| Description | Correspondence and associated papers including press cuttings relating to Nicholas Mosley's research on the detention of his father during the Second World War under 18B Regulations, and attempts by him and other members of the Mosley family to overturn the 100 year closure period on the Home Office material relating to his imprisonment. This material comprises:
/1: two copies of a newspaper article published in 'The Times' Diary 22 Oct about the continued closure of the transcript of the judicial hearing into Oswald Mosley's case, despite Nicholas Mosley's attempts to gain access to it
/2: letter to Nicholas Mosley from Robert Row, Sanctuary Press Ltd, 23 Oct, referring to the 'Times' article and discussing the possible influence of the Defence Security Executive on Mosley's detention
/3: letter to Nicholas Mosley from Margaret J. Ross Williamson, widow of Hugh Ross Williamson, 34 Bradbourne St, Parson's Green, London, 27 Oct, enclosing photocopies of letters that Hugh Ross Williamson wrote to 'The Catholic Herald' in 1942 on the subject of Mosley's imprisonment, a typed letter with handwritten additions written by Oswald Mosley to Hugh Ross Williamson from Holloway gaol in Jul 1942 discussing the legal reasons given for his imprisonment and a photocopy of part of a letter written by Hugh Ross Williamson, probably to 'The Times', probably in 1942, about Herbert Morrison, the Home Secretary at the time of Mosley's arrest.
/4: newspaper article published in 'The Times' 27 Oct about the possible reasons for the continued closure of the Home Office file on Oswald Mosley's examination by Norman Birkett and press cutting of a letter from Ian Curteis published in 'The Times' commenting on this article
/5: photocopy of a letter to the editor of 'The Times' from Diana Mosley, 4 Nov which sets out her reasons for wanting the release of the Home Office transcript of her husband's hearing before the 18B Advisory Committee in 1940
/6: press cutting of a letter from Alan D. Hadfield written 8 Nov and published in 'The Times' which discusses the reasons given for Mosley's arrest under 18B Regulations
/7: letter to Nicholas Mosley from Brocard Sewell, Whitefriars School, Carlton Kings, Cheltenham, 20 Nov expressing his support for Nicholas Mosley's attempts to gain access to his father's 18B files, and informing him of two articles about Oswald Mosley published in the Aylesford Review in 1962
/8: letter to Nicholas Mosley from Alexander Mosley, 31 Rue De L'Universite, Paris, 2 Dec, about his attempts to gain access to his father's 18B file. He also refers to the possibility that Mussolini's government gave financial support to the B.U.F during the 1930s
/9: letter to Nicholas Mosley from Jonathan Guinness, 31-45 Gresham Street, London, 7 Dec, enclosing copies of his correspondence with Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, in Nov 1981, and copies of replies received from the Home Office on the disclosure of material from Oswald Mosley's 18B file. The enclosures also include a photocopy of a page from Hansard, containing a transcript of the debate in the House of Lords 11 Nov 1981 during which Lord Boothby asked a question about the release of the papers relating to Oswald Mosley's detention under 18B Regulations
/10: letter to Nicholas Mosley from J. Wake, Departmental Record Officer at the Home Office, 7 Dec, confirming that the papers relating to Oswald Mosley's detention under 18B Regulations are closed on security grounds, and enclosing a copy of the transcript of Lord Boothby's question in the House of Lords 11 Nov 1981 and the reply of Lord Belstead of the Home Office. Also filed with this letter is a copy of Nicholas Mosley's letter to J. Wake 27 Nov, asking for further information about the reasons for the continued closure of Oswald Mosley's 18B file.
/11: copy of a letter from Nicholas Mosley to Robert Row, 11 Dec, asking for further information about the Defence Security Executive and informing him of his intention to begin research on the B.U.F in the 1930s. He also mentions that he will return Row's copies of 'Action' and will require the use of his copies of 'Blackshirt' for his research
/12: letter to Nicholas Mosley from Jonathan Guinness, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, 17 Dec, making arrangements for Nicholas to meet Sir John Briggs-Davison at the House of Commons, in order to him to raise in the House of Commons the issue of Home Office's continued closure of Oswald Mosley's 18B files
This file includes a set of photocopies of Nicholas Mosley's correspondence with J. Wake of the Home Office, and of the newspaper articles and other cuttings described above. It also contains a photocopy of Oswald Mosley's typescript Statement with his manuscript annotations in reply to the reasons given for his detention, probably dated 1940. |