The British Union of Fascists: Newspapers and Secret Files, 1933‐1951

Abstract

The British Union of Fascists: Newspapers and Secret Files, 1933‐1951 is a collection of primary source resources relating to the British Union of Fascists (BUF), an infamous fascist and anti-Semitic political party formed by Sir Oswald Mosley in 1932. The collection includes full runs of four BUF official publications (Action, The Blackshirt, The East London Pioneer, and Fascist Week), hundreds of scanned government and MI5 documents relating to the surveillance and eventual internment of Mosley and his wife, and personal writings by the Mosleys and other prominent BUF members. Scanned from the original documents housed in the National Archives and digitized into high-quality images, these documents offer important insights into the rise of fascism in Britain during and after World War II for scholars of political history and propaganda. Created by the British Online Archives (a primary source database owned by Microform Academic Publishers), the collection is well organized and easily navigable, with full-text search capabilities.