History is made at night

From the 'Black Panther' newspaper, January 17, 1970, adverts for Black Panther Party records. Seize the Time was a collection...

The 121 Centre in Brixton , variously known as an ‘anarchist centre’, ‘social centre’ and ‘squatted centre’, was a hub of international ra...

Luc Sante is the 23rd person to complete the Dancing Questionnaire. Luc has written extensively on New York cultural history, and much mor...

Nostell Priory Music Festival was held near Wakefield in West Yorkshire in 1984, a commercial festival with performances from Van Morriso...

India 'The Delhi Police on Monday busted a gang of snake smugglers and recovered four cobras and about half-a-litre of venom after a ...

BBC Radio 6 have been having a Kraftwerk-themed weekend, based on the rather slender premise that it is the 30th anniversary of The Mode...

The WKR-Ball in Vienna is an 'The annual ballroom dancefest of Austria’s pan-Germanist, far right student fraternities in the former Im...

Teenbeat Monthly was one of the wave of 1960s UK magazines published as part of the beat boom (see also Rave magazine ).  A friend found a...

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...