History is made at night

'All around me there was an incredible rushing noise, which I knew was composed of shouting and screaming and firecrackers and stamping...

Henry Cow's 'Nine funerals of the Citizen King' is a track on their 1973 debut album 'Legend' and signalled the radical ...

A chronology of events in the UK See previously:  Welcome to 1984   January 1984 Wed 1 February – print unions and News International...

Some pictures from Athens last weekend: Demonstrators gather outside the university on 6 December, the 6th anniversary of the killing o...

From: South London Press, 3 January 1903: ' The Fatal Thirteen -Death from excessive dancing Dr Waldo held an inquest at the Southwa...

Daily Star, 10 October 1994 (from Datacide archive) Revolt of the Ravers:  The Movement Against the Criminal Justice Act, 1994 Su...

Panacea was a mid-1990s zine from Cardiff ('Panacea West') and Southsea ('Panacea South'). Panacea 'future soun...

From the excellent Oz Magazine archive , here's some images of London graffiti from Oz number 13 (June 1968), photographs apparently fr...

Back in December 2013, The Wire magazine featured this blog in its 'Unofficial Channels' column: (from The Wire, December 201...

Grew up reading about the late 1960s and early 1970s, all those heroic struggles of resistance and repression.They seemed like ancient hist...

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...