The Britons
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Successor | Britons Publishing Society (incorporated 1922) (dissolved and defunct, 1975) |
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Formation | 1919 |
Founder | Henry Hamilton Beamish |
Dissolved | 1931 (chiefly limited to publishing house and its sponsorship) |
Type | Nationalism Antisemitism Racial discrimination Cultural conservatism |
Purpose | Political organisation and publisher |
Location | |
Key people | John Henry Clarke |
The Britons was an English
According to historian Sharman Kadish, The Britons was "the most extreme group disseminating anti-Semitic propaganda in the early 1920s - indeed the first organisation set up in Britain for this express purpose."[1]
History
The group was founded in London in 1919 by
The Britons continued under John Henry Clarke, an advocate of
The group claimed that its only aim was to get rid of all the Jews in Britain by forcing them to emigrate to
They also published anti-Semitic books including a translation, allegedly by
Short of funding, The Britons was little more than the board of the publishing "house" after Clarke's death in 1931, soon run by solicitor James D. Dell until 1949.
See also
References
- ^ Kadish 2013, p. 38.
- ^ a b Toczek 2016, p. 83.
- ^ Toczek 2016, p. 38.
- ^ Toczek 2016, p. 269.
- ^ Toczek 2016, p. 85.
- ^ Toczek 2016, p. 94.
- ^ Toczek 2016, p. 96.
- ^ Toczek 2016, p. 257.
Bibliography
- Benewick, Robert (1969). Political Violence & Public Order: A Study of British Fascism. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0713900859.
- Kadish, Sharman (2013). Bolsheviks and British Jews: The Anglo-Jewish Community, Britain and the Russian Revolution. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-72793-3.
- ISBN 978-1-349-04000-1.
- Toczek, Nick (2016). Haters, Baiters and Would-be Dictators: Anti-Semitism and the UK Far Right (Abingdon: Routledge).
Further reading
- Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion) (London: The Britons, 1920)
External links
- Paul Cox, 1999, Mad Dogs and Englishman, Part One: The so-called fifth column