History is made at night
The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
1976/77 Rock Against Racism gigs
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Some Rock Against Racism gigs and related events from 1976 and 1977 Carol Grimes and the London Boogie Band, Matumbi and Limosine at Royal C...
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Bedroll Bella: Geordie raver
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Bedroll Bella by Sid Waddell (Sphere, 1973) is the story of a feisty, foul mouthed, hard drinking, 'right raver' and proud Geordi...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Ragged Ragtime Girls: Leila Waddell, Aleister Crowley and seven dancing violinists
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I have been enjoying Phil Baker's 'City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley' (Strange Attractor, 2022), which traces hi...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
No dancing - the 1918/19 influenza epidemic
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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...
Thursday, June 11, 2015
'Flappers as Anarchists' - sharp dressed radicals in Newcastle, 1914
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'Flappers as Anarchists: delegates who do not look as though they used bombs' 'Anarchists are in conference at Newcastle-on...
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