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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: RACISM AND FASCISM Volume 3 BRITISH FASCISM This page intentionally left blank BRITISH FASCISM Essays on the Radical Right in Inter-War Britain Edited by KENNETH LUNN AND RICHARD C. THURLOW Firstpublishedin1980byCroomHelmLimited Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2016 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1980KennethLunnandRichardC.Thurlow Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilised inanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownor hereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformation storageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-138-93422-1(Set) ISBN:978-1-315-66966-3(Set)(ebk) ISBN:978-1-138-94038-3(Volume3)(hbk) ISBN:978-1-315-67438-4(Volume3)(ebk) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwouldwelcome correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. BRITISH FASCISM ESSAYS ON THE RADICAL RIGHT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN Edited by KENNETH LUNN AND RICHARD C.THURLOW ¥ CROOM HELM LONDON ©1980 Kenneth Lunn and Richard C. Thurlow Croom Helm Limited, 2-10 St John’s Road, London SW11 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data British fascism. 1. F ascism - Great Britain - History I. Lunn, Kenneth II. Thurlow, Richard C. 320.5’33’0941 DA566.7 ISBN 0-85664-874-4 Reproduced from copy supplied printed and bound in Great Britain by Billing and Sons Limited Guildford, London, Oxford, Worcester CONTENTS Preface 1. Introduction Kenneth Lunn and Richard C. Thurlow 9 Part I: Precursors and Parallel Movements 19 2. Political Anti-semitism Before 1914: Fascism’s Heritage? Kenneth Lunn 20 3. Henry Hamilton Beamish and the Britons: Champions of Anti-semitism Gisela C. Lebzelter 41 4. Arnold Leese and the Imperial Fascist League: the Impact of Racial Fascism John Morell 57 Part II: The British Union of Fascists 77 5. Reflections on Mosley and British Fascism Robert Skidelsky 78 6. The Return of Jeremiah: the Rejected Knowledge of Sir Oswald Mosley in the 1930s Richard C. Thurlow 100 7. Anti-semitism and the BUF Colin Holmes 114 8. The BUF, the Metropolitan Police and Public Order John Stevenson 135 9. The Membership of the British Union of Fascists Stuart Rawnsley 150 Part III: Wider Context 167 10. The Contribution of British Intellectuals to Fascism Paul Hayes 168 11. Changing Interpretations of British Fascism: a Bibliographical Survey Philip Rees 187 12. Post-war Fascism? Neill Nugent 205 Index 228 This page intentionally left blank PREFACE As editors, we wish first and foremost to recognise the efforts of the contributors, who produced their essays within the strict confines which we offered them. Much praise is due for the typing to Beverley Eaton, Beryl Moore and Irene Thurlow and to Sybil Lunn for con structing the index. We are also grateful to our colleagues, Colin Holmes and David Martin, in the Department of Economic and Social History at Sheffield University for their professional criticism and advice. Fihally, to the publishers we owe our thanks for their original accept ance of what was, at first, a fairly tenuous concept, for their patience with various delays to the manuscript and for the appearance of this volume. June 1979 Kenneth Lunn Richard C. Thurlow
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