Music & Subculture

Grime is a Black-British music genre that gives the youth a sense of belonging and a global audience

How have gospel choirs from east London contributed to the UK’s musical soundscape?

These 10 records reflect the strong crossovers between dub and London as a centre of music production

What is dub? And what makes dub reggae an intrinsic part of London’s soundscape

Sporting long jackets and quiffs, the Teds were born in London

Photographs from a stylish, scooter-riding 1960s scene

This Croydon-born cultural titan has used his enormous success to challenge inequality

One of the most successful sopranos of the 1800s, Patti gained fame, wealth and a castle in Wales

A Russian-born star who took the world by storm in the early 1900s

One of the most talented, but long overlooked, photographers of 20th-century Britain

A leading lady on the London stage in the early 1900s

Growing up in the 1970s and 80s, Wendy Shearer shares her memories of the Notting Hill Carnival

Handel at Vauxhall? Mozart at Ranelagh? For 18th-century music fans, these were the places to be

The punk pioneers who defined a generation

How do you represent something as multifaceted, vibrant and anarchic as the punk scene in a museum?

Their boutique at 430 King’s Road brought creativity – and controversy – to 1970s fashion

Ready to relive the beat? Two Londoners take a nostalgic trip down 1990s rave culture

A pioneering LGBTQ+ ultradisco and a home of UK queer rave subculture