What Did You Do During the War? The last throes of the British pro-Nazi Right, 1940–45

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Nomenclature
Introduction
Bibliography
Part I Puncturing myths about the ‘phoney war’ period
1 To fight or not to fight: The myth of Mosley’s patriotism
An individual case: Derek Stuckey
Mosley in the first year of the war.
May 1940: another misdated and misinterpreted quotation
Further prevarication, and another questionable document
Bibliography
Books
Documents
Newspapers and journals
2 The reception of Bryant’s Unfinished Victory: The myth of public unanimity against Nazi Germany in early 1940
Bryant and Macmillan
Bibliography
Books and articles
Documents
Newspapers and journals
Part II Peace and war, high-mindedness and low connections: the Duke of Bedford and the peace movement
3 Evangelical anticapitalism: The strange case of the Duke of Bedford
Early life
Pre-war political involvement
The ‘phoney war’
After May 1940
Bibliography
Books
Documents
Newspapers and journals
4 ‘How can the Germans honestly be blamed?’: The infiltration of the peace movement
The build-up to war
The fascist dimension
The ‘phoney war’
May 1940 onwards
Bibliography
Books and articles
Documents
Newspapers and journals
Part III Defence Regulation 18b and its after-effects
5 The watershed: The arrests of May–June 1940 and their aftermath
Aubrey Lees
Ben Greene
The effect of imprisonment upon the detainees
Bibliography
Books, articles and interviews
Documents
Newspapers
6 The re-emergence of extreme right-wing movements in Britain, 1940–5
The beginnings of organised political activity, and the formation of the BNP, followed by the ENA
The British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women
The British People’s Party
The Constitutional Research Association
Conclusion
Bibliography
Books and articles
Documents
Newspapers and journals
Part IV Renegades
7 ‘Long before 1939 I had become an admirer of the Nazi system’: Five British broadcasters for Nazi Germany
Miss Margaret Bothamley
Mrs (Frances) Dorothy Eckersley and James Clark
Henry William Wicks and Margaret Wicks
The sentences
Bibliography
Books and articles
Documents
Newspapers and journals
Part V Pro-Nazism, patriotism, hatred, fear, remorse: the extraordinary variety of motives among former ...
8 ‘Have you found many Lavals among your Galloway friends?’: Wartime and post-war disputes between three former ...
Dramatis personae
The build-up to war
The ‘phoney war’ (September 1939 to May 1940)
The effect of the DR 18B imprisonments in May–June 1940
More attacks and complications in 1941
John McKie’s deselection in 1945
Conclusion
Bibliography
Books and articles
Documents
Newspapers and journals
9 ‘I wrote a very full and strong letter to the King’: Two would-be negotiators
Bibliography
Books
Documents
Newspapers
10 ‘The internment of a person of her social standing might give the public a wrong impression’: The charmed lives ...
Lady Pearson and Viscountess Downe
Further prominent figures
Bibliography
Books and articles
Documents
Newspapers and journals
11 ‘His impetuous nature, obstinacy and flawed judgement’: A bull in a china shop
Bibliography
Books and articles
Documents
Newspapers and journals
12 ‘You know the Jewish racket as well as I do’: The vagaries of the ‘back-to-the-land’ school
Lord Lymington and Norman Hay
Rolf Gardiner
Henry Williamson
Francis Yeats-Brown
Captain George Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
John Coast
Bibliography
Books and articles
Documents
Newspapers and journals
Part VI Aftermath
13 ‘Change and decay in all around I see’: Further post-war decline
The extremist movements
The hard-liners: Gordon-Canning, Ramsay, Domvile, Leese
The ‘back-to-the-landers’
The African Connection
Lord Brocket and the Knoydart Land Seizures
Ben Greene and Cambridge University Press
Lord Sempill’s further financial ventures
Life goes on
Bibliography
Books, articles and interviews
Documents
Newspapers and journals
Conclusion
Appendix Rogues’ gallery
Allen, ‘Commandant’ Mary (1878–1964)
Amery, John (1912–1945)
Beckett, John (1894–1964)
Booth, Dr Meyrick, B.Sc. (Leeds), D.Phil (Jena) (b. 1883)
Bowman, Frederick (1893–1969)
Brooks, (William) Collin (1893–1959)
Burgess, Victor
Carroll, Cola Ernest (1896–1957)
Chesterton, Arthur Keith (1899–1973)
Collier, Captain Vincent
Creagh Scott, Lt- Colonel John (d.1957)
Domvile, Admiral Sir Barry (1878–1971)
Douglas, Major C.H. (1879–1952)
Findlay, Richard
Francis- Hawkins, Neil (1903–1950)
Fuller, Major-General J.F.C. (1878–1966)
Glasgow, 8th Earl of (Patrick James Boyle) (1874–1963)
Gordon-Canning, Captain Robert (1888–1967)
Hamilton, Gerald (1890–1970)
Hamm, Jeffrey (1915–92)
Houston, Richard A. (‘Jock’) (b. 1903)
Jenks, Jorian (1899–1963)
Joyce, William (1906–46)
Kitson, Arthur (1859–1937)
Laurie, Arthur Pillans (1861–1949)
Leese, Arnold (1878–1956)
Lintorn-Orman, Rotha (1895–1935)
Ludovici, Captain Anthony (1882–1971)
McGovern, John (1887–1968)
McNab, Angus (1906–77)
Mar, 12th Earl of (Walter John Francis Erskine) (1865–1955)
Mills, H.T. (‘Bertie’) (b. 1898)
Oddie, Air Commodore Gerard S. (1896–1985)
Philby, H. St John (1885–1960)
Ramsay, Captain Archibald Maule (‘Jock’) (1894–1955)
Riddell, Enid (1904–80)
Rogers, Captain Arthur
Scanlon, John
Soddy, Professor Frederick (1877–1956)
Verdon Roe, Sir Alliott (1877–1958)
Williamson, Hugh Ross (1901–78)
Wolkoff, Anna (1902–73)
Bibliography
Unpublished sources
The National Archives, Kew (TNA)
Caird Archive and Library, National Maritime Museum (NMM)
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College London (LHCMA)
Selwyn College, Cambridge Library (SCC)
Trinity College, Cambridge Library (TCC)
Hampshire Record Office (HRO)
Bodleian Library (Bod.)
In the possession of Mr Edward Greene
Newspapers and periodicals
National dailies, weeklies and Sundays
Specialist journals (including religious and political)
Scottish, Welsh and Irish papers
English local newspapers
Foreign newspapers
Books and articles (up to 1945)
Books and articles (post-1945)
Index