Cultures of Post-War British Fascism

Nigel Copsey is Professor of Modern History at Teesside University. He is the author of Anti-Fascism in Britain (2000) and Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy (2004; 2008). He is also co-editor of British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State (2005); Varieties of Anti-Fascism: Britain in the Inter-War Period (2010); and British National Party: Contemporary Perspectives (2011). With Graham Macklin, he is series editor of Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right. John E. Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. His research interests include structured social inequalities, British fascism, critical discourse studies and argumentation. His recent books include Analysing Fascist Discourse (co-edited with Wodak, 2013), Advances in Critical Discourse Studies (co-edited with Krzyżanowski, Machin, Wodak 2014) and Language and Journalism (2010). He is currently writing a book analysing the multimedia discourses of British fascism (Ibidem Verlag). He is Editor of the international journal Critical Discourse Studies.

• Introduction 1. Cultural regeneration :Mosley and the Union Movement 2. History and cultural heritage: The far right and the ‘Battle for Britain’ 3. Cultures of space: Spatialising the National Front 4. Securing the future of our race: Women in the culture of the modern-day BNP 5. British neo-Nazi fiction: Colin Jordan’s Merrie England – 2000 and The Uprising 6.When popular culture met the far right: Cultural encounters with post-war British fascism 7. Subcultural style: Fashion and Britain’s extreme right 8. British, European and White: Cultural constructions of identity in post-war British fascist music 9. Nazi punks folk off: Leisure, nationalism, cultural identity and the consumption of metal and folk music 10. The ‘cultic milieu’ of Britain’s ‘New Right’: Meta-political ‘fascism’ in contemporary Britain 11. ‘Cultural-Marxism’ and the British National Party: A transnational discourse

"For years scholars denied the very existence of a fascist culture and largely ignored post-war developments of fascism as a political force. Cultures of Post-war British Fascism lies at the cutting edge of the new wave in fascist studies. It reveals the complex ideological, creative, and mythic contortions of British fascists who still find ways to assert the imminent or ultimate triumph of their race and creed over decadence and the new enemies of national rebirth despite the drastic shrinking of fascism’s political space since 1945." Professor Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University."This exciting new collection of essays, by the leaders in the field of British fascist studies, offers the first and a very illuminating cultural perspective on the post-war extreme Right in Britain. It follows the major paradigm shift in fascist studies to a cultural interpretation of political belief systems. By exposing the way post-war fascists have engaged with, aped, and tried to destabilize both high and popular culture in Britain, this in-depth study will make us better equipped to challenge the appeal of fascism."Dr Julie Gottlieb, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sheffield