| Description | This album contains press cuttings and photographs relating to Oswald Mosley's by-election campaign in Smethwick in Dec 1926. The majority of the cuttings consist of cartoons and printed photographs of Mosley, and of his wife, Cynthia Mosley, who assisted him in his campaigning and made several speeches in the constituency, and several of the photographs printed in the newspaper articles show them speaking to local audiences. There are also photographs of the crowds present at the election count. Many of the cartoons focus on the apparent conflict between the wealth and social background of the Mosleys and their membership of the Labour Party. There is one article, published in an unidentified American newspaper, dated 1927, which focuses on Oswald Mosley's election success despite his social status and the opposition of his father. The album also contains some loose black and white photographs taken during the campaign, consisting of a photograph of Oswald Mosley campaigning from his car, and two photographs of Cynthia Mosley. One of these shows her making a speech; the other shows her with an unidentified man, possibly a local Labour Party activist. |