History is made at night

This is one of my favourite headlines for a while, from  Slate.Com : 'Bodybuilder Sneaks Aboard German Leader’s Jet, Stages One Man Ra...

So there I was talking to a neighbour and the Situationists came up in the conversation, and he says to me I think I've got some of th...

'Because all these serious faces’ll drive you mad, the only meaning is without meaning– Music blends with the heartbeat universe and we...

Playwright and actor Steven Berkoff (b.1937) wrote an autobiography 'Free Association' in 1997. Born in a Jewish family in Stepney ...

Struggling to remember the names of Cold War US presidents? Here's a handy South London mnemonic taught to my daughter by her history te...

Protests are spreading across Turkey following the violent police assault on the Gezi park occupation on Taksim Square in Istanbul city cent...

Santa Maria, Brazil, 2013 'Sixteen people will face criminal charges in connection with a deadly fire at a Brazil nightclub in January...

A new low in corporate clubbing at the Shimmy club in Glasgow, where women have complained about a two way mirror looking in to the women...

'Once upon a time New York nightclubs catered to the aristocracy of the fabulous, to those with the looks, the style, or the connection...

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...