History is made at night

Mussolini's ascent to power in Italy in 1922 was the start of a terrible period in European history, followed by similar far right dicta...

Sucker for old gramophone record sleeves, advertising the shops they were bought in. I found these examples in a Peckham charity shop, both ...

We've previously covered the Stop the City demonstrations in London of 1983/84 when a couple of thousand  people, mainly young anarcho-p...

1983/84 saw a series of anti-capitalist 'Stop the City' actions focused on the financial centre of London and other cities too, incl...

An interview with folk singers Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger from 1978, published in the socialist  newspaper Militant (28/7/1978) after the ...

Happy 125th birthday Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) , born 19th July 1898 and still spooking fascists from beyond the grave - see how he featur...

 1976 article about Italian radical radio station Radio Citta Futura (Radio Future City) from Red Weekly, paper of the International Marxis...

An account of violence against women in the vicinity of feminist discos 'in the South London area'  in 1977. Slightly frustrating fo...

Club listings from i-D magazine,  no. 135, April 1995, covering lots of places in Britain and Ireland, but with the photos all from legendar...

Tales from a Disappearing City is a new youtube podcast from DJ Controlled Weirdness (Neil Keating) exploring untold subcultural stories fr...

'the showy disco style caught on and is now seen in dance halls and at parties. The long dress, inconvenient for modern dances, has give...

Bedroll Bella by Sid Waddell (Sphere, 1973) is the story of a feisty, foul mouthed, hard drinking, 'right raver' and proud Geordi...

  In Summer 1992 I went to Milan with Italian friends who I knew from Brixton to go to a radical gathering/festival in Parco Lambro. The cit...