History is made at night

On  January 30th 1972, the British state killed 13 unarmed demonstrators on the streets of Derry (a 14th died as a result of their injurie...

Today is Hiroshima Day - on August 6th 1945, the first nuclear weapon was dropped on Japan, killing perhaps 70,000 people in an instant, and...

Geraldine Hoff Doyle (pictured) died in Lansing , Michigan on December 26 th at the age of 86. Nearly 70 years ago she was working as a 17 ...

Since Prince fell out with with Warner Brothers in the 1990s he has pursued various unconventional strategies for distributing his prolific ...

War dances are well-known, but what of peace dances? The above photo, taken in 1905, show a peace dance in the Andaman islands . An account...

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

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

In the new journal Nyx - a noctournal (produced by people associated with the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, New Cross...

Matthew Collin, who has been reporting for the BBC during the recent terrible events in Georgia, is also the author of 'Altered State: ...

Is there ever a time when it's not OK to dance? Of course there have always been priests telling people not to dance on sabbaths, but wh...

Previous posts have considered the recent 30th anniversary of The Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen and the 25th anniversary of The Falkla...

The Celebrating Sanctuary refugee music festival last weekend (see earlier post ) was rudely interrupted by the sound of assorted airborne k...