Cover

Contents

Contributors’ Biographies

Introduction: Culture and the British Far Right

Part I: Cultural Perspectives: The British Far Right and Ideologies of Culture

Women and the Nation: The Right and Projections of Feminized Political Images in Great Britain, 1900–18

Reactionary Spectatorship: British Fascists and Cinema in Inter-War Britain

‘This Fortress Built Against Infection’ The BUF Vision of Britain’s Theatrical and Musical Renaissance

The Developing British Fascist Interpretation of Race, Culture and Evolution

Part II: Cultural Representations: Cultural Histories of British Fascism

Britain’s New Fascist Men: The Aestheticization of Brutality in British Fascist Propaganda

The Black Shirt in Britain: The Meanings and Functions of Political Uniform

The Blackshirts at Belle Vue: Fascist Theatre at a North-West Pleasure Ground 1

Purifying the Nation: Critiques of Cultural Decadence and Decline in British Neo-Fascist Ideology

Part III: Cultural Confrontations: Foreign Influences and Cultural Exchange

Anglo-Italian Fascist Solidarity? The Shift from Italophilia to Naziphilia in the BUF

Another Form of Fascism: The Cultural Impact of the French ‘Radical Right’ in Britain

The Far Right and the Back-to-the- Land Movement

Notes

Index