‘Not Going Home’: The new book that captures the aftermath of 90s partying

The 1990s in Britain were synonymous with partying into the small hours, and a new photobook offers a unique insight into how clubbers were feeling when the sun finally came up.

Not Going Home is the brainchild of British Culture Archive Photographer Mischa Haller and documents the summer of 1998 as Haller travelled across the UK to chronicle clubbers and partygoers in the small hours of the morning. The idea was to show what it felt like to be young, up all night in that slightly woozy, surreal state.

It’s the first photobook from the British Culture Archive’s publishing programme and it offers a unique insight into that twilight zone period when clubbers are having to readjust to normality after a night of reckless abandon.

“I was interested in the time between the nightclub closing and people going home, those one or two hours when the rest of the world is asleep, but clubbers are carrying on,” said Haller.

“These moments hang in the memory – eating, smoking, chatting, making a fire on the beach or meeting someone new.”

The whole book is out now, but these above photos show exactly what it meant to be part of that era.