ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys for the first time the myriad ways in which the crusades and crusading were employed in the interwar years in Britain. The reaction to General Franco and the Nationalists’ use of ‘cruzada’ medievalism in the Spanish Civil War is considered, as is the ways in which the First World War was commemorated and remembered. The interwar years in Britain contained new constructions of crusader medievalism (particularly by fascists) as well as adaptations of previous uses, but they also included older retrievals and survivals of prewar forms.
