Stephen Dorril. Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism. London: Viking, 2006. I’m always up for books on British fascism. This one is perhaps aiming to do a Kershaw — a sort of history of the BUF through a biography of its leader. ‘[I]mportant and controversial’, according to the blurb. Medical Manual of Chemical Warfare. […]
This is my reading list for the next month or so, all from the period 1932-1941. After that, I’ll be back at the State Library to read some more. There’s about twice as many books as there were for the preceding period (1917-1931), though not all of these will turn out to be of great
New blog alert! Great War Fiction is the blog of George Simmers, a PhD student at Oxford Brookes. He’s working on fiction written during and after the First World War, particularly the representations of soldiers and ex-soldiers therein. He has only been blogging a couple of days, but already has four posts up, including the
An interesting quote from Robert Graves’ autobiography, Goodbye to All That (London: Penguin, 1960 [1929]), 120. He was in London on leave; the date is not specified but it was before Loos, so I’d guess it was late summer, 1915. The Zeppelin scare had just begun. Some friends of the family came in one night,
Well, since everyone else seems to be revamping their blogs (and also because I’m expecting visitors soon), I thought I’d try to keep up with the Joneses or at least not fall too far behind. At first I was just going to put in a header graphic (as seen above), but I found it wasn’t
