History is made at night

An account of violence against women in the vicinity of feminist discos 'in the South London area'  in 1977. Slightly frustrating fo...

'the showy disco style caught on and is now seen in dance halls and at parties. The long dress, inconvenient for modern dances, has give...

UK Disco Chart, Record Business, 25 February 1980 . Interesting to see BPM displayed, 'Spacer' by Sheila & B Devotion one of th...

From Newcastle Journal, 1 December 1979: 'Discos for bored teenagers have been stopped after a police raid on a Wearside club. Committee...

Lunch magazine ran from 1971 to 1973, starting out as a newsletter put out by Campaign for Homosexual Equality members in London and expandi...

I was pretty excited to hear that Tim Lawrence  and Jeremy Gilbert have started a new podcast, Love is the Message . Tim is the great cultur...

Once upon a time I was Neil Disconaut, with my partner Juleigh Disconaut we constituted the Disconaut node of the Association of Autonomous ...

From the Face magazine, February 1983, as part of an overview of the soundtrack to London nightlife at that point, an interview with the la...

No I don't mean the racist idiots of the English Defence League and the British National Party... they are yesterday's news. I refer...

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

From the 1978 NME Guide to Rock & Roll London , the section on Disco compiled by LeRoy Z. Jefferson, with listings and reflections on t...

Luc Sante is the 23rd person to complete the Dancing Questionnaire. Luc has written extensively on New York cultural history, and much mor...

247TopCat has done a great service to social and cultural history by putting some old 1980s photos on youtube, including this series take...

The Trammps' disco classic The Night the Lights Went Out (1977) commemorates an actual historical event in that year - the New York bla...

The Acid House moment of the late 1980s, like the Punk moment a decade or so previously, is often presented as a kind of Year Zero where som...