otd 1986 - Levellers and The Bambi Slam play squat gig at Camberwell Dickie Dirts (now site of Nando's). More here transpont.blogspot.com/2026/08/leve...

Levellers squat gig at Camberwell Dickie Dirts, 1986

In the early 1980s the former Odeon cinema site in Camberwell, on the corner of Denmark Hill and Coldharbour Lane, became a branch of the di...

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SE pub/bar/coffee latest - new pub opening at White Hart SE14 (renamed Broken Wheel), new coffee shop by Nunhead station, Montague Arms refurbed but still empty, Brockley Queer Social at Joyce and more transpont.blogspot.com/2026/08/beer...

Beer and coffee latest: ex-White Hart opening in New Cross, new coffee shop by Nunhead station and much more

As always lots going on in the SE London beer and coffee zone.  Best news is that a new pub is set to open shortly on the site of the former...

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New Bonobo/Joy Crookes track is great, what South London locations can you spot? youtu.be/6TN7ouUoP04?...

Bonobo - Always on Your Side (feat. Joy Crookes) (Official Music Video)

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Finally made it to the wonderful Bude Sea Pool this week, like many places sustained over the years by a community of swimmers in the face of austerity and funding cuts. More here: go-feet.blogspot.com/2026/07/bude...

Free Deptford Dub Club outdoor session in one of the best parks in London on 1 August - Beckenham Place Park

Frog or toad?

Looking forward to seeing the great Scritti Politti tomorrow. Back in 1979 they were attacked by skinheads while performing at a Stevenage Rock Against Racism gig in Hitchin. More here history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/07/far-...

Far right skins attack Scritti Politti at Rock Against Racism gig in Hitchin, 1979

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In 1984 far right skinheads violently attacked a huge left wing GLC 'Jobs for a Change' festival on London's South Bank SE1 while Redskins played. Some photos from the day have resurfaced. More here: history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/07/raci... (@mikiberenyi.bsky.social was there too)

In 1982 Frida Kahlo was one of two 'unknown artists' featured in an exhibition @whitechapelgallery.bsky.social along with Tina Modotti. So unknown that she wasn't even mentioned on related front cover of City Limits, the left wing London listing magazine

An LGBT themed cultural history tour around the London Bridge/Tower Bridge SE1 area feat. Derek Jarman, Andrew Logan, Spandau Ballet, lost clubs, warehouse parties, Rolling Stones. @BoyGeorge, Sex Pistols, Throbbing Gristle, Xray Spex, Gilles Peterson and more! archive.org/details/arou...

General Strike 1926 - 'murderous volley of missiles' as police and strikers clash at fuel depot by Charlton riverside transpont.blogspot.com/2026/06/gene...

Enjoyed reading Emma Warren's history of the youth club and got me thinking about my own Luton youth club times in the punk/postpunk period history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/06/up-y...

Opposing the racist National Front in Hitchin, Herts 1971 (more here) history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/06/oppo... (note Hitchin IWA placard @tajali1.bsky.social)

'hip hop is like a folk expression, believe it or not. It's all about for the people, by the people, and to basically stay with the people'. Lauryn Hill in 1994 Fugees interview in Minneapolis anarchist paper The Blast history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/06/when...

'When it's time to be blunt, we be blunt. And when it's time to be poetic, we be poetic' - Fugees interview (1994)

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#OnThisDay in London theatrical history, 1939: Bricklayers stage a play version of the socialist novel the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in Peckham to raise funds for Aid for Spain A post about South London solidarity with Spain:
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Southwark Spain Shop, Walworth Road: anti-fascist solidarity in South London

Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973) was an Austrian photographer who studied at the Bauhaus. Born Edith Suschitzky, she came from a left wing Jewis...

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Where's the fire? Loads of smoke in Bermondsey direction (photo from Tower Bridge)

Protests are stepping up in France against new RIPOST law criminalising free parties (images from Monpellier Manifestive demo yesterday)- more here history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/05/fran...

Watched the Kylie doc and remembered that in 2019 she filmed a show @RivoliBallroom in Crofton Park transpont.blogspot.com/2019/12/kyli...

Peter J Carroll has died, co-creator of Chaos Magic amidst the anarchy, punk and squatting in Deptford's Speedwell House in the 1970s. More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2026/05/pete...

Trad, mod, 'non stop jiving' and 'no skiffle' - the jazz club boom in Luton, 1958-63. More here: history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/05/luto...

@academicdiary.bsky.social hi les, can i send you review copy of my new New Cross book? (DM me if so)

Deptford Jack in the Green bringing in the May tomorrow plus a whole May Day festival of music and beer - plus report of a raucous 19th century Jack in the Green in Woolwich transpont.blogspot.com/2026/04/dept...

Goldsmiths students occupation against staff and course cuts is now in its second week, with a rally on Wednesday. More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2026/04/gold...

AI good for something? Spotify has generated a @bunnyhausen.bsky.social mix based on my listening habits

More Sarah Records stuff, I’m afraid, but this one’s a biggie… because My Secret World, Lucy Dawkins’ 2014 film about the label, is now available to view in full for free online. So if you’ve ever wondered what all these people I keep talking about looked and sounded like, [1/3]

The Pogues had the launch party for their 'Rum, sodomy and the lash' album on HMS Belfast in 1985 transpont.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

‘It was so queer being awake and having dreams’. The Magic Faraway Tree books as utopian fantasies influencing Alan Moore, 1990s road protestors and more (now a film) history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/04/it-w...

Thousands of books at the at the Telegraph Hill Bog Charity Book Sale, which continues tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon. Great selection of London books, including lots of Mary Mills' classic Greenwich history stuff

Peckham and Bermondsey @cnduk.bsky.social banners on a 1980s demo against nuclear weapons (photo from Museum of Youth Culture). Not sure of details of where and when