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This volume of essays by a number of the foremost experts in the field examines the varieties of anti-fascism in inter-war Britain. Anti-fascism between the wars is still most frequently associated with the extreme left and its violent street confrontations with Mosley's British Union of Fascists. By extending the scope of anti-fascism to include centre and right-wing opinion, and a wide range of institutions, this book breaks new ground. Chapters examine the state, political parties of left and right, the media, the churches, the involvement of women, and the responses of intellectuals. It also discusses the impact of European anti-fascist exiles and the legacy of anti-fascism on the post-war British Establishment.
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Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Historians and the Study of Anti-fascism
A.Olechnowicz PART I: POLITICAL PARTIES Communist Culture and Anti-fascism in Inter-war Britain
T. Linehan 'Every time they made a Communist, they made a Fascist': the Labour Party and Popular Anti-fascism in the 1930s
N.Copsey The Conservative Party, Fascism and Anti-fascism 1918-1939
P.Williamson PART II: CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE STATE Varieties of Feminist Responses to Fascism in inter-war Britain
J.Gottlieb 'I was following the lead of Jesus Christ': Christian Anti-fascism in 1930s England
T.Lawson 'It certainly isn't cricket!': Media Responses to Mosley and the BUF
J.Dack Passive and Active Anti-fascism: the State and National Security, 1923-45
R.Thurlow PART III: INTELLECTUAL RESPONSES Anti-fascist Europe comes to Britain: Theorising Fascism as a Contribution to Defeating it
D.Stone Labour Theorises Fascism: A.D. Lindsay and Harold Laski
A.Olechnowicz The Limits of Pro-fascism and Anti-fascism: G.K. Chesterton and Arthur Bryant
J.Stapleton PART IV: FINAL PERSPECTIVES Anti-fascism and the Post-war British Establishment
R.Griffiths Conclusion: Towards a New Anti-fascist 'minimum'?
N.Copsey Index
