ABSTRACT
Historians have forged an increasingly sophisticated set of analytical tools through which to understand and interpret Fascism. This chapter presents a brief historiographical survey that aims to examine some of the main trends in the evolving historiography of British fascism and extreme right-wing politics before moving on to note a few examples from the present author's own approach to the subject which has wilfully added to this supposedly unnecessary 'outpouring of ink'. It attempts to historicise British fascism took place in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War when many understandably assumed that it was safe to speak of the phenomenon in the past tense. There are many known unknowns with regards the evolution of the post-war extreme right, and much remains to be said about local and transnational cultures and networks of mobilisation. The continued excavation of its post-war movements, ideologies and adherents will enable scholars to better map the continued morphology of extreme right-wing politics in Britain.
