History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Monday, August 26, 2024

Monday Blues

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Spotted  by Dollis Brook while walking part of the Capital Ring this weekend  
Friday, August 23, 2024

Judy Chicago at Serpentine

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 Judy Chicago 'Revelations' is a retrospective of the artist's work at London's Serpentine gallery. Her feminist imagery is ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Tower Hamlets - Cockney Rebels exhibition

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'Cockney Rebels: Popular Music in Tower Hamlets, 1624-2003' is a free exhibition at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive...
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Friday, August 02, 2024

Unite Against Racism demo in East End 1994 + a spycop report on David Bowie donating to Anti Nazi League

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In 1993 the far right British National Party achieved a breakthrough in the East End of London when one of its members was elected as a coun...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Art Not Evidence: against the criminalisation of rap and drill

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Art Not Evidence posters in Camberwell, South London, July 2024 ' Art Not Evidence is a growing coalition of lawyers, journalists, arti...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Beat the Blues Festival 1980: 'Post punk Woodstock' at the Ally Pally

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The Beat the Blues Festival was a one day event at the Alexandra Palace in north London on 15 June 1980, held to mark the 50th birthday of t...
Saturday, July 06, 2024

The Oxford Street 48: arrests on peace march (1982)

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  On Sunday June 6th 1982, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament held a huge demonstration to coincide with a visit by US President Ronald Re...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Working Class Records: Antifascista Siempre

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Picked up this rather fine 'Antifascista Siempre' t-shirt in Spain recently, produced by Madrid-based Working Class Records. They ha...
Monday, June 17, 2024

Wild Combination: Arthur Russell zine

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'Wild Combination: a zine inspired by the music of Arthur Russell' is published by Black Lodge Press . I got a copy from the excelle...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Stay True

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 'first, I was drawn to raves more for the idea of community than the music itself. You found a flyer, called a number, copied down the ...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

My student occupations - University of Kent at Canterbury (1981-84)

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My first student occupation took place shortly after arriving at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC), and it was a short one. As the ...
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Thursday, April 04, 2024

Shocking Pink and other feminist zines: an interview with Katy Watson

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The 'Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990' exhibition at Tate Britain (2024) included a great collection of zines a...
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