Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism |
Editors | John Stone, Rutledge M. Dennis, Polly Rizova, Anthony D. Smith, Xiaoshuo Hou |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
ISBN (Print) | 9781405189781 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2016 |
Abstract
Sir Oswald Mosley was one of the most controversial British politicians of the twentieth century. He was elected twice as a Member of Parliament (1918-24 and 1929-31) and was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The only significant figure in inter-war British fascism, he founded the New Party in 1931 and, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists, which was associated with anti-Semitism and violence. He was interned by the British government during the Second World War and in the post-war period created the Union Movement. He died on 3 December 1980.