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The Dorril Blackshirt Collection

 Collection
Reference code: 366

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of documents, correspondence, articles and research notes collected and created by Dr Stephen Dorril, of the University of Huddersfield, when researching his book “Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism”, published in 2006.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the external documents section below.

Dates

  • Creation: 1930 - 2002

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Available by appointment, certain material may be restricted.

Copyright

Various, according to document

Biographical / Historical

Stephen Dorril has been an author, researcher and investigative journalist since 1986, and has written articles for major newspapers and appeared on radio and television programmes as a consultant and specialist on the security and intelligence services. His central interest is in the relationship between states/governments and the security and intelligence services, principally in the British context. He is a member of research staff at the University of Huddersfield, where he supervises research students in aspects of post-war activities of the British intelligence and security services, the history of journalism and cultural studies. He is a member of the Study Group on Intelligence and is director of the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Oral History (COHR).

Extent

26 Box(es)

33 Volume(s)

Language of Materials

English

Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Western Bank Library
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
+44 (0) 114 222 7299