History is made at night

Continuing series of scanning in old flyers of things I went to in ancient times, or should I say documenting priceless cultural history art...

  Image from 'Come dine in blue' , a participatory art project working with migrant communities in Lewisham.

The 'Women, Life, Freedom' revolt in Iran is an inspiration. I can only express my solidarity for those who have taken to the street...

I was in Hackney recently for a Hackney radical history walk/talk and went past the Pembury Tavern on Amhurst Road. The pub has been there s...

'The Big Sexy Festy Party' The rather grandiosely titled Free Festival of Human and and Environmental Global Rights was a one day le...

The East London Gay Centre was at 19 Redmans Road, Stepney in the 1970s. As this report from 1976 describes it faced sometimes violent hosti...

From the NME, 17 March 1984, Neil Spencer interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson. Don’t call him a dub poet… ‘I’m not a dub poet and I don’t want t...

I saw an online discussion recently about the origins of the term 'gender bender'. Seemingly Jon Savage used it in a 1980 article ab...

The London Anarchist Bookfair in September 2021 took place in the shadow of Covid. Some of it was held outside in Red Lion Square, while ins...

'Monica Sjöö: The time is NOW and it is overdue!'  at the Beaconsfield Gallery, London SE11 brings together a large collection of pa...

I have been enjoying Phil Baker's 'City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley' (Strange Attractor, 2022), which traces hi...