Richard Thurlow

Richard C. Thurlow is a historian of Fascism in Britain. He is a graduate of the University of York and the University of Sussex and now an honorary lecturer at the University of Sheffield where he formerly taught.^[1]

Selected publications

Articles

• "Powers of Darkness: Conspiracy, Belief and Political Strategy." Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 12, No. 6, 1978, pp. 1–12, 23. doi:10.1080/0031322X.1978.9969469.
• "Jew Wise: Dimensions of British Political Anti-semitism, 1918-1939." Immigrants and Minorities, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1987, pp. 44–65.
• "British Fascism and State Surveillance, 1934-45." Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 1, 1988, pp. 77–99.
• "'A Very Clever Capitalist Class': British Communism and State Surveillance, 1939-1945." Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 12, No. 2, April 1997.
• "The Guardian of the 'Sacred Flame': The Failed Political Resurrection of Sir Oswald Mosley after 1945." Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 33, No. 2, April 1998, pp. 241–254. JSTOR 260975.
• "The Evolution of the Mythical British Fifth Column, 1939-46." Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1999, pp. 477–498.
• "Charm Offensive: The Coming out of MI5." Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2000, pp. 183–190.

Books

• British Fascism: Essays on the Radical Right in Inter-War Britain. Croom Helm, 1980. (Editor with Kenneth Lunn)
• Fascism in Britain: A History, 1918-85. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987.^[2] ISBN 0631136185
• The Secret State: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994.^[3][4]
• Fascism. Cambridge Perspectives in History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
• Fascism in Modern Britain. Sutton, Stroud, 2000

Chapters

• "Blaming the Blackshirts: The Authorities and the Anti-Jewish Disturbances in the 1930s." In: P. Panayi (ed.) Racial Violence in Britain. Leicester University Press, 1993, pp. 112–129.

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