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...

247TopCat has done a great service to social and cultural history by putting some old 1980s photos on youtube, including this series take...

Reggae producer Winston Riley died this week. Plainly not everybody liked him : 'Winston Riley, an innovative reggae musician and pro...

Well I was going to join today's 'internet strike' and close down the site for the day in solidarity with the movement against ...

A facebook found object for my digital collection of old flyers and tickets - this one is for a 1944 New Year's Day Saturday nigh...

A  while back I posted about the death of Katy Watson, feminist, Brixtonite, and radical  (among many other things). Sad news today from my...

1950s Soho clubs are one of the enduring obsessions of this site, but I didn't realise until recently that there was a specifically an...

Came aross this fragment in a letter I wrote a the end of January 1995, seemingly I had  had a busy month: 'me and Toby went to Taco ...

Well you can now watch the whole of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film Battleship Potemkin for free on youtube . If you don...

Ko-uta is a genre of Japanese music which developed from the 19th century. It literally means 'little song' and indeed the songs te...

There's nothing like a global wave of  popular insurgency to prompt weapons manufacturers to think of new ways to hurt and kill people....

Thirty years ago last week, on December 16 1981, nine striking miners were killed by the state at the Wujek Coal Mine in Katowice. Three day...

Frightening tale from Indonesia of repression of young punks at hands of Islamists: /Dozens of young men and women have been detained for...

This article 'Retort Goes to a Party' by Holley Cantine was originally published in the Autumn 1951 issue of Retort, a journal of a...

Dorset: 'Illegal Rave blocked by Police' ( Bridport News, 1 December 2011 ) 'Lyme Regis police blocked an illegal rave that ...

I went on strike on Wednesday November 30th against changes to pensions for public sector workers - against in short having to work for lon...