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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley

added 12 September 2009

British fascism

Postwar fascism in London

Sunday-evening rallies in Ridley Road market,

in east London,

where hundreds of people gathered to hear

Oswald Mosley,

who was keen to revive his prewar

British Union of Fascists

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/24/
the-british-jews-who-fought-postwar-fascism-on-londons-streets

Oswald Mosley addresses a crowd

in Dalston, east London in 1948.

Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

Fascism has never thrived in Britain

but it haunts its mainstream politics

Conservatives have seen off the far right

by absorbing many of their policies

Sun 3 May 2020 08.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/03/
fascism-has-never-thrived-in-britain-but-it-haunts-its-mainstream-politics

Oswald Mosley

standing and speaking

with a hand raised to make a point.

Location: Ireland

Date taken: 1948

Photograph: Nat Farbman

Life Images

British Union Of Fascists Meeting

Sir Oswald Mosley (C)

attending a meeting of the British Union of Facists.

Location: United Kingdom

Date taken: 1940

Photograph: William Vandivert

Life Images

1930s

British Fascism / fascism in the UK

Oswald Mosley 1896-1980

Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley 1910-2003

(née Freeman-Mitford)

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/aug/14/
guardianobituaries.thefarright

British Union of Fascists BUF

Fascism in the UK Timeline

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/19/
timeline-nazism-abdication-war-turbulent-royal-era

William Joyce (aka Lord Haw-Haw), far left,

with other members of the far-right British Union of Fascists,

including its leader Oswald Mosley.

Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

Lord Haw-Haw was good for a laugh

Tuesday 15 September 2015 20.16 BST

Last modified on Saturday 7 May 2016 15.59 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/sep/15/
lord-haw-haw-was-good-for-a-laugh

Sir Oswald Mosley

inspecting members of his British Union of Fascists

in Royal Mint Street, London, in October 1936.

Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images

Queen's Nazi salute video:

a royal home movie like no other

Saturday 18 July 2015 20.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/18/
queen-nazi-salute-video-royal-home-movie-

1930s-1940s

British fascism

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/25/
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http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/sep/15/
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/18/
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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/18/
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/18/
the-queen-nazi-salute-the-sun-photographs

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/12/
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/uk-fascism-oswald-mosley

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/apr/23/oswald-moseley-1934-archive

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/may/04/guardianobituaries.obituaries

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/dec/27/highereducation.britishidentity

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/sep/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview9

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/apr/23/biography.features1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/aug/14/britishidentity.biography

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/aug/14/guardianobituaries.thefarright

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/23/featuresreviews.guardianreview5

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/nov/14/artsandhumanities.past

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1934/jun/08/
thefarright.uk

Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists

Battle of Cable Street 1936

A demonstrator is taken away by police

as they try to stop fighting between anti-fascists and Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts

during the battle of Cable Street in October 1936.

Photograph: Associated Press/Eddie Worth/Alamy

‘I remember the exhilaration of the crowd and chanting’:

artist Steve McQueen on his experience of resistance and protest

Sun 2 Feb 2025 12.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/feb/02/
steve-mcqueen-resistance-turner-contemporary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Battle_of_Cable_Street

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/feb/02/
steve-mcqueen-resistance-turner-contemporary

https://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2017/mar/10/
countdown-to-the-second-world-war-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/25/
80-anniversary-battle-of-cable-street-celebrated

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/sep/30/thefarright.past

Oswald Mosley in Manchester February 1933

Rassemblement des chemises noires du fascistes anglais Oswald Mosley,

à Manchester, en février 1933.

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A lost heritage:

Nazi pictures reveal full devastation

wreaked by allied bombers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/10/
secondworldwar.germany

https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fotomarburg

enemy propaganda

National Archives

publish wartime propaganda in online gallery 13 June 2012

Hundreds of images of war art

including posters and a portrait of the future queen

are released online

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Category:War_art_in_The_National_Archives_%28United_Kingdom%29

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/13/
national-archives-wartime-propaganda-gallery

Ministry of Food Posters

A new exhibition at London's

Imperial War Museum (Feb 12 to Jan 3 2011)

pays tribute to a nation's creativity and resourcefulness

in the face of wartime – and peacetime – food rationing.

Here is some of the eye-catching

British Government propaganda

used on the 'Kitchen Front' during that time.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/7165696/
Vintage-Ministry-of-Food-posters.html

The following posters

were all used during the Second World War

to encourage austerity and stoicism

on Britain's home front.

They form part of an exhibition

at the Museum of Brands in London

entitled Make Do and Mend
(www.museumofbrands.com ;

020 79080880; 2 Colville Mews, Lonsdale Road,

Notting Hill, London W11 2AR).

The exhibition runs until November 29, 2010.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/6615752/
Waste-Not-Want-Not-wartime-posters.html

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/10/second-world-war

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/11/second-world-war

BBC Archive

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/