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  • Strange Journey: the life of Dorothy Eckersley

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    Meeting in Berlin Three days before the outbreak of the Second World War, William Joyce, the leader of the British Nazi group, the National Socialist League, was in Berlin. He and his wife, Margaret, had fled there fearing internment by the British government if war broke out. Yet as war...
    Strange Journey: the life of Dorothy Eckersley
  • The British Union of Fascists: the international dimension

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    Fascism failed in Britain in the 1930s – Europe’s decade of the ‘Brown plague’. Unlike in many European countries, fascists in Britain were never a serious threat to the democratic order. This was not for want of trying, especially on the part of Sir Oswald Mosley and his British Union...
    The British Union of Fascists: the international dimension