History is made at night

'Vaseline zine' started out in 1995 'for gay people who love indie and alternative music and want to rage against the scene'...

Rene Matić's exhibition 'upon this rock' at the South London Gallery features their very moving film 'Many Rivers' about...

I don't think anyone who knows 1970s UK pop culture would argue with the fact that Suzi Quatro was one of the leather clad pop rockers w...

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...