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VG+ with usual signs of wear.
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The Wire Magazine
2 days ago
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...
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Steve Barrow (29 September 1945–30 May 2026) - The Wire
Steve Barker gives a personal appreciation of the reggae historian and label runner who has died aged 80.
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/steve-barrow-29-september-1945-30-may-2026
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Manasseh productions from the 2000s were something very special.
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social
5 days ago
#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.
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This is a lovely find!
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Daniel Trilling
7 days ago
Great conversation with the UK's best political ideas podcast... listen below or give them a follow at
www.patreon.com/poltheoryother
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House of Reggae
13 days ago
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
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Derek Walmsley
13 days ago
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.
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RIP to a legend and inspiration.
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social
15 days ago
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...
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Not a thing was moving”: the 1926 General Strike in Hackney and beyond
YouTube video by Hackney History Festival
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ap8lPJzlAF8&pp=0gcJCVMCo7VqN5tDiggCQAE%3D&ra=m
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Mikey Dread - Break Down The Walls
YouTube video by runitselectah
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JxlSQRbYobA
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Ali Catterall
24 days ago
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!
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Kate Crowe
28 days ago
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...
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Bass Clef / Myriad Myriads
28 days ago
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
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social
29 days ago
#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...
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Who Killed Aseta Simms? 1972
A small (A6ish) pamphlet published by the Black Unity and Freedom Party in 1972. Also available as a PDF here. There is an overview of the history of the BUFP by Professor Harry Goulbourne here. Ke…
https://hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/who-killed-aseta-simms-1972/
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Ill Will
about 1 month ago
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...
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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!)
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about 1 month ago
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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
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about 1 month ago
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Come to our talk this Saturday innit!
www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn...
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about 1 month ago
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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...
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about 1 month ago
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The People's Papers
about 1 month ago
"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-...
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The history of London's squat cafes
Chaos in the Streets. Order in the Kitchen. Chris Jones on squat cafes and their discontents
https://substack.com/home/post/p-195740814
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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
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The 1926 General Strike: What happened in London? An incomplete roundup
2026 note Past Tense are hard at work revising and updating this account, who we’ll add to, hopefully by Mayday 2026! It might appear in a different form, on this blog and/or elsewhere. Any info …
https://wp.me/p74yfw-uk
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Endnotes
about 1 month ago
RIP Ben Morea (1941-2026), still a motherfucker
libcom.org/article/agai...
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Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! - Interview with Ben Morea
Morea talks of the 1960s Black Mask and Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! groups and their activities - such as busting into the Pentagon during an anti-war protest, and "assassinating" a famous poet....
https://libcom.org/article/against-wall-motherfucker-interview-ben-morea
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Happy Hour at Hippel's
about 1 month ago
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...
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A Life in Rebellion: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, Black Mask, and the Surrealist Struggle in 1960-70s New York
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1qcZinrkOKtxzC6rVa9kNk?si=-24MBoy2SOWUYnQMbhDxwg
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<<< Prince Far I special edition of On The Wire, lads.
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On The Wire - 3rd May 2026
https://www.mixcloud.com/otwradio/on-the-wire-3rd-may-2026/
about 1 month ago
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Xylitol / DJ Bunnyhausen
about 1 month ago
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...
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BBC obtains Northamptonshire Police video of woman's arrest
Nadine Buzzard-Quashie speaks for first time about her
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yxley0pp5o
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Netpol
about 1 month ago
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.
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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. 😂
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about 1 month ago
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
#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...
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Today in London murderous policing history, 1994: Kwanzele Siziba dies falling from Hoxton tower block
Just two weeks ago a man fell to his death from a balcony in Peckham, after police fired a Taser at him as he threatened to jump. The dead man, not yet named, fell several floors to the ground. He …
https://pasttense.co.uk/2023/04/27/today-in-london-murderous-policing-history-1994-kwanzele-siziba-dies-falling-from-hoxton-tower-block/
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Come to this, it will be good.
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about 1 month ago
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hannah
about 1 month ago
Still time (just about!) to support this crowdfunder for a radical bookshop in Newcastle. An excellent cause:
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Citizen Helene / Galaxy Brain
about 2 months ago
'Soft Cell' is short for Microsoft Excel
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Transpontine
2 months ago
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...
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Noise & Politics
2 months ago
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/
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Transpontine
2 months ago
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...
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The Nunhead and District Museum Open Studio - Telegraph Hill Festival
One of London’s largest independently produced festivals
https://www.telegraphhillfestival.org.uk/events/the-nunhead-and-district-museum-open-studio/
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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!
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Searching for London’s Irish dance halls in churches and shisha bars
A geographical investigation of the Galtymore nostalgia complex
https://open.substack.com/pub/relicsoflondon/p/searching-for-londons-irish-dance?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
2 months ago
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Noise & Politics
3 months ago
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/
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Sales, Downloads, Streams, Mixes and Videos in 2025! - Praxis
Charts 2025 of the most read articles on Datacide, best sellers in the Praxis shop and most listened to music.
https://praxis-records.net/charts-2025/
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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.
3 months ago
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Stagger Lee
3 months ago
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?
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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
🌞 🌞 🌞
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Blumenfantasie, by Xylitol
10 track album
https://xylitol.bandcamp.com/album/blumenfantasie
3 months ago
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John Levin
3 months ago
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
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Event: the 1926 General Strike in Hackney and beyond – May 9th 2026
“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. A talk by Radical History Faction as part of…
https://radicalhistoryfaction.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/event-the-1926-general-strike-in-hackney-and-beyond-may-9th-2026/
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Derek Walmsley
3 months ago
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...
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Augustus Pablo: More rockers from the vaults - The Wire
To accompany his Primer on Augustus Pablo in The Wire 506, Derek Walmsley compiles a selection of the Jamaican melodica wizard's lesser known cuts
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/augustus-pablo-more-rockers-from-the-vaults
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Planet Mu Records
3 months ago
Catch Xylitol
@bunnyhausen.bsky.social
in the latest issue of
@electronicsound.bsky.social
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Transpontine
3 months ago
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...
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Nominating the Winston Churchill fiver for an episode of
@cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social
is today’s accelerationist ragebait task.
3 months ago
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Annie Kelly
3 months ago
Whoops, messed up the screenshot. Was meant to start with this part
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Annie Kelly
3 months ago
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
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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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3 months ago
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Sleepless
3 months ago
#bandcampfriday
codes: 3nh6-57kt 55q2-b5z7 g88d-xuyv jm26-jjq3 6rmk-ygys nxbt-7unl lev2-vvvj 48b5-k8ty lrtv-u7hg byav-7ly3 u2c9-5nzt tunn-cqeu tmam-xt2p xjau-vjmj hg7a-6gyy j2wr-ku7f 9lj5-yqqm ncgf-79gg g9wj-7tvq avq2-bek7 898d-xutv 22nc-vpf9
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1999 (Unreleased), by Shadow Dancer
32 track album
https://shadowdancermusic.bandcamp.com/album/1999-unreleased
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the very cunty caterpillar
3 months ago
sorry your holiday in the legal slavery zone run by the mad kings was ruined. maybe consider cleethorpes next year?
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Working Class History
3 months ago
#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...
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