History is made at night

The Idle No More movement for indigenous rights started out in Canada last year, and has been marked by protests across the country and sim...

On Redcross Way SE1 (near to London Bridge station), the site of a paupers' graveyard was discovered during construction of the Jubilee...

On Valentine's Day last week, there were flashmob dances and similar actions in at least 190 countries as part of One Billion Rising...

The latest news on threatened record shop chain HMV is that administrators Deloitte have announced that 66 of the 220 shops will close whe...

No I don't mean the racist idiots of the English Defence League and the British National Party... they are yesterday's news. I refer...

The Civic Hall in Dunstable, later renamed the Queensway, was built in 1966 and demolished to make way for an Asda supermarket in 2000. Gro...

Sad to hear that Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel High Street was damaged last night in an apparent arson attack. The anarchist centre in An...

The threatened closure of HMV (which has gone into administration) saddens me mainly because thousands of staff in its shops in Britain and ...

The death this week of Gerry Anderson has sparked an outpouring of nostalgia from those brought up on his TV programmes in the 1960s and 197...

Another example of 1960s 'rave' - an advert for an 'All Nite Mod Rave' on 18 July 1964 in Bradford, at the Coffin club in I...

Earlier this week (December 12), Norfolk police posted a short video on Youtube with the title 'Seized rave equipment destroyed'. A...

If anyone got robbed, burgled or raped this weekend in London and wondered where the police were when they needed them - hey, they had other...

Previously we discussed how the word Discotheque, coined in France by the 1940s, seems to have entered the English language in the early 19...

Glad to see Elizabeth Price win the Turner Prize. Pleased too that she mentioned her (similar to mine) Luton upbringing in her winning speec...