History is made at night

The financial crisis looks to have killed off the UK's largest chain of nightclubs, threatening up to 3000 jobs. According to the Finaci...

Personally I am a little jaded by Michael Jackson flashmobs, but this example from Chile in June 2011 takes it to another level of political...

Since last Saturday's start of Occupy London Stock Exchange (Occupy LSX ), I've been back a couple of times to the camp. The tent t...

'After 1920 women who occasionally wore men's clothing and those who passed as men began to socialize more openly in cafes and night...

The various Occupy actions around the world at the weekend have varied in scale, intensity and political mood. Rioting and huge crowds in Ro...

Richard Norton's Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook includes lots of fascinating material, not least in relation...

(click on images to enlarge) In January 1980, London-based radical magazine The Leveller tried to come to terms with the mod revival that ha...

A while ago I posted chronologies of police and parties from 1996 and 1997 . Here's some more from 1994 and 1995, all from England unles...

The Acid House moment of the late 1980s, like the Punk moment a decade or so previously, is often presented as a kind of Year Zero where som...

Bruce Turner's painting 'Pavlova' is a remarkable early modernist image of a dancer in motion painted in around 1912. I saw it y...

I've been meaning to post for a while on the Irish hunger strike in 1981, an event that had a big impact on me when I was growing up. 3...

Summer police and party news from England.... Police use taser in North West London ( Harrow Observer , 7 September 2011) 'Riot police ...

A global economic crisis is leading to global austerity - yet paradoxically in places at the sharp end populist nationalism is resurgent ami...

Robert Beckford's 'Jesus Dub: theology, music and social change' (London: Routledge, 2006) offers a 'dialogue between the cu...