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Scope and Contents Audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with mostly Jewish refugees and internees in Britain of the Nazi and World War II era. Interviews are undated but were conducted prior to 1980 and relate to the period 1933-1947.The collection consists of 168 cassettes tapes of interviews with 77 individuals (both men and women), and transcripts of 41 of those interviews. Those interviewed are mainly Jewish refugees (including individuals of mixed race or Jewish extraction), though a...

Scope and Contents A collection of documents, published and unpublished, relating to the political movements associated with Sir Oswald Mosley - the New Party, the British Union of Fascists (later called the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists, or British Union), and the Union Movement, between circa 1925 to 1996. This collection was originally assembled to support research and teaching on political movements in 20th century Britain at the University of Sheffield, principally within...

Scope and Contents Please note that this collection consists of material that is strongly anti-semitic in nature. The collection contains both published and unpublished material apparently compiled by an individual, thought to be F.T. Cooper, a cartoonist associated with the Imperial Fascist League, and mainly dates from the 1930s. It includes the English language version of the World Service issued by the Nazis in the 1930s. For further details of this collection, please see the...

Scope and Contents The archive consists of documents and correspondence relating to internment under Defence Regulation 18B during WWII, assembled by Professor A.W. Brian Simpson during the writing of his book 'In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention Without Trial in Wartime Britain' (Clarendon Press, 1992). A large proportion of the collection are photocopies of primary source material held elsewhere, such as The National Archives (UK). (PRO) indicates copies of documents supplied by the Public...

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A developing collection of books on the history of fascism on the continent of Europe and beyond in the twentieth century.

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Scope and Contents A collection of published and unpublished documents relating to Fascism and other right-wing movements in 20th century Britain up to the period of the demise of the Union Movement, but including critical and biographical material published after the period. It includes a number of rare pamphlets, and includes for the most part documents produced by the British Union of Fascists before 1940, as well as more overtly anti-Semitic material produced by organisations such as the Sons of Liberty...

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A developing collection of books on the history of the Jewish Holocaust in Europe in the early 1940s.

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Scope and Contents Papers from the life of Howard Biggs (1917-1994), mainly from the years of his schooldays, to just after the Second World War. The material consists of letters (some with transcriptions), diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and leaflets; there are also items from and about members of his family from previous generations.The final sections of the Papers contain material relating to Biggs’ father (Edgar Arnold Biggs, 1887-1943), his aunt (Ethel Bright Ashford, 1883-1980),...

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Documents, correspondence, books, and journals belonging to the politician John Beckett. Also includes files of research material assembled by his son, the journalist Francis Beckett, during the writing of a biography of his father 'The Rebel Who Lost His Cause' (1999).

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Scope and Contents A collection of documents related to William Joyce and Cecil Courtney Lewis, including material collected by Lewis relating to the British Union of Fascists (BUF). The collection appears to have belonged to C.C. Lewis, a solicitor who acted as Oswald Mosley's legal adviser, and is noteworthy in that it contains five letters to Lewis in the hand of William Joyce. It also includes extensive annotations to Lewis' manuscript exercises on matters of current political interest, also by...

Scope and Contents Two scrapbooks compiled by Douglas Peroni, an active member of the British Union of Fascists. The first scrapbook was compiled between 1935 and 1938 and comprises mainly news cuttings about Oswald Mosley and fascist activities in the London area; the second dates from 1949 to 1950 and consists principally of press cuttings documenting the post-war activities of Mosley and his supporters. Also included is a remand card for Douglas Peroni’s internment under Defence Regulation 18B in 1940, and...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of assorted research materials relating to Oswald Mosley and Fascism between 1932 and 1955 which were assembled by Peter Pugh during work for his PhD entitled “A Political Biography of Alexander Raven Thomson”, which was completed in 2003 at the University of Sheffield. The collection includes correspondence, questionnaires, photocopies, research notes and sound recordings. There is also a small collection of books and reprints.For further details of this...

Scope and Contents The administrative files of the Dorset West District of the British Union of Fascists and of the Dorchester Constituency of Union Movement, and other correspondence of Robert Saunders, mainly 1935 to 1952; together with some books and pamphlets.In the extent of its coverage this collection appears to be a unique survival: it includes the almost complete administrative files (at least for the period 1935 to 1952) of a District of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF)...

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The collection consists of documents, correspondence, articles and research notes collected and created by Dr Stephen Dorril, of the University of Huddersfield, when researching his book “Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism”, published in 2006.

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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. 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...

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A collection of research material from various archives compiled by Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, historian, author and university academic, covering the social history of twentieth-century Germany, and Nazism and the Third Reich. Part B of the catalogue also contains research material in medieval history.

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A collection of books from the personal library of Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, historian, author and university academic, covering a wide range of historical subjects including medieval history, the social history of twentieth-century Germany, and Nazism and the Third Reich.

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The personal library of Lazar Zaidman, reflecting his interests in anti-Fascism, Jewish matters, politics and economics before, during and after World War II.

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