Fascism

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Scope and Contents A collection of documents, published and unpublished, relating to the political movements associated with Sir Oswald Mosley - the New Party, the British Union of Fascists (later called the British Union of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...

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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The collection contains both published and unpublished material apparently compiled by an individual, thought to be F.T. Cooper, a cartoonist associated with the Imperial Fascist League, and mainly dates from the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.

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.

For further details of this collection please see the listings in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents A collection of published and unpublished documents relating to Fascism and other right-wing movements in 20th century Britain up to the period of the demise of the Union Movement, but including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.

For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents Papers of Howard Biggs (1917-1994), mainly from the years of his schooldays, to just after the Second World War. Howard Biggs was a member of the British Union of Fascist in the 1930s, and was interned during the Second World War under Defence Regulation 18B. 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 generation including his father,...

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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).

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below

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...