Up All Night by Imogen Willetts review – a seductive history of going out
From 18th-century pleasure gardens to Studio 54, the story of nightlife in all its hedonistic – and political – gloryIn this fabulous alternative history of the modern world, the academic and “party historian” Imogen Willetts looks at the last 500 years of civilisation through the sometimes blurry lenses of its after-dark scenes, with fascinating results. She begins by trying to capture what it feels like to go on a big night out, focusing on a phenomenon that, in 1912, the sociologist Émile Durkheim…
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