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The Archive Hour: Potteries Fascists

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Seventy years ago the Public Order Act of 1936 marked the beginning of the end of the British Union of Fascists, banning the wearing of the Blackshirt uniform and giving police the power to ban fascist marches. Within a year, the movement was also barred from most big halls, leaving its leader Oswald Mosley without his two main weapons - processions and mass meetings. Gerry Northam marks the anniversary of the Act with a unique set of recordings, chronicling the rise and fall of the fascist movement in one of its strongest provincial bases, Stoke-on-Trent. Producer John Byrne

Contributors

Leader:
Oswald Mosley
Unknown:
Gerry Northam
Producer:
John Byrne

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