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Contains 11 Results:

Richard Reynell Bellamy. We marched with Mosley: a British Fascist’s view of the twentieth century. (Abridged version, Volume 1), c1989

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/5
Scope and Contents (Upminster), [1989]. [Typescript, photocopy]. Bellamy was a National Inspector and the last Director of Propaganda of the BUF. The author’s original memoir, which formed a history of the British Union of Fascists, was intended for publication but in the event not published. At one point it was prepared for publication by being abridged in three separate volumes, which were given the titles “We marched with Mosley”, “Memoirs of a Fascist beast” and “Mosley in perspective”. During this...
Dates: c1989

Arthur Beavan. Diary entries from: 12th May 1941 to: 26th October 1941, 12 May - 26 October 1941

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/7
Scope and Contents

(Huyton and Peel, 1941). Manuscript, photocopy. Beavan was West Ham District Leader and was interned during the period covered by the Diary. 18B Internment period

Dates: 12 May - 26 October 1941

Charlie Watts. It has happened here: the experience of a political prisoner in British prisons and concentration camps during the fifth column panic of 1940/41, 1944 - 1966

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/8
Scope and Contents

[Unpublished p., 1941, c.1948 - 1966] Typescript, photocopy. The memoir includes a ‘Last Chapter’ update written in 1966. Watts was Westminster St. George District Leader. Covers the 18B Internment period.

Dates: 1944 - 1966

Heather Donovan. ‘Extracts from a letter to my cousin’ regarding imprisonment under Regulation 18B 1940-42, written by Yvonne Heather Fitzgerald Donovan (neé Bond) in the Summer of 1953, 1953

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/9
Scope and Contents

[Unpublished], 1953. Manuscript, photocopy. Donovan was Women’s District Leader for Westminster St. George’s and the wife of Captain Bryan Donovan, Asst. Director General (O) of British Union.

Dates: 1953

Frederick Edward Burdett. Newspaper cuttings book, 1933 - 1940

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/10
Scope and Contents Most of the articles and letters are the work of Burdett, many appearing pseudonymously (“Frederick Edward[e]s”, “Cratos”). Also included are newspaper reports of the arrest of BU members in 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B, amongst which Burdett appears (unnamed) giving the fascist salute on leaving NHQ after his arrest, as does his wife (also unnamed). Burdett was a BU member from 1933 and District Leader of Peckham from September 1937. At the time of his arrest in May 1940 he was...
Dates: 1933 - 1940

"Arrest and imprisonment under regulation 18b. November 1940 - November 1941. As experienced by Miss C.L. Fisher (now Mrs. Irvine.)", [1950s - 1960s]

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/11
Scope and Contents

Typescript, photocopy [6 ll.] Copied from a copy in the John Beckett Collection by permission of the author. Fisher was Women’s District Leader in Birmingham. 18B Internment period.

Dates: [1950s - 1960s]

“Arrest and imprisonment under regulation 18b. June 1940 - November 1941. As experienced by Mr S.L. Irvine", [1950s] - 2000

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/12
Scope and Contents

Typescript, photocopy] [6 ll.] Copied from a copy in the John Beckett Collection by permission of Mrs Irvine. Together with transcription of p1-2, partly illegible. Irvine was District Leader in Birmingham. 18B Internment period.

Dates: [1950s] - 2000

Fay Taylour. “Your attention is arrested - under Defence Regulation 18-B”, [1950s - 1960s]

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/13
Scope and Contents

Typescript, photocopy [23 ll.] Includes an account of the author’s experiences after release. Together with other background information: a letter from Jeffrey Wallder and some Web information on motor-cycle activities Taylour was a BU member and also a Right Club member, and a prominent female motor-cycle racing competitor 18B Internment period.

Dates: [1950s - 1960s]

Transcript of an Interview with Blanche Greaves, from the Friends of Oswald Mosley Archive, 1992

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/14
Scope and Contents

Recorded September 9, 1992 by Jeffrey Wallder. Transcribed by Julie Gottlieb. Typescript, photocopy. 26 ll. A copy of the tape recording is in the Blackshirts in Kingston Project Collection. Greaves was Women’s District Leader in Kingston-upon-Thames, 1934-40 BUF period (with brief references to later periods).

Dates: 1992

Gladys Walsh. Interview 6th July 1988, from the Friends of Oswald Mosley Archive., 6 July 1988

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/15
Scope and Contents

(a) Interview with Mrs Gladys Walsh, 6th July 1988, from the Friends of Oswald Mosley Archive. Audio tape-recording. 60 mins. (b) Transcript of an Interview with Mrs Gladys Walsh, from the Friends of Oswald Mosley Archive. Transcribed by Julie Gottlieb. Typescript, photocopy 11 ll. Walsh was appointed District Leader, Limehouse, in 1939. BUF period (with references to later periods).

Dates: 6 July 1988

John Warburton. “Blackshirt looks back: inside the BUF 1932-1940”, [1988]

 Item — Box: BU Box 14
Reference code: 187/5/16
Scope and Contents

Typescript, photocopy, manuscript amendments. Annotated “Original slightly amended but unfinished m/s”. Includes acknowledgement to Jeffrey Wallder. John Warburton was British Union Assistant District Leader Sales for Clapham, founder member of the Union Movement and founding editor of ‘Comrade’ (the newsletter of the Friends of Oswald Mosley). He died in 2004. BUF period.

Dates: [1988]