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

Websites with information:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/special/specalphae

Finding aids:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/special/bunion

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/special/bunion

http://cdm15847.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15847coll6/id/106/rec/2

http://cdm15847.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15847coll6/id/106

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.517801!/file/BUCall.pdf

[0384] British Union of Fascists (BUF) Collection

Location: Labour History Archive and Study Centre, People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER, England

Description: The Labour Party archives contain replies to a series of questionnaires sent in 1934 to all constituency parties relating to local fascist activity, as well as copies of Blackshirt; several copies of 10 Points of Fascism; Fascism and Agriculture (British Union of Fascists, 1933); and The Fascist (Imperial Fascist League), No. 61, June 1934. The Archive of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) contains a large amount of material relating to the BUF, plus leaflets from other or unknown fascist organisations, including the Imperial Fascist League and the Nationalist Association; cuttings about anti-fascist and fascist demonstrations at Olympia, Hyde Park and Cable Street, among others; and fascist material from the 1980s, including leaflets, pamphlets etc from various fascist groups including the Racial Preservation Society, the National Socialist Movement, the National Front, National Party, British National Party, Board of Deputies of Jewish Control, and National Front Ex-Servicemen's Association. Leaflets include one entitled 'Jews take away the Britishers Jobs' (1930s) (CP/CENT/SUBJ/04/01). There is also a pamphlet collection containing several dozen pamphlets.

Reference:

Daniel Tilles, British Fascist Antisemitism and Jewish Responses, 1932-40 (London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).

Websites with information:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=394-cp_1&cid=1-67-9-10#1-67-9-10

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=394-lp_1-4&cid=1-3-6-8-3#1-3-6-8-3

http://www.phm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/1-British-Union-of-Fascists1.pdf

http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/sources

[0385] British Union of Fascists detainees list; 1939-1945, AMS 6702

Location: East Sussex Record Office, The Keep, Woollards Way, Brighton BN1 9BP, England

Description: Listing of people detained under Defence Regulation 18B which allowed British citizens to be imprisoned without charge or the right of appeal if the Home Secretary felt that their liberty was putting security at risk. The majority of people detained were members of either the British Union of Fascists or the National Socialists and a disproportionately large number came from Sussex. The list was compiled in 2001 by John Warburton and Jeffrey Wallder.

Websites with information:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/2006/06digests/politics.htm

Finding aid:

http://www.thekeep.info/collections/getrecord/GB179_AMS6702

[0386] British Union of Fascists [Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Leaflets, etc] (1932-39)—Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection W.P.5322, Guard book spine:; Tracts on fascism

Location: British Library, 96 Euston Rd London, Greater London NW1 2DB, England

Description: Pamphlets and leaflets range from those written by Mosley himself, with general themes, such as 10 Points of Fascism in 1933, to anti-Semitic rhetoric like The Apotheosis of the Jew from Ghetto to Park Lane (1937), written by A.K. Chesterton, director of publicity and propaganda for the party. Other pamphlets and leaflets include Open letter from Oswald Mosley (1932); Membership Form (1932); Join the British Union of Fascists (1932); Taxation and the People, by Oswald Mosley (ca. 1937); British Union Foreign Policy, by Capt. Robert Gordon-Canning; Mind Britain's Business (ca. 1937); Fascism in Britain, by Oswald Mosley (1933); British Union for British Race, by Oswald Mosley; 10 Points (1937); Ten Points of Fascist Policy, by Oswald Mosley; Read and Enrol (1937); Blackshirts Back Mosley Because Mosley Backs Britain (1937); Are You British? Then You Must be Fascist (1937); Support Fascism and Save the Fishermen (1937); Trade Unionists! You are the Victims (1937); Big Boy Bevin! (1937); "...then Atheistic Communism will come," by Colan (1937); The British Union Stands for Trade Unionism; Follow Mosley (1937); Dockers! Nothing has been done (1937); British Union and the Transport Workers (1937); The Miners' Only Hope; Blackshirt Policy Alone can save the Coal-fields (1937); The Empire and the British Union (1937); The Simple Jewish Worker (verse, 1937); Sing the Marching Song with the Blackshirts (1937); Big Fish and the Little Fish, by A. Raven Thomson; Finance, Democracy and the Shopkeeper (1937); Jews & Reds Cause the Trouble, by Dan Chatter (1937); To Every Briton; If You Love Our Country (1937); British Union and the Transport Workers (1937); What Jews Did in the W- (partial pamphlet, 1937); The British Union and The Jews, by E. G. Clarke (1937); 'Gainst Trust & Monopoly! by F. D. Hill; Shopkeepers Action (1937); Pharmacy in British Union (1937); Britain and Jewry (1938); Break the Chains That Bind Us, by A. Raven Thomson; Our Financial Masters, by A. Raven Thomson (1937); March to Sanity, by Maj.-Gen J.F.C. Fuller (1937); The Land and the People, by Jorian Jenks; British Union Agricultural Policy (1937); The Inward Strength of a National Socialist, by Capt. Robert Gordon-Canning (1938); Is Lancashire Doomed? (1938); ARP--Be Prepared! (ca. 1939); British Union and Social Credit, by W.K.A.J. Chambers-Hunter (ca. 1939); Menace of the Chain Stores, by Peter Heyward (ca. 1939); Labour's Peace Policy, by Michael Goulding (ca. 1939); The Coming Corporate State, by A. Raven Thomson (ca. 1939); The Holy Land: Arab or Jew? by Capt. R. Gordon-Canning (1938) [online at https://ia600606.us.archive.org/16/items/ArabOrJew/FullPagePhoto.pdf]; Towards Freedom, by H.W. Kenyon; and Trade Unionism, Its History and Future (ca. 1939).

Websites with information:

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/Pamphlets%20and%20Ephemera%20at%20the%20British%20Library_tcm8-23419.pdf

[0387] Collection of British Union of Fascists Newspapers, Reference: MS784

Location: Special Collections Department, Cadbury Research Library, Muirhead Tower (Lower Ground Floor), University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, England

Description: This newspaper collection comprises three different British Union of Fascists newspapers: 'Action', 'Fascist Week, and 'The Blackshirt'. The newspapers reported on activities of the British Union of Fascists in the UK, leading up to, and during the first part of the Second World War. All the newspapers had a regular feature by, or about, Oswald Mosley. The advent of the Second World War, and the internment of Mosley and many other active fascists in Britain on 23 May 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B, had a big impact on the production of the newspapers. 'The Blackshirt' ceased publication in 1939, and the last edition of 'Action' was 6 June 1940.

Websites with information:

http://calmview.bham.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=XMS784

Finding aid:

http://calmview.bham.ac.uk/GetDocument.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=MS784.pdf

[0388] The British Union of Fascists: newspapers and secret files [digital collection]

Description: This collection consists of ten series: 1. Action, with Action nos. 1 (February 21 1936)-222 (June 6, 1940). Action was the official organ of the British Union. 2. The Blackshirt, with Blackshirt nos. 1 (February 1933)-261 (May 1939). From 1 June 1934, it incorporated the short-lived periodical, The Fascist Week, and became styled "The official organ of the British Union of Fascists" until the launch of Action. 3. The East London Pioneer (1936-1937). 4. Fascist Week (Nov. 1933-May 1934). 5. Miscellaneous papers of BUF members, deposited in the Imperial War Museum relate to members of the British Union of Fascists during the period between 1933 and the end of the Second World War, including Captain H.W. Luttman-Johnson, one of the founders of the 'January Club'; William Joyce, the British Union of Fascists' Director of Propaganda; J. Macnab; R. Ling; as well as the manuscript of Margaret Heard's book, 'Stepping stones to Austria', describing her life as the wife of an interned half-German member of the BUF. 6. Defense Regulation 18B, Advisory Committee papers: Sir Oswald Mosley. 7. WAR: Defence Regulation 18B detainee: Mosley, Sir Oswald. 8. Right-wing extremists: Sir Oswald Mosley/Lady Mosley. 9. Prison Dept.: registered papers (Series 2), and 10. Miscellaneous papers on Mosley's release.