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Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, White Panthers and skinheads on acid... may be off interest @joebankswriter.bsky.social @peterstanfield.bsky.social

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Brand new, the amazing story of the White Panthers, early 70s radical anti-racist hippies inc. their SE London groups. Includes some great first hand tales of outlaw life from someone who lived in their squatted commune in Woolwich www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eXp...

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Swedenborgians in South London - in late 19th century New Jerusalem Churches were built in Deptford, Camberwell and Upper Norwood transpont.blogspot.com/2025/02/swed...

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Good to hear @stuartmaconie.bsky.social highlighting Dave Godin and Soul City records and its Deptford origins- yes they coined the term 'northern soul'. Godin a queer anarchist who ran the Tamla Motown appreciation society and met a lot of the Detroit greats transpont.blogspot.com/2008/04/dept...

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Enjoying the queer marine biology of 'My life in sea creatures' & its comparisons between crabs and clubbing: 'communities in need will always find one another and invent new ways to glitter, together, in the dark' history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/02/my-l...

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Valentine weekend action in Deptford/Lewisham including some 'horrible music for horrible people'

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The New Cross Venue 1991, key London indie venue with Levellers, Chumbawamba, Lush @mikiberenyi.bsky.social , Blur, Melvins, Billy Bragg and many more. Lots more here: transpont.blogspot.com/2025/02/chum...

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A short piece on the resident and visiting Black population of London in the 1880s (estimated 10,000, incl. boxers and entertainers from Jamaica, Barbados, USA, and born here eg. in Portsmouth), mixed marriage, and silly contrarian racists on the internet: grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/01/20/a...

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In 1840 there were 5 inmates at Millbank Penitentiary jailed for taking part in 1839 Chartist rising in Newport. Tate Britain gallery @tate.bsky.social now stands on the site of the prison along with Chelsea College of Art.

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A reminder about Sunday. Come down and support some local singer-songwriters. From 6.30pm.

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South London sunset in Telegraph Hill Park - first time for this little one

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Ambivalent about new series of Buffy - which at the time and for many years after I considered the best TV programme ever (still do really even though tarnished by revelations about Whedon). Wrote this about its last series more than 20 years ago history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2008/05/clas...

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The 'wall of respect for the radical histories of Railton Road' was painted in 2021 & depicts radical spaces including the 121 Centre where I spent many a happy hour (and maybe a few not so happy). More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2025/02/rail...

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🏺 My talk to the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society about the #southwark deep shelter is now online youtu.be/irm99cIsnhk?...

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A short report of the demo against far right in London at weekend, fair play to Lambrini Girls for turning out history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/02/lond...

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Leonora Carrington. 'Woman with fox' in current free exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery, London I

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Well done all those who turned out to oppose far right in London today - Never Again

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Shall I see you tonight, sister, bathed in magic greet? Shall we meet on the hilltop where the two roads meet? youtu.be/H8yJcMuQS1k?...

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Hysteria, Hope and Revolution - Catherine Chinatree's junglist art @quenchgallery.bsky.social in Margate history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/01/hyst...

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Remembering Scottish born Greenwich Chartist May Paris

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Yes there is a wine shop in East Dulwich called Planet of the Grapes

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Days of the Tunbridge Wells Underground (1971) - White Panthers, Pink Fairies, Arts Lab and festivals 'for the nicer type of freak' - full story here: history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-... @joebankswriter.bsky.social @peterstanfield.bsky.social

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Rubbish & Nasty, New Cross Road - noughties ''nu-rave squat-chic" transpont.blogspot.com/2025/01/rubb...

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This concerns death of a man in police custody at Lewisham Hospital www.itv.com/news/london/...

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In 1979 David Lynch filmed The Elephant Man at Shad Thames/Butlers Wharf SE1, hanging out with Mel Brooks, Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt transpont.blogspot.com/2025/01/davi...

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Hollydale Tavern SE15 reopens, family friendly vibe with delightful birds prints by Peckham artist Fran Giffard transpont.blogspot.com/2025/01/holl...

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Updated my post on HMS Belfast SE1 with some other tales so it now includes riotous Spandau Ballet gig, Depeche Mode as well as a 1981 housing protest with Peter Tatchell and some nice pictures of seagulls transpont.blogspot.com/2025/01/herr...

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#neverforget #newcrossfire #1981 #44years

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David Lynch in South London (Butlers Wharf) with Mel Brooks 1979, wonder if they bumped into Derek Jarman

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Fascinating article includes school protests involving Dulwich College and Kingsdale schools in south London

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New at blog transpont.blogspot.com/2025/01/herr...

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Berlin based transnational zine Datacide @datacide.bsky.social & predecessor Alien Underground still going strong from the 1990s when we called most of what we liked techno

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Herring gull by Thames

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Children of Hiroshima - in 1955 hundreds of people attended peace meetings in Lewisham & Bromley with showings of a Japanese film about the impact of the first atom bomb transpont.blogspot.com/2025/01/chil...

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