Sunday, March 27, 2022

Always Remember: the AIDS Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern (2025) and Hyde Park (1994)

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The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt has been on display in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern (June 2025). The Quilt, made in the 1990s, consists of ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

London Club Listings 1982

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London club listing from Time Out, 26 February 1982. Before my London clubbing days, and I must say it doesn't sound too great though of...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Gays Against Nazis, Leeds 1978

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Gays Against Nazis/Rock Against Racism gig at Leeds Poly, 30 June 1978 with The Mekons, reggae band Tribesman and Sheffield post-punk band 2...
Sunday, March 06, 2022

Skibadee remembered on home turf

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The great junglist/drum & bass MC Skibadee died last month and fittingly is the subject of lots of memorial graffiti around Waterloo in ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Song of the Living Corpses - Japanese Textile Workers' Ballads

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As Japan industrialised in the late 19th and early 20th century large numbers of young women were employed in textile mills, often living in...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Parallel Mothers: History refuses to shut its mouth

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Lots to love in 'Parallel Mothers'/'Madres Paralelas' (2021), the latest Pedro Almodóvar film. One plot thread concerns the ...
Monday, February 07, 2022

Stop Clause 28 - a queer (near) riot in London, 1988

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'Section 28' of the Local Government Act 1988 was a piece of culture war-style legislation framed by Margaret Thatcher's Conserv...
Wednesday, February 02, 2022

A Jewish Ball in London (1859)

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'Yesterday evening a grand ball, attended by the leading members of the Hebrew persuasion in the city, took place at the London Tavern, ...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Simulmatics, sorcery and counter-insurgency

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 The murky story of American “psychological operations” in the Vietnam war features many strange episodes. As told in ‘If Then: How One Data...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

The Au Pairs - 1981 Interview with Lesley Woods

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'9 August 1980. Ninth anniversary of  internment, and the Au Pairs are playing a free gig for the kids in West Belfast. Rock The Block -...