History is made at night

From 'The People' July 24 1960 a report on Beatniks in Liverpool, London and elsewhere, with some choice quotes and turns of phrase:...

Continuing the series on the radical history of Luton, here's a bit about a 1970s radical bookshop, Partisan Books which was based at 34...

Not sure how many folk music revivals we have had now, of course it's never really gone away but I am enjoying the latest queer friendly...

Dave Lawson (1972-2021) was a  London and North Wales based artist whose Indieprints series features numerous music themed designs, often in...

A couple of free festivals I went to in north London's Finsbury Park back in 1996. Not sure of the date of the first one - 'Festival...

A fascinating Derek Jarman talk and film at London's Farsight Gallery last month, featuring a 1984 LWT (London Weekend TV) documentary f...

Dan Hancox has written a great piece on ' Debunking the weird myths about London's 24-hour party people' in which he takes to ta...

Last week I stumbled across an exhibition of photos of Jeff Buckley by Merri Cyr, including the shots she took for the cover of Grace, his o...

Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent at the Whitechapel Gallery is a retrospective of 50 years of radical image making.  'attempt to expres...

Charity fundraising t-shirt for Doctors Without Borders from Jeremy Deller, featuring Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, of Greek Cypriot descent...