History is made at night

A feminist critique of rock written in the immediate post-punk period. It was published in London-based radical magazine The Leveller in Oct...

'But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out onl...

Georges Bataille, The Sacred Conspiracy , 1936 'It is time to abandon the world of the civilized and its light. It is too late to want t...

'the Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audac...

The International Working Men's Association (later know as the First International) was established in 1864, with its famous statement ...

In the late nineteenth century a mandolin craze swept America and Europe, leading to the formation of numerous mandolin orchestras with mai...

War dances are well-known, but what of peace dances? The above photo, taken in 1905, show a peace dance in the Andaman islands . An account...

Nancy Spero, Artist of Feminism, Is Dead at 83 (NY Times, 19 October 2009) 'Ms. Spero was active in the Art Workers Coalition, and in 1...

San Francisco Chronicle reports the death of Lenore Kandel, belly dancer, beat poet , Digger and radical: 'Lenore Kandel hung out with...

40 years ago this summer police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York, prompting a gay riot and a new phase in the gay liberation movement. O...

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk...

'Dorothy Coonan was one of Busby Berkeley's principal chorus dancers who had performed in such films as Whoopee! (1930) and 42nd Str...

Yesterday's post on mandolins and anti-fascist resistance in Warsaw has prompted this response from Ruin Gebirk in Berlin: "I read...

Posted last week on Marek Edelman and the 1943 resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Surviving this, he later took part in the following year...

Before the mirror's dance of shadows She dances in a dream, And she and they together seem A dance of shadows, Alike the shadows of a d...

Photographer Nat Finkelstein died last Friday. He was best known for his documentation of Andy Warhol's factory scene in the 1960s. Fin...

Marek Edelman died last week in Poland, a last link with the Jewish fighters who fought against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto. Edelman w...

A Greek singer is in hospital after being attacked by members of the Golden Dawn neo-nazi party in Athens last week. Sofia Papazoglou (pict...

Obituary of Michael English, graphic artist , who died last month. English was one half of Hapshash and The Coloured Coat, along with Nigel ...

It must presumably have been the sight of prisoner's legs swinging as they were publically hanged that invited the comparison with danci...

Franco Rosso's 1980 film Babylon returned to its South London roots with a showing at the Deptford Albany this week: 'In Babylon, ...

'A man has been banned from every roof top in London after pleading guilty to installing illegal pirate radio equipment on a tower block...

Paul Jones on the cover, February 1967 + 'Fantastic Rave Offer: Boyfriends by Computer' (years ahead of its time) + 'Dolly clo...

During this week's anti-capitalist protests against the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, police used a 'sonic cannon' as well as CS gas...

'Danger in Familiarities' - the American Social Hygiene Association advises on 'The Correct Dancing Position' from 1922: ...

As this post concerns both a South East London story and documents a club scene I wasn't sure whether to post it at my localist Transpon...

Three Essex cops have been put on restricted duty while an internal inquiry is undertaken into a police assault in Brentwood, Essex last wee...