History is made at night

BBC Radio 6 have been having a Kraftwerk-themed weekend, based on the rather slender premise that it is the 30th anniversary of The Mode...

The WKR-Ball in Vienna is an 'The annual ballroom dancefest of Austria’s pan-Germanist, far right student fraternities in the former Im...

Teenbeat Monthly was one of the wave of 1960s UK magazines published as part of the beat boom (see also Rave magazine ).  A friend found a...

On  January 30th 1972, the British state killed 13 unarmed demonstrators on the streets of Derry (a 14th died as a result of their injurie...

247TopCat has done a great service to social and cultural history by putting some old 1980s photos on youtube, including this series take...

Reggae producer Winston Riley died this week. Plainly not everybody liked him : 'Winston Riley, an innovative reggae musician and pro...

Well I was going to join today's 'internet strike' and close down the site for the day in solidarity with the movement against ...

A facebook found object for my digital collection of old flyers and tickets - this one is for a 1944 New Year's Day Saturday nigh...

A  while back I posted about the death of Katy Watson, feminist, Brixtonite, and radical  (among many other things). Sad news today from my...

1950s Soho clubs are one of the enduring obsessions of this site, but I didn't realise until recently that there was a specifically an...

Came aross this fragment in a letter I wrote a the end of January 1995, seemingly I had  had a busy month: 'me and Toby went to Taco ...

Well you can now watch the whole of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film Battleship Potemkin for free on youtube . If you don...

Ko-uta is a genre of Japanese music which developed from the 19th century. It literally means 'little song' and indeed the songs te...

There's nothing like a global wave of  popular insurgency to prompt weapons manufacturers to think of new ways to hurt and kill people....