History is made at night

I am always interested in the social/cultural/musical life of radical scenes, here's a report of a London benefit night for the mid 1970...

The most famous moment of opposition to the Queen's 'Silver Jubilee' in 1977 (to mark 25 years on the throne) was of course the ...

Next up in the Poll Tax Archive,  a leaflet from early 1991 giving advice to people being taken to court by Lambeth Council for non-payment....

'Flappers as Anarchists: delegates who do not look as though they used bombs' 'Anarchists are in conference at Newcastle-on...

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

Sad to hear that Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel High Street was damaged last night in an apparent arson attack. The anarchist centre in An...

The London Anarchist Bookfair was a couple of weeks ago (October 27th to be precise) and to turn up without some printed matter to dissemi...

Grayson Perry's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl' (2007) is his memoir of the period before he became a successful ...

1950s Soho clubs are one of the enduring obsessions of this site, but I didn't realise until recently that there was a specifically an...