History is made at night

Playwright and actor Steven Berkoff (b.1937) wrote an autobiography 'Free Association' in 1997. Born in a Jewish family in Stepney ...

The death this week of Gerry Anderson has sparked an outpouring of nostalgia from those brought up on his TV programmes in the 1960s and 197...

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

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

(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...

In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens describes a gathering of the wealthy in pre-revolutionary France: 'But, the comfort was, th...

In the 17th century, the Quakers and other English religious radicals caused a scandal by refusing to take off their hats to their social &#...

Have posted here before on proletarian dandyism , and one day will get around to writing some more about Decadent Action , clean living in d...

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 ...

On was a free magazine put out in the mid-1990s by the people around the Big Chill - the editor was Pete Lawrence. The 1997 'Winter Sols...

The day before the national celebration of the storming of the Bastille in pursuit of liberty, the French government today passed a law bann...

As this post concerns both a South East London story and documents a club scene I wasn't sure whether to post it at my localist Transpon...

Lubna Hussein is one of 13 Sudanese women arrested while listening to music in a Khartoum cafe on July 3: 'Next week I will stand trial...

Look at Life: In Gear is a 1967 news clip from the Rank Organisation offering a quick tour of the fashion boutiques of Kings Rd, Soho and C...

Interesting review by Dylan Jones of Gentlemen Of Bakongo, Daniele Tamagni's book chronicling "a journey with the Sapeurs of the B...

'Police yesterday arrested a number of youths in a raid at Bor Freedom Square where thousands of youth gather to perform their normal Su...

I am hoping to get to the Photographers Gallery (London) next week for an exhibition on 1950s Soho Nights which apparently includes some im...

From Salt Lake Tribune, 12 September 2008: Dirty dancing high school students, consider yourselves warned. Get that "freak on"...

I've posted here before on jazz subcultures under the Nazis , including the Zazous in France and Hamburg anti-fascists . There’s an ...

"there is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, ...