History is made at night
The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters
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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...
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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