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This book focuses on the different fascist movements which have existed in Britain during the twentieth century from the British Fascists of the 1920s to the British National Party of the 1990s. Three main themes are covered in the book: an outline of the policies, tactics and ideologies of the different movements; a discussion of the notion of failure, and how that term should be applied to British fascism; and coverage of the different strengths of British political society which are seen to have prevented a breakthrough of British fascism in the arena of electoral politics.

The Failure of British Fascism: The Far Right and the Fight for Political Recognition

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Preface - Introduction: 'Tomorrow we live'. The Failure of British Fascism?; M.Cronin - The Extreme Right in the 1920s: Fascism in a Cold Climate; or 'Conservatism with Knobs on'?; D.Baker - State Management of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s; R.Thurlow - Oswald Mosley and the Union Movement: Success or Failure?; A.Poole - The Conservative Party, the British Extreme Right and the Problem of Political Space, 1967-1983; M.Durham - The Esoteric Ideology of the National Front in the 1980s; R.Eatwell - Contemporary Fascism in the Local Arena: the British National Party and 'Rights for Whites'; N.Copsey - British Fascism: The Ugly Duckling; R.Griffin - British Fascism re-visited: A Failure of Imagination?; K.Lunn - Index