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The Blackshirts in Kingston Project

 Collection
Reference code: 180

Scope and Contents

Documentation recording the activities of the Kingston-upon-Thames Branch of the British Union of Fascists from 1932 to 1941. This collection was compiled as part of a project undertaken by Jeffrey Wallder, a member of the Friends of Oswald Mosley. The original project is held by Kingston Museums and Heritage Service Archive, and another copy is held by the Imperial War Museum. It is intended "to record and study the activities of the Kingston-upon-Thames branch of the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists during the period of its existence from 1932 to 1940".

Itemised list:

180/1 Written Study: includes a short biography of Oswald Mosley and his part in the British Union of Fascists movement. Interviews were recorded between 1982 and 1992. Typescript.

180/2 Pictorial Study: includes photographs from the private albums of former BU members Florence Elliott, John Nicholls and Bryan Donovan. 1935 - 1941.

180/3 Documentary Study: includes local and national newspaper reports relating to Kingston-upon-Thames, 1935 - 1941.

180/4 Interview: an interview, carried out on September 9th, 1992, with Blanche Greaves, the former Womens District Leader for Kingston from 1934 to 1940. At the time of the interview she was 76 years old and living in the West Country, having originally joined the Blackshirts in Kingston at the age of 18. Double audio-cassette.A transcript of this interview is available. See British Union Collection, 5/14

180/5 Street-map of Kingston and District: undated, circa mid-20th century.

180/6 Further documentation assembled since the original study of 1995, April 2003.

Dates

  • Creation: 1932 - 2003

Conditions Governing Access

Available to all researchers, by appointment

Copyright

Variously according to document

Extent

1 Box(es)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

As received

Custodial History

Donated by Jeffrey Walder via the Department of History.

Related Materials

British Union Collection

Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Western Bank Library
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
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