History is made at night

(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...

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

I went to Cafe Oto in Dalston a couple of weeks ago for a reading by two members of Wu Ming, the Italian writing collective responsible fo...

54 by Italian collective author Wu Ming is a novel set in 1954, with a fine plot involving the mafia, secret services, communist ex-partis...

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...

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

A great piece from 1958, I believe from the Daily Mirror - journalist Anne Allen goes on a tour of London jazz clubs to try and understand...