History is made at night

Not sure how many folk music revivals we have had now, of course it's never really gone away but I am enjoying the latest queer friendly...

An interview with folk singers Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger from 1978, published in the socialist  newspaper Militant (28/7/1978) after the ...

As Japan industrialised in the late 19th and early 20th century large numbers of young women were employed in textile mills, often living in...

When Pete Seeger (1919-2014) was born the First World had only just finished. I don't feel so much sad that he has died this week almos...

A while ago, I did a post on songs about people being killed by the police (Blair Peach, Liddle Towers etc.) At tonight's Radio 2 Folk ...

The Turner Prize 2010 exhibition is now open at Tate Britain, with at least three of the four short-listed artists having strong musical con...

A while ago I went to a talk by the great radical historian Peter Linebaugh on 'The Invisibility of the Commons' . In the course of ...

The majority of folk musicians I have met have tended to be some kind of lefty/liberal/anarcho/counter-cultural type, and indeed the same go...

Following my earlier post about the 25th anniversary of the Miners Strike , here's some recollections of being a strike supporter in Ken...

War in Gaza, and (less publicised) war in Sri Lanka , war in the Democratic Republic of Congo , not to mention Afghanistan and Iraq. It'...

Away this week from my usual London habitat, I have instead been (re)visiting the ‘ancestral homeland’ of the Isle of Islay in the Hebrides....

In late 19th century and early 20th century Japan, thousands of young women workers were recruited from villlages to work in the cotton and ...