France by the 1940s, seems to have entered the English language in the early 19...

Thanks to Google news and other archive searches it is possible to date reasonably accurately when words came to be widely used, at least...

Returning to the historic usages of the term 'rave', here's some examples from the1960s. At the 'Shoreline Club' i...

Finally got round to watching 'Festivals Britannia' a documentary about the history of the British festival scene first broadcast ...

From the 'Black Panther' newspaper, January 17, 1970, adverts for Black Panther Party records. Seize the Time was a collection...

Teenbeat Monthly was one of the wave of 1960s UK magazines published as part of the beat boom (see also Rave magazine ).  A friend found a...

(click on images to enlarge) In January 1980, London-based radical magazine The Leveller tried to come to terms with the mod revival that ha...

I found this CBS inner sleeve in an old record the other day - actually it was Leonard Cohen's Songs from a Room from 1969. It sets out ...

Last week in Iowa, Michele Bachmann launched her bid to become the Republican candidate in the nex US presidential election. On the Tea Part...

The Girl with Green Eyes , starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave, is a 1964 film based on Edna O'Brien's novel The Lonely Girl ...