University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives
Ref: Special Collection
Title: British Union Collection
Scope: A collection of documents, published and unpublished, relating to the political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.
Dates: c. 1925-1996
Extent: 22 boxes
Administrative / biographical history:
This Collection has been assembled as support for both research and teaching at the
University of Sheffield, principally within the Department of History, on political movements
in 20th century Britain. It began with the acquisition of complete sets of The Fascist
Quarterly and The British Union Quarterly. Other items, including journals such as Action,
The Blackshirt, and Union, and unpublished memoirs of former members of the British
Union, together with other related material, have gradually been added.
Oswald Ernald Mosley (Sir Oswald on succeeding to the baronetcy as 6th Baronet in 1928)
was born into a landed family of Rolleston, Staffordshire in 1896, his father being Sir Oswald
Mosley, 5th Bart. After leaving Winchester School at the age of 16 he entered Sandhurst, and
following the outbreak of the First World War was commissioned into the 16th Queen’s
Light Dragoons, but then applied to join the Royal Flying Corps and was posted to the Front.
Back in England to take his pilot’s certificate his leg was injured in a flying accident. He was
recalled to his former regiment, but his damaged leg was affected by conditions in the
trenches, and he was invalided out of the war in 1916.
An able though controversial figure and a powerful orator, long considered by both
supporters and opponents as someone capable of holding high political office, Mosley’s
political career began in 1918 in a conventional way when he was selected as Unionist
candidate for Harrow, and on election entered the National party coalition led by Lloyd
George. His sympathy for the ordinary man who had fought so bravely in the trenches,
concern for social objectives and dismay at governmental waste of money led him
increasingly towards Liberal doctrines, and in November 1920 his condemnation in the
House of Commons of Black and Tan atrocities in Ireland led to his crossing the floor to sit
with the Liberals. His political career was to be strongly supported until her death in May
1933 by his wife Cynthia, daughter of Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon, whom he had married
earlier that year and who became an M.P. in her own right. When in 1924 Ramsay
MacDonald became the first Labour Party Prime Minister Mosley joined Labour as a member
of the Independent Labour Party. At the subsequent election in Ladywood, Birmingham, he
stood against the prominent Conservative Neville Chamberlain, being defeated by only 77
votes on a recount, and in 1926 he was selected as candidate for Smethwick, winning the
subsequent election on a landslide. As unemployment rose steeply at the end of the decade,
increased massively by the Depression which followed the Wall Street stock-market crash of
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1929, Mosley, as Unemployment Minister, issued his ‘Mosley Memorandum’, which argued
for the combatting of unemployment by spending money on public works, and on its
rejection by the Cabinet resigned from the Government. In 1931 Mosley, supported by
Labour dissidents, and with the use of £50,000 donated by Lord Nuffield, formed the New
Party as an attempt to address the failings of the old political parties. The first by-election in
May 1931 produced a creditable vote, but by splitting the non-Tory vote the New Party
attracted Labour hostility when the Conservatives took the seat. Following consequent
trouble at his meetings Mosley began to develop the use of stewards, and confrontations at
meetings led to a loss of electoral support, and in 1932 the New Party was closed down.
Mosley was increasingly drawn to the perceived success of Italian Fascism in solving the
serious social and economic problems of the time, in contrast to the seeming lack of purpose
of the democratic multi-party system, visiting Rome and meeting Mussolini. In October 1932
the British Union of Fascists was formally launched, a party organised on military lines
intended to reflect both the discipline and comradeship of the Armed forces experienced by
Mosley in the Great War. The new movement met with initial success and by 1934 had
attracted some 40,000 members, in addition to many thousands well disposed to it. But a
large meeting at Olympia on the 7th of June 1934 met with concerted disruption, and the
ensuing violence caused a significant reaction against the B.U.F. Organised opposition came
initially mainly from Communists, bitter rivals of Fascism in the struggle to create a new
world political order, and from Jewish groups determined to prevent Britain following
German Nazism’s strongly anti-semitic path. Increasingly, opposition attracted others who
feared the threat to democratic freedoms posed by Fascism. The obvious visual parallels with
the oppressive Nazi régime (blackshirt uniform, parades, the fascist salute, etc.) led to
growing hostility and attempts to disrupt meetings. Although the party developed strengths in
certain areas up to 1936 - the textile areas of Lancashire and Yorkshire, rural areas suffering
from agricultural depression, and the East End of London where anti-semitism often underlay
support - it failed ultimately to develop as a serious political force on the national scale.
The extent of Mosley’s personal responsibility for deliberately encouraging anti-semitism,
which existed as a ‘background’ feature in areas of British society at that time, and with
which British Union became associated as a movement, is a matter of continuing controversy.
Disorder continued to characterise some of the meetings, though often they passed off
peacefully, and organised hostility on the streets culminated in the ‘Battle of Cable Street’ in
London on October 4th 1936 when the police were unable to clear a way through a large
crowd of anti-fascist demonstrators for a planned march through the East End. At this time
Mosley married Lady Diana Mosley (the divorced Diana Guinness and one of the Mitford
sisters) in Berlin, where Hitler attended the luncheon given by Frau Goebbels. At the end of
that year the Public Order Act banned the wearing in public of uniform by members of
political movements, and in March 1937 the party was plunged into a financial crisis during
which many Headquarters staff, including William Joyce and John Beckett, were dismissed.
The ominous growth of German military power and the growing likelihood of war fuelled
hostility towards the British Union, which campaigned to keep Britain out of a European war,
yet a Peace Rally which it held at Earl’s Court in July 1939 attracted an estimated 20,000
supporters.
Though war with Germany broke out in September 1939 the British Union, in common with
pacifist and left-wing groups, was able to continue its campaign against the war policy as
before. However, following the fall of France and the invasion crisis of May 1940 Defence
Regulations 18B and then 18B (1A) were passed through Parliament by the Government,
resulting in many leading British Union members, including Mosley and his wife, being
arrested and interned without charge or trial on the grounds that they might potentially act as
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a Fifth Column of the enemy, an event regarded by those concerned as a slur on their oftenexpressed loyalty to the British state and crown. This episode, though it had in the dangerous
circumstances of the time widespread public support, was one of major civil rights
significance as it involved the imprisonment of individuals who had broken no law, and, as
Churchill came to recognise, could be justified only in the most extreme circumstances. As
the danger of invasion receded detainees were gradually released, and in November 1943
Mosley also was released from prison and placed under house arrest.
From 1945 to 1947 Mosley passed his time in farming in Wiltshire, but in February 1948,
following the publication of his book “The Alternative”, he relaunched his political career as
leader of the new Union Movement, campaigning on the slogan “Europe a Nation”. The
future would lie in cooperation between European peoples, coming together in a European
nation-state, whilst colonies in Africa would be exploited to provide the food and other
resources which Europe lacked. This policy contrasted with the programme of decolonisation
which the post-war Labour Government was determined to promote. In his post-war
movement Mosley renounced publicly both Nationalism and Anti-Semitism, whilst still
predicting the collapse of Capitalism and the coming fight against Communism. The new
party was much less militaristic in organisation than its predecessor, and repudiated the term
‘fascist’ as a description of its political identity. However, the climate of deep hostility to
Fascism which the war, widely regarded in Britain as a crusade to preserve democratic
freedoms and humane values, had engendered, ensured that the new movement never
achieved the level of success of its predecessor. As immigration from the West Indies began
to rise substantially Mosley declared the Union Movement against such immigration, and
though this policy gained some temporary support further controversy and hostility
developed. In 1953 he founded “The European” journal (which lasted until 1959), and in
1954 urged withdrawal from the Middle East, foreshadowing the Suez Crisis of 1956. But the
predicted economic collapse, which in the exhaustion and severe shortages of the post-war
period had seemed a likely development, and which would have afforded a political
opportunity to a strongly-led movement, failed to happen, and despite its populist advocacy
of repatriation for West Indian immigrants in 1959 the party failed to gain any significant
electoral support amongst a nation which the horrors of World War II, awareness of the
Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities, a potentially disastrous Cold War, and growing
economic prosperity all rendered deeply suspicious of extremist policies of any political
colour. As the Union Movement declined other divergent but essentially minor fascist-style
groups began to emerge. In 1966, at the age of 70, Mosley resigned his leadership of Union
Movement. In October 1968, after publication of his controversial autobiography “My Life”,
his “Panorama” television interview attracted a record 8.5 million viewers, a testimony to the
public’s continuing interest in his political career. Sir Oswald Mosley died in December
1980.
Related Collections: Blackshirts in Kingston Project; John Beckett Collection; Cooper
Collection; Fascism in Great Britain Collection; Joyce Papers; Robert Saunders
Papers
Source: From various sources
System of arrangement: By category
Subjects: Fascism - Great Britain
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Names: British Union of Fascists; Mosley, Sir, Oswald Ernald 1896-1980; New Party; Union
Movement
Conditions of access: Academic researchers by appointment
Restrictions: Certain documents have restrictions on quotation
Copyright: Variously according to document. Documents copied for inclusion in this
Collection have been copied with the permission of the copyright holder
Finding aids: Listed
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BRITISH UNION COLLECTION
Arrangement
1
Journals
2
Books
3
Pamphlets
3L
Leaflets
4
Friends of Oswald Mosley
5
Memoirs
6
Miscellaneous
inc. Security Files
7
Correspondence
8
Photographs
9
Memorabilia
10
Anti-Fascist and Related Items
11
Works about the the Mosley movements
12
Films and videos
5
1
Journals
1A
New Party Journals
1A/1
Action [New Party]
Microfilm copy (1 reel)
Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 8
1A/1 (b)
- No. 13 Dec 1931
(MF 2)
[as above] Print copy
Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 8 1931
(MS220)
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1B
British Union (of Fascists and National Socialists) Journals
The copies of the Fascist Quarterly and the British Union Quarterly formerly
belonged to Robert Saunders, B.U.F District Leader, Dorset West. Some of the parts
(a) bear his signature, some (b) are stamped with his address ‘Friar Mayne Farm,
Broadmayne, Dorchester’. This is a complete set of the journal, and is rare in that
condition. The volumes are in their original state, some bound in stiff board covers.
The Quarterly was intended to produce an intellectual journal to counter the
influential Left Book Club. It includes papers by such well known writers as Roy
Campbell, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Beverley Nicholls, as well as Fascist
die-hards like Alexander Raven Thompson, Professor Laurie, President Salazar of
Portugal and Vidkun Quisling of Norway. It came to an end following the outbreak of
WWII and the subsequent internment of BU members and sympathisers.
1B/1
1B/2
Fascist Quarterly
Vol. 1 No. 1
Jan 1935
(b)
No. 2
Apr 1935
(a) (b)
No. 3
Jly 1935
(b)
No. 4
Oct 1935
(b)
Vol. 2 No. 1
Jan 1936
(b)
No. 2
Apr 1936
(b)
No. 3
Jly 1936
(a)
No. 4
Oct 1936
(b)
British Union Quarterly
Vol. 1 No. 1
Jan-Apr 1937 (b)
No. 2
Apr-Jly 1937 (b)
No. 3
Jly-Sep 1937 (b)
No. 4
Oct-Dec 1937 (b)
Vol. 2 No. 1
Jan-Mar 1938
No. 2
Apr-Jun 1938
No. 3
Jly-Sep 1938
No. 4
Oct-Dec 1938
Vol. 3 No. 1
Jan-Apr 1939
No. 2
Apr-Jun 1939
No. 3
Jly-Sep 1939
No. 4
Oct-Dec 1939
Vol. 4 No. 1
Spring 1940
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1B/3
Fascist Week Microfilm copy (1 reel)
No. 1 Nov 10 1933 - No. 29 May 31 1934
(MF 9)
(subsequently merged with The Blackshirt from the
latter’s No. 58)
1B/4
Action [British Union of Fascists] Microfilm copy (5 reels)
No. 1 Feb 21 1936 - No. 222 Jun 6 1940
1B/5
(MF 4)
The Blackshirt Microfilm copy (8 reels)
No. 1 Feb 1933 - No. 261 May 1939
(MF 3,8)
[nb some reels out of sequence]
together with
1B/6
British Union News (incorporating “The Blackshirt”)
No. 1 (262) Jun 1939
1B/7
East London Pioneer
Vol. 1, No. 2 Nov 1 1936 - Vol. 1, No. 4 Jan 1937 (MF 8)
[at end of reel for The Blackshirt Jan - Jun 1934]
1B/8
Age of Plenty, The: a journal of the new politics Original
Vol. 2, No. 1 (New Series) 1934 (200632114)
1B/9
The Woman Fascist Photocopy
Nos. 6, 7, 8, 11 May – Jly 1934
Fortnightly duplicated typescript newsletter circulated to
members of the Women’s Section during 1934
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1C
Union Movement Journals
1C/5
Unity Original
No. 1 20 Dec 1946 (200632111)
No. 2 17 Jan 1947
1C/6
(200632112)
Mosley News Letter Photocopy
No. 1 Nov 15 1946 - No. 15 Feb 1948
1C/7
Union (incorporating “Action”) Microfilm copy (2 reels)
No. 1 Feb 14 1948 - No. 465 Sep 7 1957
1C/7 (b)
(MF 4,7)
[as above] Print copy
No. 76 Aug 6 1949
together with
1C/8
Action (incorporating “Union”) Microfilm copy (2 reels)
No. 1 Sep 20 1957 - No. 145 Dec 20 1963
1C/9
The East London Worker (incorporating the East London
Blackshirt)
Microfilm copy (1 reel)
Apr, Aug 1953
(MF 5)
together with
1C/10
The East London Blackshirt (incorporating the East London
Worker)
Oct 1953, Jan - Feb 1954
1C/11 (b)
East London Action Original
Sep 1965
1C/12
The European Original
No. 12 Feb - No. 19 Sep 1954
No. 28 Jun 1955 - No. 42 Aug 1956
Vol. VIII No.1 Sep 1956 - Vol. X11 No. 6 Feb
1959 (lacks No. 4 1958)
(200523519)
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1C/13
The European Microfilm copy (4 reels)
No. 1 Mar 1953 - No. 72 Feb 1959 (MF 12)
The full title of ‘The European’ was originally ‘The European: the
analytical review’, changing in April 1954 to ‘The European: the
journal of opposition’
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2
Books
This section is intended to include only works by Mosley and members of his
movements. For other material see Section 11, and the Fascism in Great
Britain Collection
2 /CHE
CHESTERTON, A.K. Oswald Mosley: portrait of a leader. London,
Action Press Ltd., [1937]. 168p. (1 646131 01)
2 /FAS
FASCISM for the Million.
London, B.U.F. Publications, (1936).
67p. (1 657381 01)
2 /DRE
DRENNAN, James. B.U.F.: Oswald Mosley and British Fascism.
London, John Murray, 1934. (1 601317 01)
According to A.W. Brian Simpson in 'In the Highest Degree
Odious' (1992), 'James Drennan' is a pseudonym of W.E.D.
Allen, former Unionist M.P.
2 /HAW
HAWKS, Olive. What hope for Green Street? Jarrolds, [1945].
128p. (200632120)
A novel of working-class life in East London in the 1930s
Xerox copy.
2 /MOS
MOSLEY, Diana (Lady Mosley). A life of contrasts: the autobiography
of Diana Mosley. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1977. 296p.
(200613068)
Front fly-leaf signed ‘Diana Mosley’
2 /MOS
MOSLEY, Diana (Lady Mosley). A life of contrasts: the autobiography
of Diana Mosley. [Revised edition]. London, Gibson Square
Books, 2002. 280p. (200685766)
2 /MOS
MOSLEY, Diana (Lady Mosley). Loved ones: pen portraits. London,
Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985. 224p. (200619700)
2 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. The Alternative. Ramsbury, Mosley
Publications, 1947. [320]p.
No (?)12 of an autographed, de luxe edition, limited to 250
copies. Signed ‘O. Mosley’ (MS 220)
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2 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. The Greater Britain. [ London], BUF,
[1932]. 160p. (1 335257 01)
2 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. My answer. Ramsbury, Mosley
Publications, 1946. 123p. (1 646157 01)
2 /MOS
MOSLEY’S Blackshirts. [Personal reminiscences by 12 former
members of the BUF]. London, Sanctuary Press, 1986. 78p
(Xerox copy)
2 /STR
STRACHEY, John. Revolution by reason: an account of the financial
proposals submitted by Oswald Mosley at the Thirty-third
Independent Labour Party Conference, and endorsed by the
Birmingham Borough Labour Party and I.L.P.
Federation.
London, Leonard Parsons, [1925].
256p. (1 364833 01)
Strachey was a colleague of Mosley in the ILP, later joining
him in the New Party in 1931, but subsequently breaking with
Mosley when the latter embraced Fascism
Copies of the following books are with other Archive Collections:
(note that authors were in some cases no longer members of Mosley’s organisation at
the time of writing)
[Anon.] BLACKSHIRTS look back: inside the BUF 1932 - 1940. [London],
Sanctuary Press, 1984. 103p. [The first version of “Mosley’s Blackshirts,
1986 (2 /MOS)].
in the Robert Saunders Papers
[Anon.] MOSLEY: the facts. London, Euphorion Distribution, 1957. 319p.
in the Robert Saunders Papers
BRITISH UNION OF FASCISTS AND NATIONAL SOCIALISTS. Constitution
and regulations. London, Abbey Supplies Ltd., 1936. 96p.
in the Robert Saunders Papers
CHARNLEY, John. Blackshirts and roses: an autobiography. London,
Brockingday, 1990. 243p.
in the Robert Saunders Papers
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CHESTERTON, A.K. The new unhappy lords: an exposure of power politics.
London, Candour Publishing Co., 1965. 224p.
in the John Beckett Collection
CUTMORE, Anne (Mrs. John Beckett). Failure at Nuremberg. (An analysis of trial,
evidence and verdict. Prepared by the Research Department of the British
Peoples Party). London, Research Department of the British Peoples Party,
[?1947]. 44p.
in the John Beckett Collection
CUTMORE, Anne (Mrs. John Beckett). The truth about this war. London,
Research Department of the British Peoples Party, 1939 (repr. 1940). 124p.
in the John Beckett Collection
HAMM, Jeffrey. Action replay: an autobiography. London, Howard Baker, 1983.
247p.
in the Robert Saunders Papers
HAMM, Jeffrey. The evil good men do. London, Sanctuary Press, 1988. 214p.
in the Robert Saunders Papers
JOYCE, William National Socialism now. London, National Socialist League,
1937.
77p.
in the John Beckett Collection
MOSLEY, Lady Diana. A European diary: notes from the 1950s and 1960s.
Francetown, N.H., Typographeum, 1990. 77p.
in the Robert Saunders Papers
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Europe: faith and plan. London, Euphorion Books, 1958.
147p.
in the Robert Saunders Papers
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. The Greater Britain. New ed. London, BUF, 1934. 181p.
in the Robert Saunders Papers
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald.
285p.
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald.
Mosley - Right or Wrong?. London, Lion Books, 1961.
in the Robert Saunders Papers
My life.
London, Nelson, 1968.
in the Robert Saunders Papers
521p.
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RAMSAY, A.H.M.
1962. 120p.
The nameless war. 4th ed. London, Britons Publishing Co..
in the Robert Saunders Papers
See also the following section 3: Pamphlets, and the Pamphlets section H in the Robert
Saunders Papers.
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3
Pamphlets
Early period and New Party
3 /MEA
The MEANING of New Britain. (Tracts of the New Order, No. 1).
London, New Britain, [?1931]. 16p. (MS 220)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Revolution by reason...An account of the
Birmingham proposals, together with an analysis of the financial
policy of the present Government which has led to their great attack
upon wages. Birmingham, Independent Labour Party, [1925]. 29p.
(1338260 01)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Unemployment... Speech in the House of
Commons, 28th May, 1930, on his resignation. London, H.M.
Stationery Office Press, [1930]. 15p. (MS 220)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Why Mosley left the Labour Government:
(extracts from) his resignation speech on unemployment, House of
Commons, 28th May 1930. London, Greater Britain Publications,
[?1938]. 8p. (200587109)
British Union of Fascists (and National Socialists)
3 /ARP
A.R.P.: Belisha Bluff and National Neglect. Westminster, Greater
Britain Publications, [?1938]. [8]p. (MS 220)
3 /BEC
BECKETT, John. Fascism and trade unionism. London, B.U.F.
Publications, [1935]. 8p. (1 646158 01)
3 /BEC
BECKETT, John. Shot and shell. London, B.U.F. Publications,
[?1935]. 40p. (1 646156 01)
3 /BEC
BECKETT, John and THOMSON, Raven. Private trader and cooperator. London, B.U.F. Publications, [1936]. 40p. (1 60131 01)
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3 /BRI
BRITAIN and Jewry. Westminster, Greater Britain Publications,
[c.1938]. 8p. (200398447)
3 /CHE
CHESTERTON, A. K. Fascism and the press. London, B.U.F.
Publications, [c 1938]. 16p (1 646159 01)
3 /CRI
CRISIS! Westminster, Sanctuary Press Ltd., 1936. 4p.
Issued as part of the “Stand by the King” campaign in the
Abdication crisis (MS220)
3 /JOY
JOYCE, William. Dictatorship.
1933. 12p. (MS 220)
London, B.U.F. Publications Ltd.,
Pages uncut
3 /JOY
JOYCE, William.
(MS 220)
Fascism and India.
[n.p., n.d., c.1937].
19p.
3 /JOY
JOYCE, William. Fascism and Jewry. London, B.U.F Publications
Ltd., [1936?]. 8p. (z0110591)
Xerox copy
3 /LYM
LYMINGTON Viscount. Should Britain fight?. The British position
and some facts on the Sudeten problem. London, British Council
Against European Commitments, [?1938]. [4]p. (MS 220)
3 /MOS
BRITAIN first; being the verbatim report of Mosley’s speech to the
world’s largest indoor meeting held in the Earls Court Exhibition Hall,
Sunday, July 16th, 1939. Westminster, Greater Britain Publications,
[1939]. 32p. (MS 220)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. 10 points of Fascist policy: Fascism
explained. London, B.U.F., [1934?]. 9p. (200397961)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Tomorrow we live.
[1938?]. 72p. (1 601314 01)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Why Mosley left the Labour Government:
(extracts from) his resignation speech on unemployment, House of
Commons, 28th May 1930. London, Greater Britain Publications,
[1938?]. 8p. (200587109)
Abbey Supplies Ltd.,
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3/MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Unemployment. Speech in the House of
Commons, 28th May, 1930, on his resignation.
London, HMSO,
[1930]. 15p. (200953919)
3 /THO
THOMSON, Alexander Raven. The economics of British Fascism.
Reprinted from “The New English Weekly”. London, Bonner,
[c.1934]. 8p. (200632116)
Internment Period
3 /18B
18B PUBLICITY COUNCIL. Persecuted women in Britain today.
London, 18B Publicity Council, [?1945]. 22p. (200397884)
Photocopy
3 /WYN
WYNN, John. It might have happened to you! Investigation of
Regulation 18B... An enquiry conducted by J.Wynn, as a result of his
own experience. Finally edited and arranged, without prejudice or
malice, by Guy A. Aldred. Printed and published by him... Glasgow,
Strickland Press, 1943. 39p. (200632113)
Union Movement
3 /AFR
AFRICA: the source of European recovery.
Press, [1948?]. 8p. (200587106)
Ramsbury, Sanctuary
3 /FUL
FULLER, J.F.C. How to defeat Russia. London, Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1951. 16p. (200587120)
3/FUL
FULLER, J.F.C. “March to sanity”: what the British Union has to offer
Britain. 3rd ed. London, Greater Britain Publications, [1950s]. 13p.
(200953917)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. The bottom of Bevanism. London,
Sanctuary Press, [c.1955]. 4p. (200587113)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. The coming crisis: what will “they” do?
Reprinted from “Union”, 18th June, 1949. London, Sanctuary Press,
1949. 8p. (200587111)
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3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. The European situation: the third force.
Ramsbury, Mosley Publications, 1950. 19p. (200587119)
18
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Germany: the key to Europe. Reprinted from
“Union”.
Ramsbury, Sanctuary Press, 1948.
12p.
(200587107)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Germany and Russia. Ramsbury, Sanctuary
Press, [?1948]. 8p. (200587108)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Government of tomorrow: the problem of
power. Reprinted from The European [July 1955]. London,
Sanctuary Press, [1955]. 16p. (200587110)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Ireland’s right to unite when entering
European Union. Reprinted from “Union”, May 1948. 2nd ed.
Ramsbury, Sanctuary Press, [?1948]. (200587112)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Mosley: what they say, what they said, what
he is. London, Raven Books, 1947. 48p. (200587117)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. A Policy for Britain: the way out from
England on the dole. Ramsbury, Mosley Publications, [1947]. 20p.
(MS 220)
3 /MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. The present situation...”We shall fight and
win”. London, Sanctuary Press, [?1950]. 4p. (200587097)
3/MOS
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Automation: problem and solution. The answer
of European socialism. Reprinted from The European. London,
Sanctuary Press, [1955]. 15p. (200953918)
3 /NOR
NORRIS, Alfred. Union Movement: is it Fascist?
Books, 1948. 8p. (200587114)
3 /ROW
ROW, Robert. The answer to the slump. London, G.P. Sutherst,
[?1949]. 4p. (200587116)
3 /ROW
ROW, Robert. The colour question in Britain: causes and solution.
London, Sanctuary Press, [?1960]. 12p. (200587115)
London, Raven
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3 /UNI
UNION MOVEMENT. Policy of Union Movement and what
membership means. London, Union Movement, [c. 1954]. 4p.
(200398448)
3 /WOR
A WORKERS’ policy through syndicalism. (London, Union
Movement), 1953. 12p. (200632117)
See also Saunders Papers (MS119), which include a collection of Pamphlets, and various
other publications, e.g.
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Menace of Russian Communism: the necessity to prevent it
developing and using the Atom bomb for World Conquest. (Reprinted from Mosley
Newsletter No. 1, November 1946). Mosley Publications Ltd., [?1948]
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3L
Leaflets
British Union of Fascists (and National Socialists)
3L / APP
An Appeal for ... Britons.
“National Socialist students have had enough” (PE 6)
3L / BRI
British Union policy. Ten points. By Oswald Mosley. (PE 6)
3L / BRI
The British Union Stands for Trade Unionism (200373420)
3L / BRI
Britons! If you love our country...
“As National Socialists join the British Union” (PE 6)
3L/BRI
British Fascists. [1926?]
“Do you know? That there are over twenty subversive
movements directed against British children.” Issued
by the Fascist Children’s Club Dept. [1926]
(200953920)
3L / CAP
The Capitalist wolf.
“Labour and Communist leaders demanded the War”
(PE 6)
3L / DRE
The Dream that came true.
“For real peace and security” (PE 6)
3L / LAB
The Labour-Communist double-cross.
“Mind Britain’s business - make peace” (PE 6)
3L / MOS
Mosley’s four point policy for peace.
“Mind Britain’s business” (Poland) (PE 6)
3L / PRE
Press conspiracy.
“Why do they boycott British Union?” (PE 6)
3L/ SLU
Slums and sweatshops
“People of East London...”
3L / TOP
To poultry keepers in barnyard or backyard. [c.1935]
“For every egg produced in Britain one is imported”
(PE 6)
3L / WHY
Why did wholesale combines ban “Action”?
“Do these extracts explain?” (PE 6)
3L / WHY
Why do food prices rise?
“Because the international parties have sold out to the
foreigner” (PE 6)
21
Union Movement
3L /BRI
Britain invaded
The issue of coloured immigration. ‘Compiled by the
Brixton Branch of Union Movement’ (200587118)
3L/ SLU
Slums and sweatshops
“People of East London...”
3B
Duke of Bedford material (British People’s Party)
3B/BED(1)
Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). Total disarmament, or, an international police
force. 2nd ed. Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1948. 20p.
3B/BED(2)
Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). For peace and prosperity: a peace charter issued
by the British Peoples Party. London: People’s Post, [1940s].
[8]p.
3B/BED(3)
Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). Why join the British People’s Party? London:
People’s Post, [1945]. [4]p.
3B/BED(4)
Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). 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]. 3p.
3B/BED(5)
Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953).
An important message from the Duke of
Bedford. [An open letter stating that he has decided to restart
the BPP]. London: [Bedford], [1945]. [4]p.
3B/BED(6)
Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953).
Some essays on war and peace. Glasgow:
Strickland Press, 1944. 31p.
3B/BED(7)
Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). Conscientious objectors: speech delivered House
of Lords, Tuesday, 18th January, 1944. Glasgow: Strickland
Press, 1944. 13p.
3B/BED(8)
Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). War aims: economic and political questions:
speech delivered House of Lords, Wednesday, 8th March, 1944.
Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1944. 14p.
22
3B/BED(9)
Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). Straight speaking from a patriot to an “ostrich”.
Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1948. 9p.
3B/BED(10) Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). Why blunder on?: first steps in an emergency
programme to end war, disease and poverty. Glasgow:
Strickland Press, 1942. 47p.
3B/BED(11) Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953).
Why not think? Glasgow: Strickland Press,
1945. 12p.
3B/BED(12) Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). Where have we got to?. Glasgow: Strickland
Press, [1943?]. [4]p.
3B/BED(13) Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). Hope: not dope. 2nd rev.ed. Glasgow: Strickland
Press, 1945. 21p.
3B/BED(14) Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953).
Night bombing: is it human and effective?
Glasgow: Strickland Press, [1943]. 6p.
3B/BED(15) Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). The conscientious objector: speech delivered …
House of Lords, Tuesday, 2nd March, 1943. Glasgow:
Strickland Press, 1943. 27p.
3B/BED(16) Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953).
Propaganda for proper geese. Glasgow:
Strickland Press, 1944. 22p.
3B/BED(17) Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). Is this justice?: an examination of Regulation
18B. Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1943. 35p.
3B/BED(18) Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). Wholesale bombing. Glasgow: Strickland Press,
1944. 6p.
3B/BED(19) Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). In a nutshell. Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1951.
7p.
3B/BED(20) Oddie, G. S.
Why I joined the British People’s Party.
London: People’s Post, [1946?]. [4]p.
3B/BED(21) Oddie, G. S. Christianity and politics: the light that has not
failed. London: People’s Post, [1950s?]. [8]p.
3B/BED(22) People’s Post: a news and views monthly … edited by John
Beckett. [Advertising leaflet]. London: People’s Post, [1940s].
[4]p.
23
3B/BED(23) One of the latter. Where are we getting to?: written for those
who want lots more war and for those who don’t, by One of the
latter. Glasgow: Strickland Press, [1944]. [4]p.
3B/BED(24)
Russell, Hastings William Sackville, 12th Duke of Bedford,
(1888-1953). The fate of a peace effort, by the Marquess of
Tavistock. London: published by the Marquess of Tavistock,
1940. 42p.
See also Saunders Papers (MS 119), which include various publications, e.g.
“Are Communists the Fifth Column for Russia?” [?1948] (C11/180)
“Calling Britain Your Freedom is Now in Peril” [?1948] (C11/181,189)
“No Russian Red Flag Here! [?1948] (C11/182)
“Objects of “Union Movement” [?1948] (C11/198,199)
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4
Friends of Oswald Mosley
4 /1
Comrade: newsletter of the Friends of Oswald Mosley.
Nos. 1 -
March 1986 –
Supplement
4 /2
Mosley’s Men.
1996.
May 1995
Audio-tape issued by F.O.M. [Friends of Oswald Mosley],
[AU 1]
Contents:
Side One
Song: Mosley Leader of Thousands 7 Jun 1934
Sir Oswald Mosley 22 Jly 1950
Raven Thomson 6 Apr 1954
Andy Burn 24 Oct 1970
George Webb 24 Sep 1961
Alfred Millns 24 Sep 61
Dan Harmston 22 Nov 1972
Jeffrey Ham 24 Oct 1970
Louise Irvine 16 Nov 1991
Ronald Creasy 17 Nov 1990
Michael Quill 8 May 1992
Martin Moloney 18 Nov 1995
Desmond Irvine 16 Nov 1992
Henry Williamson 18 Nov 1970
Side Two
Robert Saunders 15 Mar 1958
Sir Oswald Mosley 15 Mar 1958
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4 /3
Comrades in struggle: the voice of Oswald Mosley 1934-1939.
Audiotape. London, The Friends of Oswald Mosley, 1988.
[AU 7]
Contents:
Side One
1. Comrades in struggle. 1938. [3.40 min]
Mosley’s message to the Blackshirts
2. British Union. 1938. [3.15 min]
Message to British Union supporters
3. Royal Albert Hall. 22 May 1934. [8.20 min]
Mosley’s speech
4. Earls Court Peace Rally. 16 Jly 1939. [15.00 min]
Pageant of the Drums and Mosley’s speech to 30,000
Side Two
1. The Marching Song. 1936. [2.40 min]
Sung by Blackshirts
2. We will make peace. [0.30 min]
The Leader’s statement to the news media
3. Olympia. 7 Jun 1934. [28.40 min]
Massed bands of BU and excerpts from Mosley’s speech, inc.
Red interrupters and their ejection
[Some technical interference on tape]
4/3B
Mosley speaks. A selection of highlights from great indoor meetings, a
street election meeting and finally the Song of Union.
Audio CD-ROM issued by The New Christian Crusade Church,
[2002?]
(CD 3)
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4 /4
“Chaos and crisis: Mosley’s way out” (1962/63)
[Statements on the need for European integration]
Audiotape. Re-issue. London, The Friends of O.M., 1994.
First issued by Union Movement 1962 and 1963; re-issued by
Action Society 1983
[AU 6]
Contents:
Side One
Mosley predicts the crisis. [43.45 min]
Side Two
Make Europe a nation now! [43.50 min]
4 /5
Action News. From the Oswald Mosley website [www.oswaldmosley.com]
(Action News in print is distributed as a supplement to Comrade)
May 2001 – (Occasional, as received)
27
5
Memoirs of members of the British Union of Fascists.
5/1 Beckett, John (1894- )
After my fashion: twenty post-war years. London, [c1940]
[Typescript] (MS 188)
Beckett was an I.L.P. and a Labour M.P., later a member in turn of the B.U.F,
the National Socialist League and the British People’s Party
(Mainly) Pre-BUF / BUF / 18B Internment periods
5/2 Wynn, John
[Memoirs]. [n.p.], (1974)
[Typescript] (MS 189)
18B Internment period
5/3 Grundy, Leslie
Don’t let your conscience be your guide: before World War I; life at the
Labour Home [Huddersfield]. [n.p., c1971]
[Typescript] (MS 190)
Grundy was BU District Leader for Huddersfield
Pre-BUF / BUF / 18B Internment periods
5/4 Richard, Robert
BUF ‘Geordie’ recollections: 1932 to 1939. [n.p.], 1990 rev. 1996.
[Typescript] (MS 191)
Richard was BU District Leader for Newcastle
BUF period
5/5 Bellamy, Richard Reynell
We marched with Mosley: a British Fascist’s view of the twentieth century.
[Abridged version, Volume 1]. (Upminster), [?1989].
[Typescript, xeroxed copy] (MS 196)
Bellamy was a National Inspector and the last Director of Propaganda of the
B.U.F.
BUF period
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5/6 Bellamy, Richard Reynell
We marched with Mosley. [Complete version. Reconstituted by John
Warburton]. Holt, Norfolk, 1968. (In 4 volumes)
[Typescript, xeroxed copy] (MS 197)
BUF / 18B Internment / UM (briefly) periods
The author’s original memoir, which formed a history of the British Union of Fascists, was
intended for publication but in the event not published. At one point it was prepared for
publication by being abridged in three separate volumes, which were given the titles “We
marched with Mosley”, “Memoirs of a Fascist beast” and “Mosley in perspective”. During
this preparation part of the original complete version was lost, and the whole original work
was subsequently reconstituted by John Warburton under the general title “We marched with
Mosley”. This reconstituted version includes all the information contained in the separate
abridged volumes.
5/7 Beavan, Arthur
Diary entries from: 12th May 1941 to: 26th October 1941. (Huyton and Peel,
1941).
[Manuscript, xeroxed copy] (MS 198)
Beavan was West Ham District Leader and was interned during the period
covered by the Diary.
18B Internment period
5/8 Watts, Charlie
It has happened here: the experience of a political prisoner in British prisons
and concentration camps during the fifth column panic of 1940/41. [n.p.,
1941, c.1948, 1966]
[Typescript, xeroxed copy] (MS 199)
The memoir includes a ‘Last Chapter’ update written in 1966.
Watts was Westminster St. George District Leader.
18B Internment period
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5/9 Donovan, Heather
‘Extracts from a letter to my cousin’ regarding imprisonment under Regulation
18B 1940-42, written by Yvonne Heather Fitzgerald Donovan (neé Bond) in
the Summer of 1953.. [n.p.], 1953.
[Manuscript, xeroxed copy] (MS 207)
Donovan was Women’s District Leader for Westminster St. George’s and the
wife of Captain Bryan Donovan, Asst. Director General (O) of British Union
Restrictions: permission to quote from this document must be obtained in
writing from the copyright holder (see British Union Collection file)
18B Internment period
5/10 Burdett, Frederick Edward
(Newspaper cuttings book [for the years 1933-1940]). 82p. [pp 57/58 are
missing, but a loose news-cutting is in place]
(MS 225)
Most of the articles and letters are the work of Burdett, many appearing
pseudonymously (“Frederick Edward[e]s”, “Cratos”). Also included are
newspaper reports of the arrest of BU members in 1940 under Defence
Regulation 18B, amongst which Burdett appears (unnamed) giving the fascist
salute on leaving NHQ after his arrest, as does his wife (also unnamed).
Burdett was a BU member from 1933 and District Leader of Peckham from
September 1937. At the time of his arrest in May 1940 he was domiciled with
his wife Olive (née Hawks), Chief Women’s Organiser of BU. This
Newspaper cuttings book was amongst property seized at the time of his arrest
and held by Special Branch.
This item includes the additional enclosures:
5/10 (a)
“Notes on Frederick Burdett taken from his Home Office file at
the Public Record Office, Kew, relating to his detention under
Defence Regulation 18B 1940-42”. Aug 1998. [Typescript],
[2 ll.]
5/10 (b)
“A modern statesman and his work. Il Duce”. [Ms.] [16p].
A school essay, written at the age of 15 in 1933, sent to
the Italian Embassy and rewarded with a signed framed
photograph of Mussolini. (MS 226)
5/10 (c)
2 xerox copies of portrait photographs of Burdett:
(i) In Blackshirt uniform, circa 1934
(ii) In Action Press uniform, 1936
BUF / 18B Internment periods
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5/11 Fisher, C. Louise [later Mrs S.L. Irvine]
“Arrest and imprisonment under regulation 18b. November 1940 - November
1941. As experienced by Miss C.L. Fisher (now Mrs. Irvine.) [n.d.]
[Typescript, xerox] [6 ll.]
Copied from a copy in the John Beckett Collection by permission of the author
Fisher was Women’s District Leader in Birmingham
18B Internment period
5/12 Irvine, S. L.
“Arrest and imprisonment under regulation 18b. June1940 - November 1941.
As experienced by Mr. S.L. Irvine [n.d.]
[Typescript, xerox] [6 ll.]
Copied from a copy in the John Beckett Collection by permission of Mrs
Irvine. Together with transcription of p1-2, partly illegible
Irvine was District Leader in Birmingham
18B Internment period
5/13 Taylour, Fay
“Your attention is arrested - under Defence Regulation 18-B”. [n.d.]
[Typescript, xerox] [23 ll.]
Includes an account of the author’s experiences after release.
Together with other background information: a letter from Jeffrey Wallder and
some Web information on motor-cycle activities
Taylour was a BU member and also a Right Club member, and a prominent
female motor-cycle racing competitor
18B Internment period
5/14 Greaves, Blanche
Transcript of an Interview with Blanche Greaves, from the Friends of Oswald
Mosley Archive. Recorded September 9, 1992 by Jeffrey Wallder. Transcribed
by Julie Gottlieb.
[Typescript, xerox] 26 ll. (MS 263)
A copy of the tape recording is in the Blackshirts in Kingston Project
Collection
Greaves was Women’s District Leader in Kingston-upon-Thames, 1934-40
BUF period (with brief references to later periods)
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5/15 Walsh, Gladys
(a)
Interview with Mrs Gladys Walsh, 6th July 1988, from the Friends of Oswald
Mosley Archive.
Audio tape-recording. 60 mins. (AU 10)
(b)
Transcript of an Interview with Mrs Gladys Walsh, from the Friends of
Oswald Mosley Archive. Transcribed by Julie Gottlieb.
[Typescript, xerox] 11 ll. (MS 262)
Walsh was appointed District Leader, Limehouse, in 1939
BUF period (with references to later periods)
This recording and transcript must not be copied
[See also “A Tiller of Several Soils: the Memoirs of Robert Saunders, O.B.E.”, 1987, in the
Robert Saunders Papers.
Saunders was District Leader, West Dorset (BUF) and Constituency Organiser, Dorchester
(UM)
BUF / 18B Internment / UM periods ]
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6
Miscellaneous documents.
6 /1 (a)
The Regulation 18B British Union Detainees List. (Compiled by John
Warburton; [revised by] Jeffrey Wallder. [n.p.], 1997.)
[Typescript, xeroxed copy] (MS 201)
The list is of detainees confirmed as members of the BUF or probably so, and
does not include other detainees. No official list of World War II detainees any
longer exists.
`
Copies are also at the Imperial War Museum, London, and at Kingston
University Library
6 /1 (b) The Regulation 18B British Union Detainees List. Second issue [revised
and expanded]. (Compiled by John Warburton; [revised by]
Jeffrey Wallder. [n.p.], 2001.)
[Typescript, xeroxed copy] (MS 271)
The list is of detainees confirmed as members of the BUF or probably so, and
does not include other detainees. No official list of World War II detainees any
longer exists.
Copies are also at the Imperial War Museum, London, Kingston University
Library, and other university libraries
6 /1 (c)
The Regulation 18B British Union Detainees List. Addition to the
Second issue. (Compiled by John Warburton; [revised by] Jeffrey
Wallder. [n.p.], 2005.)
[Typescript, xeroxed copy] (MS 346)
The list is of detainees confirmed as members of the BUF or probably so, and
does not include other detainees. No official list of World War II detainees any
longer exists.
6 /1 (d) The Regulation 18B British Union Detainees List. Second addition to the
Second issue. (Compiled by John Warburton; [revised by] Jeffrey
Wallder. [n.p.], 2007.)
[Typescript, xeroxed copy] (MS 371)
The list is of detainees confirmed as members of the BUF or probably so, and
does not include other detainees. No official list of World War II detainees any
longer exists.
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6 /2 The British Union of Fascists and National Socialists
Official Gazette
(MS 205)
28/36
13 Jul 1936
38/36
21 Sep 1936
39/36
28 Sep 1936
Official Appointments List
6/37
8 Feb 1937
17/37
3 May 1937
4/39 – 29/39 23 Jan 1939 – 28 Aug 1939 (Missing 13/39)
Branch Codes of the British Union
compiled by Jeffrey Wallder, John Millican, S. Western. 16 Feb 2009
6 /3
Selsey Bilge: a paper for reading and other homely purposes.
Vol. 1, No. 1 August 1937 (MS 220)
A ‘joke’ paper produced at the 1937 Blackshirt camp
6 /4
Security Files
Copies of released Home Office files on Regulation 18B detainees now
in the Public Record Office
/BUR
Burdett, Frederick Edward
(MS 233)
Ref no. HO45/25703
6 /5
Ward, Barbara.
Policy for the West. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1951 ((200587104)
Copy bears stamp: Union Bookshop, 48, Clowes Street, West Gorton,
Manchester, 12
6/6
McCoy, Andy
The visual culture of the British Far Right, 1932-1939. Ph.D. Thesis, Reading
University, December 2010. CD
6/7
Donovan, B.D.E.
Stewarding instructions for the Earls Court Meeting, Sunday 16th July [1939]
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6/8
Yeowell, John
Questionnaire completed by John Yeowell concerning his involvement
with Odinism, 7 Sep 2002. Ts. & ms. 11 l.
[Letter associated with the above, 3 Aug 2002. Ts. 1 l. Restricted]
6/9
Creasy, Ronald
(i)
Questionnaire completed by Ronald Creasy, 8 Feb 2004. Ts. 40 l.
(ii)
“The Suffolk Landowner”, by R.N. Creasy. (Pages 9-13 of Mosley’s
Blackshirts, Sanctuary Press, 1984, 1986)
(iii)
“The Essex Farmworker”, by George Hoggarth. (Pages 42-45 of
Mosley’s Blackshirts)
(iv)
Handwritten notes. 1 l.
[Correspondence associated with the above, Dec 2003-Apr 2004. Ts.
12 l. Restricted]
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7
Correspondence
See also documents in the Robert Saunders Papers
7/Mosley
(i)-(xlii)
Mosley, Lady Diana
[Folder of letters]
Date: 1967 Dec 6 - 2002 Jul 12
Photocopies of letters from Diana Mosley to Robert Innes Smith,
friend and editor of The Tatler magazine
Originals in the Mitford archive at Chatsworth House. Copies donated
by Robert Innes Smith, 21st May 2012 (MS 428)
(xliii)
7 /Mosley
Explanatory notes by R.I.S., May 2012
Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald
[Letter]
Date: 1928 Nov 1
Oswald Mosley to Dick Gifford, Hitchin Div. Labour Party, 13, St
Augustine’s Road, Camden Square, N.W.1, regretting that he and his wife are
unable to visit Hitchin owing to backlog of engagements caused by his
protracted illness.
Address: 8, Smith Square, Westminster, S.W.1
Typescript, autographed
Paper, 1p.
Purchased from Messrs. Henry Bristow of Ringwood, Hants., 24th March
1997 (MS 187)
Stored with Single Manuscripts
7 /Wise
(i)
Wise, Leonard
[Letter]
Date: [?1996, undated]
Wise to Professor [recte Mr] Richard Thurlow, Department of History,
University of Sheffield, with information about the BU at the approach of
World War II, and referring to the rumoured secret membership of Field
Marshall Edmund Ironside
Address: Upminster, Essex
Copy typescript; with some ms. (partly photocopy), autographed
6 ll .
(MS 206 (a))
36
(ii)
[Letter]
Wise to Professor [recte Mr] Richard Thurlow, Department of History,
University of Sheffield. with information about various British Union
members who served in the armed forces during World War II, and referring
to the rumoured secret membership of Field Marshall Ironside.
Date: 1997 Jan 15
Address: Upminster, Essex
Typescript, partly copy, autographed
7 ll
(MS 206 (b))
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8
Photographs
8 /1
Collection of 18 photographs (MS 220)
Items in this collection in many cases bear the stamp “Abbey Supplies Ltd.” ,
one of the operating companies of the British Union, “P.L.A. Photos” or
“Fascist Photo Agency”. The last two were businesses run by Peter Atkinson
(initials PLA) in Charing Cross Road, Westminster, and which advertised
through “The Blackshirt” and “Action”, and also marketed Abbey Supplies
photographs.
Notes in this section are based on information obtained from various sources
and in some instances may be subject to amendment.
8 /1/1
Earls Court Peace Rally (“Mind Britain’s Business”) (interior),
Sunday, July 16th 1939, at which Mosley addressed an
audience of up to 30,000 people. This was claimed to be the
largest indoor meeting held anywhere in the world up to that
time.
8 /1/2
Group of five male figures in suits. Taken May 1937, and
appeared in “Action”. The figures are (L to R): Alexander
Raven Thomson, Clement Bruning, Charles Wegg Prosser;
Wilfred Risdon; E.G. ‘Mick’ Clarke.
8 /1/3
Printers celebrating the installation of a new rotary press for the
publication of “The Blackshirt”, May 1937.
8 /1/4
Oswald Mosley from above greeted by supporters during
Kentish Town to Trafalgar Square march, 4th July 1937.
Behind Mosley’s R shoulder is Frank Osborn; in front of
Mosley is Neil Francis Hawkins; bottom L is Capt. Bryan
Donovan.
8 /1/5
Oswald Mosley inspects the women’s formation of the
Limehouse Branch of the BU in Islip Street, Kentish Town,
prior to Trafalgar Square march, 4th July 1937. To his R is Neil
Francis Hawkins, and to his R Mick Clarke. Behind Mosley’s R
shoulder is Capt. U. Hick, and behind him can be seen
Mosley’s personal standard.
8 /1/6
Oswald Mosley speaking from top of a loudspeaker van to a
crowd in London during the ‘Britain First’ Campaign, July
1938
8 /1/7
Oswald Mosley speaking at microphone, venue unknown, in
1939. Behind him is Captain Hick.
8 /1/8
Oswald Mosley standing in open motor car amongst saluting
crowd whilst inspecting the ranks of marchers in Islip Street,
Kentish Town, before leading the march to Trafalgar Square,
4th July 1937. He is flanked by four men of the Special
Detachment.
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8 /2
8 /1/9
George Armsden, Mosley’s personal standard bearer, with BU
standard, Kentish Town to Trafalgar Square march, 4th July
1937.
8 /1/10
BU member with facial injury sustained at Kentish
Town Station prior to march from Islip Street to Trafalgar
Square, 4th July 1937. With three St. John’s Ambulance
Brigade personnel
8 /1/11
Distant view of Oswald Mosley speaking at the BU Earls Court
Peace Rally, 16th July 1939 (interior). On either side of the
podium are the 60 Honour Standards of BU, Flags of Trade
Union Groups and the Women’s Drum Corps.
8 /1/12
Frederick D. Hill leads his contingent into Trafalgar Square
after the march from Kentish Town, 4th July 1937.
8 /1/13
Part of BU Day March of 50,000 Blackshirts and supporters
during May 1939 leaving the Embankment and heading for
Ridley Road where Mosley addressed a crowd estimated at
100,000 people. View from from above, Guardsmen and
marchers side by side.
8 /1/14
as 8/1/13, but with marchers flanked by police.
8 /1/15
Earls Court Peace Rally, 16th July 1939: the British Women’s
Drum Corps enters the Hall led by Drum Major Heather Bond
(in white gloves). At Rear beneath the flags can be seen Miss
Blanche Greaves. They are being saluted by Blackshirt
stewards lining the central aisle.
8 /1/16
E.G. “Mick” Clarke in East London street decorated with
bunting. Either during King George V Jubilee celebrations,
1935, or King George VI Coronation celebrations, 1937.
8 /1/17
E.G. “Mick” Clarke by newsagent’s shop with BU Cadets in
East London during 1937 LCC Election campaign.
8 /1/18
Communist demonstrators giving clenched-fist salutes behind
line of police in Trafalgar Square for BU march from Islip
Street, Kentish Town to Trafalgar Square, where Mosley spoke,
4th July 1937.
"Sir Oswald Mosley in Sheffield", 28 June 1934. "Daily
Independent" Photographs. (Digitised version of a copy in the
Sheffield Libraries collections). Published in the Sheffield Daily
Telegraph, 29 June 1934, together with a report of the meeting
at the City hall and counter-demonstration
together with a copy of the newspaper report (poor copy)
[Other BU photographs are kept with the Joyce Papers]
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Memorabilia
9 /1
The Blackshirt Ball, Prince’s Galleries, Piccadilly, W.1., Ocober 12th,
1934. [Souvenir programme]. Cover plus [4]p. (MS 220)
Includes signed photo of Oswald Mosley in fencing dress
9 /2
The Blackshirt Jubilee and Empire Day Ball, 1935. Souvenir
Programme. (Held at the Porchester Hall on Empire Day 1935, to
commemorate the Silver Jubilee of their majesties King George V and
Queen Mary). Cover plus [4]p. (MS 220)
Includes nine autographs, including Oswald Mosley, Neil
Francis-Hawkins and Alexander Raven Thomson
9 /3
British Union: Pictorial Record, 1932-1937. [48]p. (MS 220)
9 /4
“Britain First” Rally. (Souvenir programme of world’s largest indoor
meeting), Earls Court Exhibition Hall, Sunday, July 16th 1939.].
Cover plus 12p. (MS 220)
Includes signed photo of Oswald Mosley
9 /5
“Oswald Mosley the Man”. Commemorative tribute issue of “Action!”,
No. 287, January 1981. (200632115)
Includes tributes from previous BUF / UM members, including
Robert Saunders
9/6
Programme of the visit of HRH the Prince of Wales to Bedford School,
Wednesday, November 8th 1933. Includes advertisement for B.U.F. on
p. 16. Cover plus 24p. (PE 26)
9/7
Record: “Comrades in struggle” by The Leader and “British Union” by
Oswald Mosley. Produced by Greater Britain Records. Label shows
white B.U. flash on blue and red background
9/8
Record: “The Marching Song” and Britain awake!” by Members of the
British Union Male Voice Choir and Orchestra. Produced by Greater
Britain Records. Label shows white B.U. flash on blue and red
background
[See also a few items in the Joyce Manuscripts collection]
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10
Anti-Fascist and Miscellaneous Items
10 /BUF
The B.U.F. by the B.U.F. Tiptree, Anchor Press, [1939?]. 8p.
(200398451)
Quoted criticisms of Mosley by former members of the BUF
10 /COM
Communist Party of Great Britain
Communist election policy. Parliamentary election, October 25,
1951. London, Communist Party, 1951. 4p. (200587105)
10 /COM
Communist Party of Great Britain
Keep Mosley in prison.
8p. (200398449)
10 /COM
London, Communist Party, (1943).
Communist Party of Great Britain
Put Mosley back in prison. London, Communist Party, (1943).
8p. (200398450)
10 /COM
Communist Party of Great Britain
September 9th. "Drowned in a sea of working class activity".
(London, Communist Party), [1934]. 14p. (200397962)
10 /DAI
“Daily Mirror”
Oct 5, 1936.
Includes front and back page report of the ‘Battle of Cable
Street’ of the previous day. (MS 220)
10 /DAI
“Daily Worker”
Sep 8, 1934
“Fascists lose court action against us” and report re anti-Fascist
demonstration in Hyde Park for following day (PE 6)
10 /DAI
“Daily Worker”
Sep 2, 1939
Issue reporting the German invasion of Poland (MS 220)
10 /DOU
Douglas, J.L.
Spotlight on Fascism. London, the author on behalf of the
Communist Party of Great Britain, [1935?]. 24p. (200397966)
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10 /KES
Kessemeier, Th.
Howard Marshall’s famous article in the Daily Mail, and the
answer. Hamburg, Falken-Vlg., [?1939]. [4]p.
(MS 220)
10 /LAB
Labour Research Department
Mosley Fascism: the man, his policy, his methods. London,
Labour Research Department, 1935. 16p. (200632118)
Another copy
10 /MUL
(200398546)
Mullally, Frederic
This is your enemy!: an urgent message to trade-unionists.
(London), pr. McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., [1948?]. 8p.
(200397986)
10 /MUR
Murphy, J.T.
Fascism!: the Socialist answer. London, The Socialist League,
[1935?]. 15p.
(200397976)
10 /OBS
“The Observer”
Jly 1, 1962 pp3 & 7
“Fascism in Britain” report by Mark Arnold-Foster (MS 220)
10 /PRI
Printing and Allied Trades Anti-Fascist Movement
Printers and the Fascist menace: an appeal to all workers in the
trade. [London], the author, [1934?]. 20p. (200397967)
10 /PRI
Pritt, D.N.
The Mosley case.
32p.
London, Labour Monthly, [1944?].
(200397981)
On the release of the Mosleys from internment
10 /YOU
Young Communist League
10 points against Fascism. London, Y.C.L., [1934]. 16p.
(200397971)
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11
Works about the Mosley movements
This section is intended to include only unpublished or article-length
materials. See also the Fascism in Great Britain Collection
11/COU
COUPLAND, Philip M.
‘The Blackshirts in Northampton
article: Northamptonshire Past and Present, No. 53,71-82, 2000
Xerox copy.
11/COU
Donated by the author
COUPLAND, Philip M.
‘The Blackshirts of Wellingborough’
article: Northamptonshire Local History News, 4 (8), 9-13, Autumn
1999
Xerox copy.
11/HAR
Donated by the author
‘Nicholas Mosley (Lord Redesdale) discusses his late father, Sir
Oswald Mosley, and his post-war political movement, the Union
Movement (with Andrew Harvey)’. [An interview on audio-tape
conducted 19 June 2000 as research towards an M.A. dissertation in
Contemporary History, University of Sussex]
2 reels.
(AU 9).
Donated by the interviewer.
Available for consultation from 1.1.2006
11/HAR
HARVEY, Andrew
'Second time around': Sir Oswald Mosley and Union Movement, 1948
to 1966. [Brighton], 2000. 73 ll. (MS 273)
M.A. dissertation in Contemporary History, University of Sussex
Available for consultation from 1.1.2006
11/HIL
HILLMAN, Nicholas
'Tell me chum, in case I got it wrong. What was it we were fighting for
during the war?'. The re-emergence of British Fascism, 1945-58.
(Offprint from Contemporary British History, Vol. 15 No. 4, Winter
2001, pp. 1-34). (200398169)
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11/ MIG
MIGNARD, Gérard.
Sir Oswald Mosley, philosophy and action after 1945.
1977. [iv], 59 ll. (200632119)
Paris, 1976-
Thesis, Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines, Université de
Paris.
Typescript. Donated by the author
11/ SAM
SAMPSON, June
“Appeal of the man in black”. (The June Sampson feature, Surrey
Comet, 21 and 28 July 2000)
Morden, Surrey Comet, 2000. p13 + p15.
Xerox copy. Donated by John Warburton
Articles on the B.U.F. in Kingston, Surrey, prompted by the
publication of “Blackshirts-on-Sea” by J.A. Booker, 1999.
11/ SPU
SPURR, Michael Adrian
Becoming Blackshirts: ideology, culture, and the British Union of
Fascists, 1932-1940.
[Clayton, Victoria], 1998.
[viii], 201 ll.
(MS 264)
M.A. thesis, Department of History, Monash University
Typescript. Copied by permission of the author
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Films and videos
12 /MOS
MOSLEY, Diana (Lady Mosley).
'Diana Mosley: Adolf, Oswald and Me'. Based on a filmed interview
for television of 1999. Broadcast on Channel 4, 2003.
Playing time 60 mins.
13
VIDEO.
(FM 8)
Tommy Waters material (photocopies)
13/1
British Union leaflet: Women of Britain – you have the vote but have you
power? Photocopy. 1 l.
13/2
British Union NHQ Weekly Instructions, no. 258, 10 Oct 1938. Photocopy. 1
l.
13/3
British Union Official Appointments List, 10 Oct 1938. Photocopy. 1 l.
13/4
List of British Union meetings to be held in London during week ending 24
Jul 1939. Photocopy. 2 l.
13/5
British Union membership application for Percy Willis-Francis, 3 Oct 1933.
Includes British Union of Fascists Constitution and Rules. Photocopy. 3 l.
13/6
British Union election poster for Stepney Borough Council Election, 1937.
Photocopy. 1 l.
13/7
“Mosley’s message to all British Union members”, 1 Sep 1939. Photocopy. 3
l.
13/8
Letter from Hector G. McKechnie, British Union National Meetings
Organiser, to Andrew Stewart of Peace News, 27 Jun 1939. Concerns tickets
for Earls Court meeting on 16 Jul 1939. Photocopy. 1 l.
13/9
Two letters from U.A. Hick, British Union London Area Administrator.
i)
To T.C. Waters, Limehouse District. “Re District Premises”. 10 Dec
1937. Photocopy. 1 l.
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ii)
To R.B. Dundas. Concerns donation of clothing. 25 Aug 1938.
Photocopy. 1 l.
13/10 Letter from Dr. Robert Forgan, British Union Political Director, to P. WillisFrancis. Concerns his interest in membership of the B.U. 29 Sep 1933.
Photocopy. 1 l.
13/11 Letter from Ernest (Mick) Clarke, British Union London Propaganda
Organiser, to the British Union District Leader, Limehouse District. Concerns
rivalries between Limehouse and Bethnal Green North East. 6 Apr 1938.
Photocopy. 4 l.
13/12 Letter from Tommy Waters, British Union Limehouse District Leader, to
British Union Senior Administrator London. Concerns dissension within the
Limehouse branch. 14 Dec 1937. Photocopy. 1 l.
13/13 British Union handbill: The British Union stands for Trade Unionism. [1936].
Photocopy. 1 l.
13/14 British Union leaflet: Join the British Union of Fascists. [1933]. Photocopy. 1
l.
13/15 British Union leaflet: Up Britain, Stop War! [1939]. Photocopy. 1 l.
13/16 British Union leaflet: British Union policy. Ten points. By Oswald Mosley.
Photocopy. 2 l.
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