Graham Macklin
Biographic Data
| ID | 302878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Macklin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Macklin |
| SIGNATURE | MACKLIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5049-9749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Relational Dynamics of Violence Escalation and Inhibition During Far-Right Protest Waves
This article examines how interactions between far-right protestors, counter-protestors and other actors, including the police, lead towards and away from violence that exceeds normal levels relative to the groups under analysis. Based on four cases (Dover, United Kingdom 2015–2016; Sunderland, United Kingdom 2016–2018; Charlottesville, United States 2016–2017; Chemnitz, Germany 2018), and integrating interactionist approaches with relational and…
‘Jewry ueber Alles’: Antisemitic journals and activism in 1920s Britain
This article explores the role of the Britons Society, a small racial nationalist sect founded in 1919, in the propagation of conspiracist antisemitism in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the First World War. It focuses on its ideological output, aimed at cultivating an antisemitic ‘Jewwise’ mindset that viewed the fight against ‘the Jew’ as an eternal eschatological struggle. During its comparatively long life, the Britons published a volu…
Intergenerational conflict and the transformation of the British extreme right
The Extreme Right, Climate Change and Terrorism
“Eco-fascism” has recently regained prominence following two of the most lethal extreme right terrorist attacks: the murderous assault on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which killed fifty-one, and the massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, which killed twenty-two. Both of these attacks were justified by their perpetrators, at least in part, in environmental terms. Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch terrorist, went so far as to proclai…
How the “Internal Brakes” on Violent Escalation Work and Fail: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Intra-Group Processes of Restraint in Militant Groups
This article advances the emergent literature on restraint within militant groups in three ways. First, it offers a framework for situating the “internal brakes on violent escalation”—understood as the practices through which group members shape the outer limits of their action repertoires—in relation to the interplay between conflict dynamics, intra-group processes and individual-level decision making. Second, it develops a basic analytical stra…
John Tyndall
This chapter explores the political career of John Tyndall, an ardent national socialist revolutionary who had been active in Chesterton’s League of Empire Loyalists before he left to found the National Labour Party (NLP) with John Bean, which subsequently merged with Colin Jordan’s White Defence League (WDL) to become the British National Party (BNP) in 1960. Tyndall, who had become increasingly overt in his political stance, subsequently left t…
A.K. Chesterton
This chapter investigates the activities of A.K. Chesterton who, during the inter-war period, had been one of the most vituperative anti-Semitic propagandists active within Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF). He and Mosley parted company in 1937, the breach between the two men only growing with time. Chesterton held firmly to the inter-war creed of ‘Britain First’ nationalism after the war, carrying its torch forward as leader of the League…
Conclusion
The conclusion restates the key argument of the book regarding the overarching continuity of Britain’s extreme right tradition. It highlights the mutually entangled personal and political histories and ideological cleavages inherent within the tradition. It notes that, whilst its groups have come and gone, and its fortunes have ebbed and flowed, the durability of the extreme right tradition rests not upon political parties but upon a subcultural,…
Arnold Leese
This chapter explores the career of Arnold Leese, undoubtedly the United Kingdom’s only ‘anti-Jewish camel doctor’. Leese led the Imperial Fascist League (IFL), a minute anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi group, which veered between being a violent street organisation and little more than an anti-Semitic research circle during the course of its existence. The chapter explores the evolution of Leese’s political views and his particularly vituperative brand…
Colin Jordan
This chapter depicts the life and ideas of Colin Jordan, a national socialist revolutionary militant who moved from being a ‘Jew-wise’ activist and protégé of Arnold Leese to developing his own brand of pan-Aryan ‘universal’ Nazism which rejected the ‘narrow’ nationalism of the inter-war years. Jordan had been active in A.K. Chesterton’s League of Empire Loyalists (LEL) but fell out with Chesterton as a result of his increasing advocacy of racist…
Nick Griffin
This chapter examines the political career of Nick Griffin, a young racial nationalist who joined John Tyndall’s National Front (NF) in the mid-1970s, sticking with the group following its collapse in 1979, to become a leading light in its revolutionary nationalist ‘political soldier’ faction as it evolved during the 1980s. Having helped establish the International Third Position (ITP) group, Griffin drifted out of the group. He established a rep…
Sir Oswald Mosley
This chapter examines the political career of Sir Oswald Mosley, erstwhile leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), which changed its name in 1937 to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists (BUFNS), a reflection of the organisation’s increasingly pro-Nazi trajectory. The chapter focuses principally upon Mosley’s embrace of Fascism in 1932 and his transition from the leader of a group espousing a ‘Britain First’ brand of fascis…
Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right
This book provides a comprehensive history of the ideas and ideologues associated with the racial fascist tradition in Britain. It charts the evolution of the British extreme right from its post-war genesis after 1918 to its present-day incarnations, and details the ideological and strategic evolution of British fascism through the prism of its principal leaders and the movements with which they were associated. Taking a collective biographical a…
White Racial Nationalism in Britain: A History
Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice
White Racial Nationalism in Britain: A History
The fascist who would be king: Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk
Macklin and Fowlie explore the political life of Count Potocki de Montalk, a poet, pagan and pretender to the Polish throne. Count Potocki is perhaps most famous as a minor cause célèbre among London’s literary intelligentsia after his imprisonment for obscene libel in 1932. Historians, when they consider him at all, often discount him, viewing him as little more than a colourful eccentric, a view reinforced by Stephanie de Montalk’s fascinating …
Chicken suits and other aspects of situated credibility contests: Explaining Local Trajectories of Anti-Minority Activism
Why do some towns become focal points for anti-minority activism at particular moments in time, when other towns with similar socio-economic conditions do not? While policy practitioners charged with responding to such activity frequently ask this question, it has received less academic attention. Consequently, an adequate response falls between different strands of the academic literature on anti-minority politics.\nWe explore this question thro…
The internal brakes on violent escalation: A typology
Most groups do less violence than they are capable of. Yet while there is now an extensive literature on the escalation of or radicalisation towards violence, particularly by ‘extremist’ groups or actors, and while processes of de-escalation or de-radicalisation have also received significant attention, processes of non- or limited escalation have largely gone below the analytical radar. This article contributes to current efforts to address this…
Hopes and Fears: Community Cohesion and the 'White Working Class' in One of the 'Failed Spaces' of Multiculturalism
Since 2001, community cohesion has been an English policy concern, with accompanying media discourse portraying a supposed failure by Muslims to integrate. Latterly, academia has foregrounded White majority attitudes towards ethnic diversity, particularly those of the 'White working class'. While questioning this categorisation, we present data on attitudes towards diversity from low income, mainly White areas within Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, a t…
"Interpreting "Cumulative Extremism: Six Proposals for Enhancing Conceptual Clarity
The concept of “cumulative extremism”—described in 2006 by Roger Eatwell as “the way in which one form of extremism can feed off and magnify other forms [of extremism],” has recently gained considerable traction in academic, policy, and practitioner discourses about extremism. Yet in spite of the growing usage of the term, particularly in analyses of the dynamic between extreme Islamist and extreme Right-Wing or anti-Muslim protest groups, there …
The missing spirals of violence: Four waves of movement–countermovement contest in post-war Britain
Since the Second World War, Great Britain has witnessed a recurring escalation and de-escalation of confrontations between extreme right-wing or anti-minority protest groups on the one hand and, on the other, militant anti-fascist or anti-racist groups, and latterly also a number of extreme Islamist groups. In this article, we trace the outline of four waves of these movement–countermovement contests in order to engage critically with ideas of wh…
Onward Blackshirts!’ Music and the British Union of Fascists
Macklin explores the role of music in British fascism's ‘palingenetic’ project for national rebirth. Taking as his starting-point the cultural production and criticism of music emanating from within the British Union of Fascists (BUF), he argues that music played an integral part of the fascist experience, representing far more than mere ‘entertainment’. Macklin examines how the BUF used music to underpin party mobilization strategies, to anchor …
Transnational Networking on the Far Right: The Case of Britain and Germany
This article examines an aspect of transnational activity that is often neglected, namely the transnational activism of the far right. It uses a case study of the British National Party (BNP) and the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD – German National Democratic Party) in order to explore how its leaders and activists share ideas and information, policy and praxis, and how this is employed in the development of a strategic ‘master fr…
Transatlantic Connections and Conspiracies: A.K. Chesterton and The New Unhappy Lords
The internationalization of political antisemitism in the postwar period has received comparatively little scholarly attention. Studies of organized political antisemtism and far right extremism in postwar Britain has similarly suffered from a lack of focus on the increasingly transatlantic nature of the phenomenon. American scholars meanwhile have determined that the impetus for the ideological transmission of repackaged antisemitic tropes shift…
Transnational Networking on the Far Right: The Case of Britain and Germany
This article examines an aspect of transnational activity that is often neglected, namely the transnational activism of the far right. It uses a case study of the British National Party (BNP) and the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD – German National Democratic Party) in order to explore how its leaders and activists share ideas and information, policy and praxis, and how this is employed in the development of a strategic ‘master fr…
Co-opting the counter culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction
Formed in 1996 by former National Front activist Troy Southgate, the National Revolutionary Faction (NRF) is a ‘national-anarchist’ groupuscule. In contrast to the International Third Position, the reactionary Catholic fascist sect from which it emerged, the NRF promotes a radical anti-capitalist and anti-Marxist ‘anarchist’ agenda of autonomous rural communities within a decentralized, pan-European framework. While the NRF retains an ideological…
The Extreme Right, Climate Change and Terrorism
“Eco-fascism” has recently regained prominence following two of the most lethal extreme right terrorist attacks: the murderous assault on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which killed fifty-one, and the massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, which killed twenty-two. Both of these attacks were justified by their perpetrators, at least in part, in environmental terms. Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch terrorist, went so far as to proclai…
Hopes and Fears: Community Cohesion and the 'White Working Class' in One of the 'Failed Spaces' of Multiculturalism
Since 2001, community cohesion has been an English policy concern, with accompanying media discourse portraying a supposed failure by Muslims to integrate. Latterly, academia has foregrounded White majority attitudes towards ethnic diversity, particularly those of the 'White working class'. While questioning this categorisation, we present data on attitudes towards diversity from low income, mainly White areas within Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, a t…
The internal brakes on violent escalation: A typology
Most groups do less violence than they are capable of. Yet while there is now an extensive literature on the escalation of or radicalisation towards violence, particularly by ‘extremist’ groups or actors, and while processes of de-escalation or de-radicalisation have also received significant attention, processes of non- or limited escalation have largely gone below the analytical radar. This article contributes to current efforts to address this…
Onward Blackshirts!’ Music and the British Union of Fascists
Macklin explores the role of music in British fascism's ‘palingenetic’ project for national rebirth. Taking as his starting-point the cultural production and criticism of music emanating from within the British Union of Fascists (BUF), he argues that music played an integral part of the fascist experience, representing far more than mere ‘entertainment’. Macklin examines how the BUF used music to underpin party mobilization strategies, to anchor …
How the “Internal Brakes” on Violent Escalation Work and Fail: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Intra-Group Processes of Restraint in Militant Groups
This article advances the emergent literature on restraint within militant groups in three ways. First, it offers a framework for situating the “internal brakes on violent escalation”—understood as the practices through which group members shape the outer limits of their action repertoires—in relation to the interplay between conflict dynamics, intra-group processes and individual-level decision making. Second, it develops a basic analytical stra…
"Interpreting "Cumulative Extremism: Six Proposals for Enhancing Conceptual Clarity
The concept of “cumulative extremism”—described in 2006 by Roger Eatwell as “the way in which one form of extremism can feed off and magnify other forms [of extremism],” has recently gained considerable traction in academic, policy, and practitioner discourses about extremism. Yet in spite of the growing usage of the term, particularly in analyses of the dynamic between extreme Islamist and extreme Right-Wing or anti-Muslim protest groups, there …
The missing spirals of violence: Four waves of movement–countermovement contest in post-war Britain
Since the Second World War, Great Britain has witnessed a recurring escalation and de-escalation of confrontations between extreme right-wing or anti-minority protest groups on the one hand and, on the other, militant anti-fascist or anti-racist groups, and latterly also a number of extreme Islamist groups. In this article, we trace the outline of four waves of these movement–countermovement contests in order to engage critically with ideas of wh…
Transatlantic Connections and Conspiracies: A.K. Chesterton and The New Unhappy Lords
The internationalization of political antisemitism in the postwar period has received comparatively little scholarly attention. Studies of organized political antisemtism and far right extremism in postwar Britain has similarly suffered from a lack of focus on the increasingly transatlantic nature of the phenomenon. American scholars meanwhile have determined that the impetus for the ideological transmission of repackaged antisemitic tropes shift…
Chicken suits and other aspects of situated credibility contests: Explaining Local Trajectories of Anti-Minority Activism
Why do some towns become focal points for anti-minority activism at particular moments in time, when other towns with similar socio-economic conditions do not? While policy practitioners charged with responding to such activity frequently ask this question, it has received less academic attention. Consequently, an adequate response falls between different strands of the academic literature on anti-minority politics.\nWe explore this question thro…
The two lives of John Hooper Harvey
Macklin's article documents the two lives of noted architectural historian John Hooper Harvey, focusing on the inextricable link between his fted academic career and his involvement during the 1930s with the most extreme antisemitic and pro-Nazi group in Britain, the Imperial Fascist League, led by Arnold Leese. Macklin argues that Harvey's virulent antisemitism and his academic writing were part of an interconnected totality with one informing t…
The fascist who would be king: Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk
Macklin and Fowlie explore the political life of Count Potocki de Montalk, a poet, pagan and pretender to the Polish throne. Count Potocki is perhaps most famous as a minor cause célèbre among London’s literary intelligentsia after his imprisonment for obscene libel in 1932. Historians, when they consider him at all, often discount him, viewing him as little more than a colourful eccentric, a view reinforced by Stephanie de Montalk’s fascinating …
A quite natural and moderate defensive feeling’? The 1945 Hampstead ‘anti-alien’ petition
In October 1945 an ‘anti-alien’ petition was launched in the London Borough of Hampstead that, under the pretext of securing homes for returning ex-servicemen, campaigned for the removal of the district's predominantly Jewish refugee population. By examining the nature of support and opposition to the petition Macklin's local case study provides further evidence to suggest that reactions to those who had fled Nazi terror remained complex. Those w…
A quite natural and moderate defensive feeling’? The 1945 Hampstead ‘anti-alien’ petition
In October 1945 an ‘anti-alien’ petition was launched in the London Borough of Hampstead that, under the pretext of securing homes for returning ex-servicemen, campaigned for the removal of the district's predominantly Jewish refugee population. By examining the nature of support and opposition to the petition Macklin's local case study provides further evidence to suggest that reactions to those who had fled Nazi terror remained complex. Those w…
Co-opting the counter culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction
Formed in 1996 by former National Front activist Troy Southgate, the National Revolutionary Faction (NRF) is a ‘national-anarchist’ groupuscule. In contrast to the International Third Position, the reactionary Catholic fascist sect from which it emerged, the NRF promotes a radical anti-capitalist and anti-Marxist ‘anarchist’ agenda of autonomous rural communities within a decentralized, pan-European framework. While the NRF retains an ideological…
‘Hail Mosley and F’ Em All’: Martyrdom, Transcendence and the ‘Myth’ of Internment
This article examines the varying experiences of British fascists interned without trial in May 1940. As Arthur Koestler noted in his 1952 Arrow in the Blue, ‘to be converted or convinced is a more or less sharply defined act; to lose a conviction is a long process of wear and tear’. By understanding internment to have represented just such a ‘watershed’, the experience of British fascists is revealed as a fascinating case study of political reli…
Major Hugh Pollard, Mi6, and the Spanish Civil War
The recently released Special Operations Executive (SOE) personal file of Major Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard (HS 9/1200/5) sheds new light on the man who helped fly General Franco from the Canary Islands to Morocco, leading ultimately to the overthrow of the democratically elected republican government and thirty-six years of brutal dictatorship. Contrary to the previous portrayal of Pollard, a genial, rough-and-ready gung-ho ‘adventurer’ who fle…
No Power on Earth can Remove his Liability’: Emperor Haile Selassie and the Foreign Office, a Documentary Essay
Using the newly released unregistered files of the Foreign Office Permanent Under Secretary's Department (PUSD) Macklin's documentary article examines an interesting, if somewhat arcane, ‘missing dimension’ in the history of Abyssinian Emperor Ras Tafari Makonnen, more commonly known as Haile Selassie, and his covert financial relationship with the British government following his exile to Britain in 1936 after the conquest of his country by Muss…
The two lives of John Hooper Harvey
Macklin's article documents the two lives of noted architectural historian John Hooper Harvey, focusing on the inextricable link between his fted academic career and his involvement during the 1930s with the most extreme antisemitic and pro-Nazi group in Britain, the Imperial Fascist League, led by Arnold Leese. Macklin argues that Harvey's virulent antisemitism and his academic writing were part of an interconnected totality with one informing t…
A Fascist ‘Jihad’: Captain Robert Gordon-Canning, British Fascist Antisemitism and Islam
Little exists in the literature on British fascism to suggest the pivotal importance of Palestine to British antisemites and fascists during the interwar period. This lacuna is especially surprising given that Britain was the Mandatory power in Palestine from 1920 until 1948. This study explores the interaction between British fascists and Palestinian Arabs during the interwar period and the immediate aftermath of the Second World War through the…
Transatlantic Connections and Conspiracies: A.K. Chesterton and The New Unhappy Lords
The internationalization of political antisemitism in the postwar period has received comparatively little scholarly attention. Studies of organized political antisemtism and far right extremism in postwar Britain has similarly suffered from a lack of focus on the increasingly transatlantic nature of the phenomenon. American scholars meanwhile have determined that the impetus for the ideological transmission of repackaged antisemitic tropes shift…
Onward Blackshirts!’ Music and the British Union of Fascists
Macklin explores the role of music in British fascism's ‘palingenetic’ project for national rebirth. Taking as his starting-point the cultural production and criticism of music emanating from within the British Union of Fascists (BUF), he argues that music played an integral part of the fascist experience, representing far more than mere ‘entertainment’. Macklin examines how the BUF used music to underpin party mobilization strategies, to anchor …
Transnational Networking on the Far Right: The Case of Britain and Germany
This article examines an aspect of transnational activity that is often neglected, namely the transnational activism of the far right. It uses a case study of the British National Party (BNP) and the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD – German National Democratic Party) in order to explore how its leaders and activists share ideas and information, policy and praxis, and how this is employed in the development of a strategic ‘master fr…
The missing spirals of violence: Four waves of movement–countermovement contest in post-war Britain
Since the Second World War, Great Britain has witnessed a recurring escalation and de-escalation of confrontations between extreme right-wing or anti-minority protest groups on the one hand and, on the other, militant anti-fascist or anti-racist groups, and latterly also a number of extreme Islamist groups. In this article, we trace the outline of four waves of these movement–countermovement contests in order to engage critically with ideas of wh…
"Interpreting "Cumulative Extremism: Six Proposals for Enhancing Conceptual Clarity
The concept of “cumulative extremism”—described in 2006 by Roger Eatwell as “the way in which one form of extremism can feed off and magnify other forms [of extremism],” has recently gained considerable traction in academic, policy, and practitioner discourses about extremism. Yet in spite of the growing usage of the term, particularly in analyses of the dynamic between extreme Islamist and extreme Right-Wing or anti-Muslim protest groups, there …
The internal brakes on violent escalation: A typology
Most groups do less violence than they are capable of. Yet while there is now an extensive literature on the escalation of or radicalisation towards violence, particularly by ‘extremist’ groups or actors, and while processes of de-escalation or de-radicalisation have also received significant attention, processes of non- or limited escalation have largely gone below the analytical radar. This article contributes to current efforts to address this…
Hopes and Fears: Community Cohesion and the 'White Working Class' in One of the 'Failed Spaces' of Multiculturalism
Since 2001, community cohesion has been an English policy concern, with accompanying media discourse portraying a supposed failure by Muslims to integrate. Latterly, academia has foregrounded White majority attitudes towards ethnic diversity, particularly those of the 'White working class'. While questioning this categorisation, we present data on attitudes towards diversity from low income, mainly White areas within Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, a t…
The fascist who would be king: Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk
Macklin and Fowlie explore the political life of Count Potocki de Montalk, a poet, pagan and pretender to the Polish throne. Count Potocki is perhaps most famous as a minor cause célèbre among London’s literary intelligentsia after his imprisonment for obscene libel in 1932. Historians, when they consider him at all, often discount him, viewing him as little more than a colourful eccentric, a view reinforced by Stephanie de Montalk’s fascinating …
Chicken suits and other aspects of situated credibility contests: Explaining Local Trajectories of Anti-Minority Activism
Why do some towns become focal points for anti-minority activism at particular moments in time, when other towns with similar socio-economic conditions do not? While policy practitioners charged with responding to such activity frequently ask this question, it has received less academic attention. Consequently, an adequate response falls between different strands of the academic literature on anti-minority politics.\nWe explore this question thro…
John Tyndall
This chapter explores the political career of John Tyndall, an ardent national socialist revolutionary who had been active in Chesterton’s League of Empire Loyalists before he left to found the National Labour Party (NLP) with John Bean, which subsequently merged with Colin Jordan’s White Defence League (WDL) to become the British National Party (BNP) in 1960. Tyndall, who had become increasingly overt in his political stance, subsequently left t…
A.K. Chesterton
This chapter investigates the activities of A.K. Chesterton who, during the inter-war period, had been one of the most vituperative anti-Semitic propagandists active within Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF). He and Mosley parted company in 1937, the breach between the two men only growing with time. Chesterton held firmly to the inter-war creed of ‘Britain First’ nationalism after the war, carrying its torch forward as leader of the League…
Conclusion
The conclusion restates the key argument of the book regarding the overarching continuity of Britain’s extreme right tradition. It highlights the mutually entangled personal and political histories and ideological cleavages inherent within the tradition. It notes that, whilst its groups have come and gone, and its fortunes have ebbed and flowed, the durability of the extreme right tradition rests not upon political parties but upon a subcultural,…
Arnold Leese
This chapter explores the career of Arnold Leese, undoubtedly the United Kingdom’s only ‘anti-Jewish camel doctor’. Leese led the Imperial Fascist League (IFL), a minute anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi group, which veered between being a violent street organisation and little more than an anti-Semitic research circle during the course of its existence. The chapter explores the evolution of Leese’s political views and his particularly vituperative brand…
Colin Jordan
This chapter depicts the life and ideas of Colin Jordan, a national socialist revolutionary militant who moved from being a ‘Jew-wise’ activist and protégé of Arnold Leese to developing his own brand of pan-Aryan ‘universal’ Nazism which rejected the ‘narrow’ nationalism of the inter-war years. Jordan had been active in A.K. Chesterton’s League of Empire Loyalists (LEL) but fell out with Chesterton as a result of his increasing advocacy of racist…
Nick Griffin
This chapter examines the political career of Nick Griffin, a young racial nationalist who joined John Tyndall’s National Front (NF) in the mid-1970s, sticking with the group following its collapse in 1979, to become a leading light in its revolutionary nationalist ‘political soldier’ faction as it evolved during the 1980s. Having helped establish the International Third Position (ITP) group, Griffin drifted out of the group. He established a rep…
Sir Oswald Mosley
This chapter examines the political career of Sir Oswald Mosley, erstwhile leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), which changed its name in 1937 to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists (BUFNS), a reflection of the organisation’s increasingly pro-Nazi trajectory. The chapter focuses principally upon Mosley’s embrace of Fascism in 1932 and his transition from the leader of a group espousing a ‘Britain First’ brand of fascis…
Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right
This book provides a comprehensive history of the ideas and ideologues associated with the racial fascist tradition in Britain. It charts the evolution of the British extreme right from its post-war genesis after 1918 to its present-day incarnations, and details the ideological and strategic evolution of British fascism through the prism of its principal leaders and the movements with which they were associated. Taking a collective biographical a…
White Racial Nationalism in Britain: A History
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