Brixton Prison Archives

Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

‘Pride, Prejudice and Peckham’ – John Beckett from Labour MP to Nazi apologist

Nov

2016

I have been looking into the murky waters of the history of the far right in South London. One of the more depressing specimens is John Beckett (1894-1964).After the First World War, in which he served, Beckett joined the left wing Independent Labour Party and after a period as a Hackney councillor he became the ...

Cornelius Cardew in New Cross, and a ballad of East Street

Jun

2015

'Cornelius Cardew (1936-81): a life unfinished' by John Tilbury (Copula, 2008) is a monumental biography of the radical composer by one of his closest collaborators. Its 1100 pages document in close detail Cardew's musical and political life, cut short at the age of 45 when he was hit by a car in East London.Cardew became ...

Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

‘Pride, Prejudice and Peckham’ – John Beckett from Labour MP to Nazi apologist

Cornelius Cardew in New Cross, and a ballad of East Street