History is made at night

Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the jihadist bombs in London, which killed 52 people. One response was TangoCommute : 'To mark the ...

Tina Modotti (1896-1942) is best known as photographer, but her's was one of those lives that joined the dots between different radica...

I am fascinated by old dancing manuals - this example is 'Ballroom Dancing Made Easy' by Robert Brandon, first published by C.Arthur...

In Defence of Disco by Richard Dyer was first published in the magazine Gay Left, Issue 8, in 1979. It has been republished in academic cont...

The Nazis were hostile to jazz on racist grounds and various restrictions were placed on it. A complete ban was impossible to enforce, partl...

The Daily Express has been a fount of right wing bile for many years. Here's a classic example of its historic racism, a leading article...