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  2. British Union of Fascists - Wikipedia

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    The BUF claimed 50,000 members at one point, [23] and the Daily Mail, running the headline "Hurrah for the Blackshirts!", was an early supporter. [24] The first Director of Propaganda, appointed in February 1933, was Wilfred Risdon, who was responsible for organising all of Mosley's public meetings.

  3. Daily Mail - Wikipedia

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    The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. It was founded in 1896. As of 2020, it has the highest circulation of paid newspapers in the UK. [ 5] Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982, a Scottish edition was launched in 1947, and an Irish edition in 2006.

  4. The Blackshirt - Wikipedia

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    The Blackshirt was the official newspaper of Oswald Mosley 's British Union of Fascists (BUF) from 1933 until 1936. After the launch of Action in 1936, The Blackshirt declined in importance. An attempt was made to reorganise it as a regional paper in "Southern" (the Midlands, Wales, the West, and South West and the East), "East London" (Greater ...

  5. Stewards (paramilitary organisation) - Wikipedia

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    The Stewards, also informally referred to as Blackshirts, were the paramilitary wing of the British Union of Fascists (BUF). [1] They served a similar role as the Blackshirts of the National Fascist Party of Italy and also wore black uniforms. The Stewards were officially an organization of guards to protect Oswald Mosley and eject groups of ...

  6. Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere - Wikipedia

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    Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, PC (26 April 1868 – 26 November 1940) was a leading British newspaper proprietor who owned Associated Newspapers Ltd. He is best known, like his brother Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, for the development of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror. Rothermere was a pioneer of ...

  7. George Ward Price - Wikipedia

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    After the violence during a BUF rally at Olympia Stadium on 8 June 1934 when a group of hecklers from the British Communist Party were violently ejected by the Blackshirts, Ward Price wrote in the Daily Mail: "If the Blackshirts movement had any need of justification, the Red Hooligans who savagely and systematically tried to wreck Sir Oswald ...

  8. Blackshirts - Wikipedia

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    History. Blackshirts with Benito Mussolini during the March on Rome, 28 October 1922. Parade of the Blackshirts on Corso Libertà in Bolzano, c. 1930. Blackshirts on Piazza di Siena [ it] in Rome, 1936. The Blackshirts were established as the Squadrismo in 1919 and consisted of many disgruntled former soldiers.

  9. Battle of Cable Street - Wikipedia

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    Battle of South Street – an incident between BUF members and anti-fascists in Worthing on 9 October 1934. Battle of De Winton Field – a clash between BUF members and anti-fascists in the Rhondda on 11 June 1936. Battle of Holbeck Moor – a clash between BUF members and anti-fascists in Leeds on 27 September 1936.