History is made at night

'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...

'Cinzia says...' at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art is a retrospective of the work of Italian fashion designer and artist Cin...

2000 AD magazine celebrates becoming a teenager on its 13th anniversary, February 1990, with a look straight out of Whirl Y Gig or any numbe...

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...

Thanks to Google news and other archive searches it is possible to date reasonably accurately when words came to be widely used, at least...

Somebody else can write the cultural history of how the punk look was gradually domesticated in mainstream hairdressing during the 1980s -...