Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

Finding aid:

http://www.filsonhistorical.org/archive/guide1.html

[0376c] British authors collection, 1840-1953, M0121

Location: Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Green Library, Stanford University, 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Description: Correspondence, literary manuscripts, commonplace books, autographs, and photographs. Includes letters by Hilaire Belloc, Rudyard Kipling, and Rebecca West.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf758005h4/entire_text/

[0377] British Cartoon Archive [cartoons; digital collection]

Location: Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NU, England

Description: The British Cartoon Archive holds the artwork for more than 150,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines. Cartoons on British Union of Fascists, Conservative Party, T. S. Eliot, immigration, Oswald Mosley, Enoch Powell, race relations, and Margaret Thatcher.

Finding aid:

http://www.cartoons.ac.uk

[0378] British Election Campaign Material, 1949-1974, GB 427 BEC

Location: University Archives and Special Collections, The Library, University of Salford, The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WT, UK

Description: This collection was originally assembled by the Conservative Party Central Office, consists of thousands of election leaflets, posters, newspaper articles, and other materials issued by candidates in the run-up to general and by-elections in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from 1949 to February 1974. Various constituencies are included. Although the majority of the material relates to the three main political parties, Conservative, Labour, and Liberal, it also includes material from other candidates, including representatives of Communist, Plaid Cymru, Scottish National Party (SNP), and Unionist parties.

Finding aids:

http://www.library.salford.ac.uk/resources/special/election.xml

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb427-bec

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb427-bec.txt

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb427-bec.pdf

[0379] British Fascist, Anti-Fascist, and Anti-Semitic Printed Ephemera Collection, circa 1905-1963, MS 1886

Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University, 128 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520

Description: Collection of materials documenting British fascist, anti-fascist, and anti-Semitic political movements in the mid-twentieth century. Includes pamphlets, leaflets, and serially published newspapers and magazines produced by organizations such as the British Empire Union, British League, British Union of Fascists, H. R. Hoffmann, Imperial Fascist League, National Socialist League, National Workers' Party of Great Britain (Graham Seton Hutchison), and New Europe Group.

Finding aids:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1886

http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/mssa:ms.1886/PDF

[0380] British National Party Election Ephemera 1995-1996, COLL MISC 1021

Location: London School of Economics Library, Archives Division, Lionel Robbins Building, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD, England

Description: The British National Party (BNP) was founded by John Tyndall in 1982 as an offshoot of the National Front and was later headed by headed by its National Chairman Nick Griffin. The BNP aims to ensure that the "British people retain their homeland and identity" through such measures as the halt to all further immigration, opposition to the single European Currency, and the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports. Contains British National Party election ephemera, De Beauvoir Ward, London Borough of Hackney, June 1996, and British Nationalist (newsletter), April 1995.

Websites with information:

http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/archives/handlists/

http://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=COLL+MISC+1021

http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=5859&inst_id=1&nv1=browse&nv2=corp

Finding aids:

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb97-collmisc1021.txt

http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/archives/handlists/BNP/BNP.html

https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/ead-display/-/ead/pl/aicode/GB-97/type/fa/id/GB+0097+COLL+­MI

SC+1021

[0381] British political campaign posters and broadsides, circa 1935-circa 1945s, BANC PIC 2005.006 [digital collection]

Location: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Description: Chiefly campaign posters from the 1935-1936 British elections and post-war election in 1945. Includes several National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations posters.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/hb409nb6wc/entire_text/

[0382] British Radical Pamphlets

Location: National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Description: The principal collection of British radical pamphlets of the twentieth century held in the Library was purchased from Guernsey Books of St Peter Port, Guernsey, in 1972. While the great bulk of the publications are left wing in varying degrees, some were issued by extreme right-wing organisations such as the National Front, National Pure Water Association, Racial Preservation Society, and the Yorkshire Campaign to Stop Immigration.

References: See 20th century British radicalism: a collection of 3227 original pamphlets, etc. / [assembled by Guernsey Books. Index] (St. Peter Port: Guernsey, 1972).

Websites with information:

http://www.nla.gov.au/selected-library-collections/british-radical-pamphlets

[0383] British Union Collection, c. 1925-1996, Ref: Special Collection

Location: Special Collections, The University Library, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK

Description: 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. Series 1. Journals, contains copies of Action [1931; New Party journal]; the following British Union journals: Fascist Quarterly, British Union Quarterly, Fascist Week, Action [1936-1940; British Union of Fascists], The Blackshirt, British Union News (incorporating "The Blackshirt"), East London Pioneer, The Age of Plenty: a journal of the new politics, and The Woman Fascist; and the following Union Movement Journals: Unity, Mosley News Letter, Union (incorporating "Action"), Action (incorporating "Union"), The East London Worker (incorporating the East London Blackshirt), The East London Blackshirt (incorporating the East London Worker), East London Action, and The European (originally titled 'The European: the analytical review', changed in April 1954 to 'The European: the journal of opposition'). Series 2. Books, contains copies of books by A.K. Chesterton, James Drennan (i.e., W.E.D. Allen), Olive Hawks, Diana Mosley, Sir Oswald Mosley, and John Strachey. Series 3. Pamphlets, contains copies of pamphlets written by John Beckett, John Beckett and Raven Thomson, A. K. Chesterton, William Joyce, Viscount Lymington, Sir Oswald Mosley, Alexander Raven Thomson, John Wynn, J.F.C. Fuller, Alfred Norris, Robert Row, and Union Movement. Sub-series 3B. Duke of Bedford material (British People's Party), contains copies of the following pamphlets by the Duke of Bedford: Total disarmament, or, an international police force. 2nd ed. (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1948); For peace and prosperity: a peace charter issued by the British Peoples Party (London: People's Post, [1940s]); Why join the British People's Party? (London: People's Post, [1945]); Co-operation for peace: speech by the Duke of Bedford. House of Lords Tuesday, 16th October, 1945. Extract from the official report (London: HMSO, [1945]); An important message from the Duke of Bedford. [An open letter stating that he has decided to restart the BPP] (London: [Bedford], [1945]); Some essays on war and peace (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1944); Conscientious objectors: speech delivered House of Lords, Tuesday, 18th January, 1944 (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1944); War aims: economic and political questions: speech delivered House of Lords, Wednesday, 8th March, 1944 (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1944); Straight speaking from a patriot to an "ostrich" (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1948); Why blunder on?: first steps in an emergency programme to end war, disease and poverty (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1942); Why not think? (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1945); Where have we got to? (Glasgow: Strickland Press, [1943?]); Hope: not dope. 2nd rev.ed. (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1945); Night bombing: is it human and effective? (Glasgow: Strickland Press, [1943]); The conscientious objector: speech delivered… House of Lords, Tuesday, 2nd March, 1943 (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1943); Propaganda for proper geese (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1944); Is this justice?: an examination of Regulation 18B (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1943); Wholesale bombing (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1944); In a nutshell (Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1951); The fate of a peace effort, by the Marquess of Tavistock (London: published by the Marquess of Tavistock, 1940). Also contains pamphlets by G. S. Oddie and an advertising leaflet for People's Post: a news and views monthly … edited by John Beckett (London: People's Post, [1940s]). Series 6. Miscellaneous documents, contains copies of The Regulation 18B British Union Detainees List. (Compiled by John Warburton; [revised by] Jeffrey Wallder. [n.p.], 1997), along with the Second issue [revised and expanded, 2001], Addition to the Second issue (2005), and Second addition to the Second issue (2007).