Richard Thurlow

Richard C. Thurlow is a historian of fascism in Britain. He is a graduate of the University of York and the University of Sussex and now an honorary lecturer at the University of Sheffield where he formerly taught. ^[1]

Selected publications

Articles

• "Powers of Darkness: Conspiracy, Belief and Political Strategy." Patterns of Prejudice , Vol. 12, No. 6, 1978, pp. 1–12, 23. doi : 10.1080/0031322X.1978.9969469.
• "Jew Wise: Dimensions of British Political Anti-semitism, 1918-1939." Immigrants and Minorities, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1987, pp. 44–65.
• "British Fascism and State Surveillance, 1934-45." Intelligence and National Security , Vol. 1, 1988, pp. 77–99.
• "'A Very Clever Capitalist Class': British Communism and State Surveillance, 1939-1945." Intelligence and National Security , Vol. 12, No. 2, April 1997.
• "The Guardian of the 'Sacred Flame': The Failed Political Resurrection of Sir Oswald Mosley after 1945." Journal of Contemporary History , Vol. 33, No. 2, April 1998, pp. 241–254. JSTOR   260975.
• "The Evolution of the Mythical British Fifth Column, 1939-46." Twentieth Century British History , Vol. 10, No. 4, 1999, pp. 477–498.
• "Charm Offensive: The Coming out of MI5." Intelligence and National Security , Vol. 15, No. 1, 2000, pp. 183–190.

Books

• British Fascism: Essays on the Radical Right in Inter-War Britain. Croom Helm, 1980. (Editor with Kenneth Lunn)
• Fascism in Britain: A History, 1918-85. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987. ^[2] ISBN   0631136185
• The Secret State: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994. ^{[3] [4]}
• Fascism. Cambridge Perspectives in History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
• Fascism in Modern Britain. Sutton, Stroud, 2000

Chapters

• "Blaming the Blackshirts: The Authorities and the Anti-Jewish Disturbances in the 1930s." In: P. Panayi (ed.) Racial Violence in Britain. Leicester University Press, 1993, pp. 112–129.

References

1. "Thurlow, Richard, Mr". 27 August 2020.
2. Reilly, Danny (1989). "Book reviews : Fascism in Britain: A history, 1918-1985 by RICHARD THURLOW (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987). 317 pp. £17.50". Race & Class. 30 (3): 103–105. doi:10.1177/030639688903000314. S2CID   143155212.
3. Sternmay/June 1995, Fritz (28 January 2009). "The Secret State: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century".{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
4. "Richard Thurlow. <italic>The Secret State: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century</italic>. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. 1995. Pp. Xiii, 458". The American Historical Review. 1997. doi:10.1086/ahr/102.1.116.