British Fascism, 1918–1939

Parties, ideology and culture

Thomas Linehan

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2021
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526162199
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

A major new and balanced study of British Facism which surveys the development of British fascism between 1918 and 1939. Provides an accessible guide to the essential features of British fascism in the interwar period. Considers a previously under-researched area of British fascism, namely fascism and culture. Explores the various definitions of fascism, before moving on to analyse the origins of British fascism, the fascist parties and groups, fascism and culture, the membership, and British fascist antisemitism.

INDEX

Note: literary works can be found under authors’ names.

abdication crisis (December 1936) 105

Allen, W. E. D. (‘James Drennan’) 15, 88, 225, 233, 245, 252, 256, 257, 261, 263

Amery, Leopold 19

Anderson, G. D. 77

Angles 143

Anglo-German Fellowship 46

Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921) 39

Anglo-Irish War (1919–21) see Irish ‘Troubles’

anti-Americanism 222–3, 231, 234, 237

anti-Bolshevism 43–5, 47–9, 54, 64, 66, 142, 154, 235, 246, 261, 264, 282

anti-capitalism 16, 32, 256, 263–4, 283

anti-city 8, 28–30, 32, 233, 239, 245–7, 282

anti-communism see anti-Bolshevism

anti-conservatism 5

anti-decadence 5, 29, 223–40, 245, 280–2

anti-democracy 15–16, 20–1, 29, 75, 90–1, 124, 127, 135–6, 206

anti-fascism 103, 106–7

Anti-German Union 44

anti-Germanism 47–9

anti-intellectualism 10, 239–40, 245, 281

anti-liberalism 5, 14, 16, 223, 234

anti-machine 31–2, 42, 203, 257–64

anti-Marxism 5, 133

anti-materialism 5, 10, 32, 129–30, 229, 237, 261

anti-modernity 8–10, 31–3, 76–7, 93–4, 249–50, 255–6, 262–4, 269, 272–3

anti-positivism 5, 10, 33, 261–2

anti-psychoanalysis 193, 233, 236–7, 281

see also Freud, Sigmund

anti-rationalism 5, 10, 33–4, 240

anti-semitism 27, 45–54, 67, 74, 78, 79, 99, 103, 109, 111, 127, 133, 135, 137, 138, 143–4, 176–96, 235–6, 282–4

anthropological roots of fascist anti-semitism 183–4

discourse theory of...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
• INTRODUCTION: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF FASCIST STUDIES
• ONE Origins and progenitors
• TWO The early postwar context and the pre-fascist groups: incipient fascism?
• THREE The arrival of fascism: the British Fascisti and the Imperial Fascist League
• FOUR The British Union of Fascists
• FIVE The minor parties, ‘one-man bands’ and some fellow-travellers
• SIX The membership
• SEVEN British fascism and anti-semitism
• EIGHT Defining culture
• NINE A host of ‘decadent’ phenomena
• TEN The city, the countryside and the machine
• ELEVEN Responding to the visual arts: British fascism and artistic modernism
• SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX