ABSTRACT

In Post-War Britain cultural interventions were a feature of fascist parties and movements, just as they were in Europe. This book makes a new major contribution to existing scholarship which begins to discuss British fascism as a cultural phenomenon. A collection of essays from leading academics, this book uncovers how a cultural struggle lay at the heart of the hegemonic projects of all varieties of British fascism. Such a cultural struggle is enacted and reflected in the text and talk, music and literature of British fascism.

Where other published works have examined the cultural visions of British fascism during the inter-war period, this book is the first to dedicate itself to detailed critical analysis of the post-war cultural landscapes of British fascism. Through discussions of cultural phenomena such as folk music, fashion and neo-nazi fiction, among others, Cultures of Post-War British Fascism builds a picture of Post-War Britain which emphasises the importance of understanding these politics with reference to their corresponding cultural output.

This book is essential reading for undergraduates and postgraduates studying far right politics and British history.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|19 pages

Cultural Regeneration

Mosley and the Union Movement

chapter 2|22 pages

History and cultural heritage

The far right and the ‘Battle for Britain'

chapter 3|19 pages

Cultures of space

Spatialising the National Front

chapter 4|18 pages

Securing the future of our race

Women in the culture of the modern-day BNP

chapter 5|22 pages

British neo-Nazi fiction

Colin Jordan's Merrie England – 2000 and The Uprising

chapter 6|20 pages

When popular culture met the far right

Cultural encounters with post-war British fascism

chapter 7|14 pages

Subcultural style

Fashion and Britain's extreme right

chapter 8|19 pages

British, European and white

Cultural constructions of identity in post-war British fascist music

chapter 9|16 pages

Nazi punks folk off

Leisure, nationalism, cultural identity and the consumption of metal and folk music 1

chapter 10|25 pages

The ‘cultic milieu' of Britain's ‘New Right’

Meta-political ‘fascism' in contemporary Britain

chapter 11|25 pages

‘Cultural Marxism' and the British National Party

A transnational discourse