| Level | Sub-series |
| Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure) | OMD/10/1 |
| Title | Albums of press cuttings relating principally to Oswald Mosley's political and public life |
| Extent | 12 volumes |
| Date | 1926-1939 |
| Description | An incomplete chronological sequence of albums of cuttings relating to the political and, to a lesser extent, the personal life of Oswald Mosley. According to Robert Skidelsky, Mosley's office allowed him access for his biography to volumes of press cuttings for the inter-war period, covering the years 1919-40 and it would appear that these albums are what has survived of this sequence. These albums are all of the same format. Some albums are numbered indicating that this was once a much bigger sequence of albums covering a greater chronological date range.
The cuttings include published reports, articles, letters, photographs, book reviews and cartoons. The cuttings are taken from a wide range of publications, principally local and national newspapers, a small number of foreign newspapers and a range of other titles, including journals and magazines. These include:
'Labour Monthly';
'The Star';
'The Economist';
'The Spectator';
'Daily Herald';
'Daily Worker';
'Punch';
'Forward';
'Evening Standard';
'Birmingham Post';
'Yorkshire Post';
'The Scotsman';
'Daily Express';
'Daily Mail';
'Daily Express';
'The Times';
'Daily Telegraph';
'Manchester Guardian';
'Daily Sketch';
'The Saturday Review';
'Workers Weekly';
'The Nation & the Athenaeum';
'New Statesman';
'Clarion';
'Christian World'
'The Graphic';
'Jewish Chronicle';
'Jewish World';
'The Patriot';
'Church Times';
'Christian Science Monitor';
'New Clarion';
'New Leader';
'Week-end Review';
'Labour Magazine';
'The Plebs';
'New Britain';
'The People' |
| Arrangement | The cuttings are largely arranged in the volumes in chronological order. The source and date of the cuttings have been recorded in what appears to be largely the same hand throughout the period. The albums include a sequence of index pages at the beginning of each volume which have usually been used for cuttings, sometimes as part of the chronological sequence and sometimes for additional cuttings. In a few volumes, additional pages have been inserted to allow extra cuttings to be included at the appropriate date. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Physical Description | The cuttings were originally pasted in to the volumes, but over the years the paste has dried and some cuttings have become loose. Wherever possible, these cuttings have been reattached. In some cases this has not been possible and the unidentified loose cuttings have been placed in an acid free folder inside the front of each volume. |