Blackshirts in Geordieland Contributor(s): Stridiron, Gordon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1913176010 ISBN-13: 9781913176013 Publisher: Sanctuary Press Ltd OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism - History | Revolutionary - History | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 320.533 |
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.67 lbs) 260 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: No region of Great Britain suffered more in the 'Hungry Thirties' than Tyneside and the North-East. When the Labour and Coalition Governments failed to stem the tide of unemployment, Geordies began to look elsewhere - to the Communist Party, Independent Labour Party and not least the British Union of Fascists led by Sir Oswald Mosley. For the next eight years, these contenders for political power fought a bitter ideological battle on the streets of Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead, Durham, Stockton and elsewhere. The full story of this period of the North-East's past has remained untold - something that local historian Gordon Stridiron has now remedied following a study of primary sources never before undertaken on the same scale. Mosley's 'Blackshirts in Geordieland' emerge not as the political thugs and would-be Quislings of stereotypical image. Instead, the reader discovers a group of patriotic idealists - against communism, against capitalism and against war - who whether right or wrong had the courage to face hostility and physical attack to make their message heard: 'The War on Want is the War we Want " |