| Description | Album numbered '34' containing cuttings covering the period 2 December 1933-27 January 1934.
This album contains cuttings which highlight the growth of the Blackshirt movement, efforts to recruit new members, its aims, policies and activities. There is coverage of numerous meetings around the country which, during this period, included the major rally at Bingley Hall, Birmingham. There are a number of articles in the 'Daily Mail' and elsewhere by Viscount Rothermere written in support of the movement and there is also an article in the 'Sunday Dispatch', 21 January, by Oswald Mosley on 'why we wear the black shirt'. Other cuttings report the ordering of armoured vans by BUF for carrying men; Oswald Mosley's libel action against the Daily News Ltd; and Oswald Mosley acting as best man at wedding of Chief of Staff of the BUF, Ian Dundas.
The cuttings also include coverage of domestic politics and speeches made by Sir Stafford Cripps. |