History is made at night

A chronology of events in the UK (See also   Welcome to 1984 ; February 1984 ) 1984 started with various strikes, including the early r...

A while ago I put together a mix for Stefan Szczelkun's Agit Disco series of political music, which was later included in the book of ...

Stuart Hall (1932-2014), who died yesterday, was of course one of the founders of 'cultural studies', and one of the first British-b...

When Pete Seeger (1919-2014) was born the First World had only just finished. I don't feel so much sad that he has died this week almos...

'New Orleans means music' So what word comes to mind when you hear the name 'New Orleans'? Other than 'flood' it...

Well 1984 was thirty years ago, so why not use the arbitrary temporal conventions of decade-based anniversaries as an excuse for a series of...

'I'm your man: the life of Leonard Cohen' (2012) is an excellent biography of everybody's favourite Jewish-Buddhist-Canadian...

UK Government documents just released by the National Archives include correspondence relating to a 1983 forged recording purporting to be ...

'Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can f...

Good luck to firefighters on strike today in England and Wales in their pensions dispute, and to those in the London fire stations facing c...

There were violent clashes in Hamburg yesterday over the threat to evict the Rote Flora social centre. The ex-theatre in the city's ...

So P rime Minister David Cameron sticks his nose into a current court case and proclaims his support for Nigella Lawson - well of course s...

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and Alexander Trocchi (1925-1984) might not seem to have too much in common as writers, but I wonder whether...

In 1935 the International Workers' Music Olympiad, an anti-fascist festival, was held at Strasbourg in France close to the German border...