Varieties of Anti-Fascism: Britain in the Inter-War Period

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction: Historians and the Study of Anti-Fascism in Britain....Pages 1-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Communist Culture and Anti-Fascism in Inter-War Britain....Pages 31-51
‘Every time they made a Communist, they made a Fascist’: The Labour Party and Popular Anti-Fascism in the 1930s....Pages 52-72
The Conservative Party, Fascism and Anti-Fascism 1918–1939....Pages 73-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Varieties of Feminist Responses to Fascism in Inter-War Britain....Pages 101-118
‘I was following the lead of Jesus Christ’: Christian Anti-Fascism in 1930s England....Pages 119-139
‘It certainly isn’t cricket!’ — Media Responses to Mosley and the BUF....Pages 140-161
Passive and Active Anti-Fascism: The State and National Security, 1923–45....Pages 162-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Anti-Fascist Europe Comes to Britain: Theorising Fascism as a Contribution to Defeating It....Pages 183-201
Labour Theorises Fascism: A. D. Lindsay and Harold Laski....Pages 202-223
The Limits of Pro-Fascism and Anti-Fascism: G. K. Chesterton and Arthur Bryant....Pages 224-244
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Anti-Fascism and the Post-War British Establishment....Pages 247-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-275