Steve Barrow (29 September 1945–30 May 2026) Steve Barker gives a personal appreciation of the reggae historian and label runner who has died aged 80. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Manasseh productions from the 2000s were something very special.

#JuneMonthOfRevolt ‬ #OnThisDay in London rebellious history, 1780: A crowd of Gordon Rioters march on Newgate prison from Long Acre & Covent Garden, and set fire to the Keeper, Richard Akerman’s house, seize the prison keys, and free at least 117 prisoners, striking off their chains.

This is a lovely find!

Great conversation with the UK's best political ideas podcast... listen below or give them a follow at www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

RIP Steve Barrow. 🙏 Prior to the magnificent Blood and Fire label, Steve worked for Trojan. In the late 80s he dug deep into their archive and compiled dozens of LPs that contained many rare reggae and rocksteady gems. Here's just 9 of those incredible LPs... #reggae #reggaesky #vinyl #musicsky

So sad to her about this loss of the very great, and very generous, Steve Barrow. When The Congos played in London last year, he was the only person they gave a shout out to from the stage. Imagine just how great a reissue label must be to be that guy who gets a namecheck from the band.

RIP to a legend and inspiration.

Our recent talk on the 1926 General Strike in Hackney, ‘Not A Thing Was Moving’, part of @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social is now up on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ap8l...

My and Jane's little film SCALA!!! is now FREE to watch for 14 days via this link, thanks to our lovely distributors, the BFI. And it has a terrific intro by Kermode too. player.bfi.org.uk/subscription... But do consider taking out a BFI player subscription too!

In addition, Family Search frequently utilizes prison labor to digitize materials they make available so it's just a turducken of exploitation activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

Bass Clef, Some Truths, eeexxxttteeennndddeeedddppplllaaayyy albums and eps on Open Hand Real Flames and Magic+Dreams are all > 0.50€ < for a bit (because somehow I got really old) magicanddreams.bandcamp.com openhandrealflames.bandcamp.com

#OnThisDay, in London murderous racist policing history, 1971: a Black woman, Aseta Simms of 47 Brighton Road, Stoke Newington, is arrested, taken to Stoke Newington police station and killed by police hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/w...

In honor of Ben Morea’a recent passing, we’ve published Ariel Uesseler’s beautiful preface to the forthcoming Japanese edition of Full Circle. illwill.com/a-life-in-re...

Why was Kenmure Road (off the Narrow Way) so hectic in May 1926? This Saturday May 9th! The General Strike in #Hackney Free event 4pm at Hackney Archives. with @pasttensehistories.bsky.social part of Hackney History Festival tickettailor.com/events/hackn... #GeneralStrike100 (last video!)

Who got mashed up in the Mare Street Triangle trough? (Clue: scabs, it was scabs.). Come to Hackney Archives this Saturday May 9th at 4pm to find out more...https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hackneyhistoryfestival/2091604 #generalstrike100

Come to our talk this Saturday innit! www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn...

This Saturday May 9th! The General Strike in #Hackney. Free event: 4pm at Hackney Archives, with @pasttensehistories.bsky.social as part of Hackney History Festival. #GeneralStrike100 www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn...

"The history of London's squat cafes: Chaos in the Streets. Order in the Kitchen" ! Chris (56a Infoshop) on squat cafes and their discontents (😍) in @vittles.bsky.social: substack.com/home/post/p-...

The 1926 General Strike: What happened in London? An incomplete roundup. We have loads more research we’ve done on various areas of the capital to add to this but just haven’t had time. We’ll flag it up when we get a minute to type/edit! wp.me/p74yfw-uk

RIP Ben Morea (1941-2026), still a motherfucker libcom.org/article/agai...

RIP Ben Morea, anarcho-surrealist legend who never stopped spreading the good word on what art could do as a form of struggle. open.spotify.com/episode/1qcZ...

www.mixcloud.com/otwradio/on-... <<< Prince Far I special edition of On The Wire, lads.

It is, I hope it's obvious to say, entirely reasonable for a politician to criticize the police, in actual fact their moral duty www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Imagine the headlines if – in somewhere like Russia or China – a senior lawyer faced a secret trial and potentially imprisonment for expertly representing a client and, against the odds, aiding in their acquittal for serious criminal charges. This secret trial is happening at 10.30 today in London.

My favourite thing about Hasek is that he was sacked from writing a nature column for a magazine. Because he had been inventing animals for it. 😂

#OnThisDay in London murderous history, 1994 - Kwanzele Siziba dies falling from Hoxton tower block, fleeing in fear of immigration detention. pasttense.co.uk/2023/04/27/t...

Come to this, it will be good.

Still time (just about!) to support this crowdfunder for a radical bookshop in Newcastle. An excellent cause:

'Soft Cell' is short for Microsoft Excel

35 years on @BBC6Music is celebrating release of @MassiveAttackUK 1st album. In 1991 BBC made the group change name because of Gulf War. 30,000 Iraqis were killed by US with British support - sounds familiar. I was in NHS at time opposing the war history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2021/02/no-b...

As you can see in our super-professional promo-graphics, we have a new audio setup in the PRAXIS SHOP, so it's possible again to listen to records. ALSO: Most records now have an embedded player (Bandcamp/Soundcloud/Youtube) in the online shop as well: shop.praxis-records.net/vinyl/

I will beintroducing my new New Cross book at the 'Nunhead and District Municipal Museum' (80 Gellatly Road) with a short informal talk at 2 pm this afternoon. Also if you've never been to this annual pop up temple of kitsch you are missing out www.telegraphhillfestival.org.uk/events/the-n...

Searching for London’s Irish dance halls in churches and shisha bars open.substack.com/pub/relicsof... <<< This is a great read and is also a naturally a lovely history of some of the gig venues people of a certain age frequented in the 1980s... recommended!

A look back at 2025 in lists: sales in the Praxis store, downloads on bandcamp, streams on soundcloud, most watched videos on youtube and most read Datacide articles: praxis-records.net/charts-2025/

A great evening with Stephen Mallinder in conversation with Nicholas Ballet at the ICA. Lots of ground covered but especially the Cabs’ films and imagery. He was unusually insightful and reflective compared to many musicians of his generation. Respect is due.

Reggae tune ID: I'm guessing early eighties. Lyrics, possibly in a sing-jay style, about 'everybody want the same thing don't they...' which then lists such things, including... 'Everybody wanna watch the match on Saturday..' Any ideas?

xylitol.bandcamp.com/album/blumen... <<< “Krautrock-infused jungle is playing… and the beer is open.” The sun shines. The weekend looms. There is a fresh Xylitol album courtesy of @bunnyhausen.bsky.social 🌞 🌞 🌞

New #RadicalHistory event: “Not a thing was moving”: the 1926 General Strike in Hackney and beyond Sat 9 May 2026 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Hackney Archives, Dalston Square, E8 3BQ. radicalhistoryfaction.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/e... #History

Rockers don't stop! There were so many leftover notes, leads and one-offs from The Wire’s Augustus Pablo Primer that I put together this extra list of the obscure, overshadowed, eccentric, or simply unknown www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Catch Xylitol @bunnyhausen.bsky.social in the latest issue of @electronicsound.bsky.social

Two events coming up in Telegraph Hill Festival this month - a New Cross music history walk, and a talk on 'New Cross from fields to factories in the 19th century' + first chance to buy new book 'New Cross, New Cross: a cultural history of SE14'. Details here: transpont.blogspot.com/2026/03/tele...

Nominating the Winston Churchill fiver for an episode of @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social is today’s accelerationist ragebait task.

Whoops, messed up the screenshot. Was meant to start with this part

Great article. I particularly liked(?) this part, about the way manosphere talking points were used to justify the shooting of Renée Good at the very highest levels of the US gov. Reactions that say "duh, the right was always misogynist!" while not untrue, miss the point. This is escalating

Very sad, Young Dot was in Woofah issue 1 when he must have been a teenager. There was a beautiful mournful undercurrent in his early mixtapes which nobody else was doing really.

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sorry your holiday in the legal slavery zone run by the mad kings was ruined. maybe consider cleethorpes next year?

#OtD 1 Mar 1921 16,000 people met in Kronstadt, Russia, which passed a 15-point resolution condemning the new Bolshevik dictatorship and calling for all power to the soviets and freedom of press and assembly for workers and peasants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8109...