Traditions of Intolerance

Traditions of intolerance: Historical Perspectives on Fascism and Race Discourse in Britain is a book edited by Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn. It presented the newest research into antisemitism, racism, and fascism in British society.

It is a selection of papers from an academic conference organised jointly by the University of Southampton and Portsmouth Polytechnic in Southampton, England, in September 1987. A conference organised to address the new research opportunities opened up by the release of government records referred to as the 'Mosley Papers'.

It was published in 1989 by Manchester University Press as 245-page hardcover (ISBN 0-7190-2898-1). It was distributed in the United States and Canada by St. Martin's Press.

Contents

Part	Chapter	Author	Subjects
	Acknowledgements
	List of contributors
	Introduction	Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn
Part 1: Fascism, racism and culture	1: Jewish stereotyping and English literature, 1875–1920 : Towards a political analysis	Bryan Cheyette
	2: Imperial decline and the resurgence of English national identity, 1918–1979	Paul Rich
	3: Jewish responses to political antisemitism and fascism in the East End of London, 1920–1939	Elaine R. Smith
	4: The paradox of prejudice : the impact of organised antisemitism in Britain during an anti-Nazi war	Tony Kushner
	5: Racial attacks : the persistence of racial vigilantism in British cities	Christopher T. Husbands
Part 2: Fascism in action, fascism and the State	6: Joynson-Hicks and the radical right in England after the First World War	David Cesarani
	7: The ideology and impact of the British fascists in the 1920s	Kenneth Lunn
	8: Intolerance and discretion : Conservatives and British fascism, 1918–1926	G.C. Webber
	9: The "Mosley Papers" and the secret history of British fascism, 1939–1940	Richard Thurlow
	10: Alexander Ratcliffe : militant Protestant and antisemite	Colin Holmes
	11: Fascism and political racism in post-war Britain	Roger Eatwell
	Index