History is made at night

 1976 article about Italian radical radio station Radio Citta Futura (Radio Future City) from Red Weekly, paper of the International Marxis...

On Redcross Way SE1 (near to London Bridge station), the site of a paupers' graveyard was discovered during construction of the Jubilee...

Last week I had the opportunity to visit a rarely opened archive in South London. The basement of New Cross Learning (the volunteer-run l...

Interesting short article on mid-1980s London pirate radio and hip-hop: Soul pirate on the air waves By Jaswinder Bancil (South London ...

In April 1974, left leaning military officers overthrew the Portuguese dictatorship and ended its colonial wars in Africa. For the next t...

The state and media's targeting of social media following last week's riots in England started out as an absurdity, with twitter, fa...

From Waayaha Cusub (from Reuters Nairobi, 9 April 2010): For centuries, Somalis used poetry and songs to pass protest messages to powerful r...

London Pirate Frequencies is a nice short film presented by Matt Mason, tracing the story of free radio from the 1950s/60s forts in the Tha...

A short lived episode in the history of pirate radio was Radio Sutch, initiated by English rock'n'roller Screaming Lord Sutch (1940-...

Next up on the Dancing Questionnaire , is Smith3000 of Expletive Undeleted blog and much more besides - 'did fanzines as a kid, promote...

Justine Picardie’s If the Spirit Moves You (2001) is a book about bereavement, specifically the author’s struggle to come to terms with the ...

I noticed that on Galaxy FM (99.5) at the weekend they were broadcasting appeals for people to donate food, clothes and other stuff to peopl...

'A man has been banned from every roof top in London after pleading guilty to installing illegal pirate radio equipment on a tower block...

Yesterday's Telegraph reports that a Manga introduction to Marx's Capital has recently been published in Japan - cover below (for m...

The Dark Side of the Club is an exhibition of clubbing and music photographs by Jamie Simonds now showing at the Gowlett pub in Peckham . ...

Must admit I know very little about pirate radio outside of England, but here's a few interesting stories that caught my attention: Flor...

I've been spending a lot of time this weekend hanging round in a car. What has made it all bearable is the radio. Despite having weeks w...

Woofah issue three has been out for a month now, but it's taken me a while to get round to reviewing it. If you haven’t seen previous i...