History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Stop the City, London, March 1984

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'Protest and Carnival against War, Oppression and Exploitation' In 1983-84 the financial centre of London was the focus for a series...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

UK nightclub chain goes bust

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The financial crisis looks to have killed off the UK's largest chain of nightclubs, threatening up to 3000 jobs. According to the Finaci...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Chile Thriller Protest

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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...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Occupy London Second Thoughts

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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...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Mona's San Francisco: 1940s lesbian club

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'After 1920 women who occasionally wore men's clothing and those who passed as men began to socialize more openly in cafes and night...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Occupy London: first thoughts

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The various Occupy actions around the world at the weekend have varied in scale, intensity and political mood. Rioting and huge crowds in Ro...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

An 18th century drag ball in London

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Richard Norton's Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook includes lots of fascinating material, not least in relation...
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Sunday, October 02, 2011

1980 mods: reaction or rebellion?

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(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...
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Friday, September 30, 2011

Police and parties, 1994-95

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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...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

1987: dancing in Brixton and beyond

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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...
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