History is made at night

What were the UK pop kids, dancers and punks listening to 30 years ago? Here's some clues in the charts  from the New Musical Express 2...

The sounds Of the Harlem night Drop one by one into stillness. The last player-piano is closed. The last victrola ceases with t...

My favourite Arthur Machen story is the The White People , published in 1899, featuring the diary of a young woman who has stumbled into the...

Effigy of Thatcher at the party in Trafalgar Square last night - the hair made out of Sainsbury's carrier bags (insert joke about gro...

Up until 1983, the authorities generally left Irish republican funerals alone. An abrupt change of policy by Margaret Thatcher's govern...

KRS-Dan on Flickr has been uploading some yellowing newspaper clippings from the acid house era. This one from the Sun, 2 November 1988, s...

In 1944 the Nazi occupation of Paris was in its last deadly phase. The RAF was bombing the city's railway stations and the Resistance wa...

Excellent Dublin newspaper/blog Rabble has an interesting piece on the Public Dance Halls Act 1935 in Ireland, which remains in force to t...

The working class style tribes of  the 1980s have been nicely recreated in Shane Meadows'  This is England films/TV series. But some of...

Girl Germs   is a 'feminist not-for-profit club night that showcases women-fronted bands' with their next night coming up on April 2...

SP23 (formerly Spiral Tribe) are putting on a rare event in London on 19 April, at Village Underground, London EC2. They say: &...

This weekend is the last chance to see 'A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance' at Tate Modern in London. The exhibition '...

In the last weeks before he was drowned in 1822,    Percy Bysshe Shelley  wrote a series of poems inspired by his friend Jane Williams   an...

Dancing in Lost River Cave , Bowling Green,Kentucky in the late 1940s 'shared conviviality could be seen as a kind of communistic b...

The Workers Film and Photo League  (sometimes just 'The Film and Photo League') was a 1930s organisation associated with the Commun...