Jorian Jenks, when he was appointed British Union Parliamentary Candidate for Horsham and Worthing in 1936, was already well known to readers of "Action". The author of many brilliant articles on agriculture, sometimes as "Vergilius", was [...]
Air Commodore, Sir John Adrian Chamier K.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., was born in 1883. He was educated at St. Paul's School and R.M.C. Sandhurst and served in the Indian Army between 1902 and 1915. He [...]
Robert Saunders could probably have become Vice President of the National Farmers Union. However, before the election he announced that he wanted all those who supported him to know of his support for British Union and [...]
Wilfred Risdon was born in 1896 in Bath, the last of ten surviving children of a bespoke boot & shoe maker father, and shoe machinist mother, who died when Wilfred was fifteen. The family was probably [...]
The Earls Court Peace Rally was the largest indoor political meeting in the history of the world. It was held in London on Sunday 16 July 1939 - less than 7 weeks before Britain declared war [...]
Britain First - Exhibition Hall, Earls Court, July 16th, 1939 Fellow Britons, tonight the British people are here, (Cheers) and tonight from this great audience will be heard the voice of British people telling Parliament, [...]
Twenty year old AC2 Ken Day and twenty-two year old AC2 George Brocking, both Royal Air Force ground crew acting as volunteer air gunners for the day, died together when their Wellington L4275 was blown out [...]
Imprisonment Without Charge Or Trial. Prior to World War II, England had a long tradition of free speech that extended to criticism of government policy during war and to campaigns for peace. William Pitt campaigned against [...]
This is an examination of the revolutionary tradition of Syndicalism as an alternative to Socialism which has led in practical effect to the totalitarian regime of Communism on the Continent, and bureaucracy, direction of labour and [...]
Irelands Right to Unite When Entering European Union What interest has an Englishman in Ireland? The answer is that this Englishman proved his interest in Ireland and friendship for her people when, as the youngest [...]
Shortly before he died, my old friend Eric Hamilton Piercy asked me to set down the story of the small part we played in the rescue of the British Expeditionary Force from France in 1940 as [...]
Unemployment, Public Works, the Trade Unions The other sphere in which the government must give a decisive lead is in the organisation of public works on a great scale. In an island or even a [...]
How are we to regard the Union of Europe? - As something to be postponed so long as possible because it drags us out of our island fortress and exposes us to contact and competition with [...]
We British in particular can draw full warning from our past against the errors which all Europe is now committing. It is not a matter of theory but of fact that the chief industries of Britain [...]
Alliot Verdon Roe was born in 1877 in Patricroft, Manchester. His father was a Doctor and his mother was later famous for her work in organising and setting standards for day nurseries. His father had hoped [...]
This list contains a representative number of the members of British Union who gave their lives in the Second World War: Lionel Aitken, Squadron Leader, RAF 59 Squadron, killed in flying operations, Dunkirk. British Union “I” [...]
Free DOWNLOAD of 18b Detainees List in Pdf format Details of British Union members who were arrested, interrogated and imprisoned without charge or trial by the British Government under the notorious Regulation 18b during WW2. Many of these [...]
Without food there can be no life. Without adequate and wholesome food there can be no health. Good Government must ensure sufficient wholesome food for the health of the people. This is an overcrowded island, with [...]
The Daily Herald Lobby Correspondent: “Undoubtedly Sir Oswald Mosley’s speech was the event of the debate. Tory members discussing it with me afterwards seemed almost awed, such was the impression it made on them.” “The resignation of [...]
MR. BUCKLEY: Just after the First World War, a young British aristocrat, age 22, was elected to the House of Commons, and it has recently been remarked that Sir Oswald Mosley was the brightest man of [...]
The Film Star who became a member of the British Union of Fascists. Joan Morgan was born on 1 February 1905 at 13 St Germans Road, Forest Hill, London. She was the only child of Sidney [...]
The greatest achievement of Syndicalism, however, is likely to be in the European field. European Socialism, which is its modern form, stands for the Union of Europe on a Socialist basis. This has become necessary if [...]
In 1940 Mrs. Gladys Walsh (nee Libiter) became the last Womens District Leader for the Limehouse branch of British Union. This transcription comes from a recording made by the FOM Sound Archive on 6 July 1988. [...]
The double life of Walter Johnson, British Union District Leader Pudsey. On page 6 of ‘Blackshirts-on-Sea’ the author writes: “Any group study of Mosleyites inevitably comes to the conclusion that none of them could be described [...]
Before the War, Edward Jeffrey Hamm was a non-active member of British Union. He didn’t sell ‘Action’ on the streets, he wasn’t a speaker and he held no official position in his local Harrow branch. He [...]
How Churchill almost lost the War. Winston Churchill must have been a very unhappy man when he died in 1965. By then everything he set out to achieve had turned pear-shaped – mostly as the result [...]
Maurice Braddell: from William Joyce to Andy Warhol. In a February 1937 issue of ‘Action’ reviewing the recently released film ‘Beloved Enemy’ there was a suggestion that the star, actress Merle Oberon, was Jewish. This was [...]
NEIL FRANCIS-HAWKINS, Joined the British Fascists on their formation in the early 1920's, and he carried the bulk of the male membership from that declining organisation with him to join Oswald Mosley in his newly formed [...]