History is made at night

The movement against the M11 linkroad in Leytonstone (or Leytonstonia as we termed it then), North East London, was one of the more ins...

Courtesy of Pops (Sentinel Design) and Wayne Anthony , some classic acid house footage from July 1989. It starts off with a Biology rave in ...

The precise details of what's going on in the Tivoli Gardens area of Kingston, Jamaica are still unclear. But it is already established ...

Went to an event at the 195 Mare Street squatted social centre in Hackney last weekend. Very interesting film and short talk from someone in...

In my street in New Cross last week, somebody left a pile of books outside for passers-by to help themselves to. So it came to pass that ove...

At 240 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park in North London there is currently a semi derelict pub. Before it closed it was known as the George...

Thirty years ago this week... Ian Curtis , 15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980. An industry of Manchester retro-mania and Killers cover versions sti...

Love this story... a protest for better conditions for San Francisco hotel workers (including healthcare), featuring a flashmob in a hotel l...

In our search for the origins of rave , we have previously looked at the revivalist and trad jazz scenes in London from the late 1940s to th...

Iranian police detained 80 young men and women for "lustful pleasure-seeking" activities at an illegal concert, Tehran's chief...

Flesh and Stone: the Body and the City in Western Civilization (1994)by Richard Sennett ‘is a history of the city told through people’s bod...

Most of the obituaries to Lena Horne (1917-2010), who died last weekend, mention her involvement in the civil rights movement. But what is ...

Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins has a new book out, England my England , featuring 40 years of his documentary photography, with an exhib...

Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961) was a leading figure in the struggle for the independence of Congo from the Belgian Empire. He briefly became fi...

Continuing our series on pop stars with a sounder grasp of migration politics than has been seen so far in the British elections, good to se...

RIP Lynn Redgrave - here she is in the great 1966 London movie Georgy Girl . The soundtrack song was by The Seekers. And here she is danci...

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964), lived to see many May Days as a key figure in the US workers movement for more than 50 years. In 1939, ...

Last night I floated the idea of voting for Amerie in the UK elections (even though she's not standing!), on the basis that her critiqu...

So why put up a video for Amerie's 1 Thing at this late stage in the day? Well it's a great track and why can't I a put up a go...

I posted last year on the 30 th anniversary of the death of Blair Peach, killed during the anti-fascist demonstration in Southall , West Lo...