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The Blackshirt Collection Scope University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives Ref: MS 366 Title: The Blackshirt Collection Scope: A collection of documents relating to Stephen Dorril’s research for his book “Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British fascism” published in 2006 Dates: 1930-2002 Level: Fonds Extent: 26 boxes; 33 volumes Name of creator: Stephen Dorril Administrative / biographical history: The collection consists of documents, correspondence, articles and research notes collected and created by Dr Stephen Dorril, of the University of Huddersfield, when researching his book “Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism”, published in 2006. Stephen Dorril has been an author, researcher and investigative journalist since 1986, and has written articles for major newspapers and appeared on radio and television programmes as a consultant and specialist on the security and intelligence services. His central interest is in the relationship between states/governments and the security and intelligence services, principally in the British context. He is a member of research staff at the University of Huddersfield, where he supervises research students in aspects of post-war activities of the British intelligence and security services, the history of journalism and cultural studies. He is a member of the Study Group on Intelligence and is director of the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Oral History (COHR). Related collections: British Union Collection; Cooper Collection; Fascism in Great Britain Collection; Saunders Papers; Defence Regulation 18B Research Papers; Pugh Papers Source: By donation System of arrangement: By category 1 Subjects: Fascism - Great Britain Names: Dorril, Stephen; Mosley, Oswald, 1896-1980 Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment Restrictions: Some documents are restricted Copyright: According to document Finding aids: Listed 2 MS 366 The Blackshirt Collection Box 1 366/1/1 Letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Stephen Dorril – 2 pages, Ts 366/1/2 Federal Bureau of Investigation Records of Francis Parker Yockey - (Part 1 of 5) – 300 pages +, Ts/Ms 366/1/3 Federal Bureau of Investigation Records of Francis Parker Yockey - (Part 2 of 5) – 300 pages +, Ts/Ms Box 2 366/2/1 Federal Bureau of Investigation Records of Francis Parker Yockey - (Part 3 of 5) – 300 pages +, Ts/Ms 366/2/2 Federal Bureau of Investigation Records of Francis Parker Yockey - (Part 4 of 5) – 300 pages +, Ts /Ms 366/2/3 Federal Bureau of Investigation Records of Francis Parker Yockey - (Part 5 of 5) – 300 pages +, Ts/Ms Box 3 366/3/1 Letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Stephen Dorril – 2 pages, Ts 366/3/2 Federal Bureau of Investigation Records of Albert Frederic Armand Gregoire – 211 pages, Ts/Ms 366/3/3 Federal Bureau of Investigation Records of Albert Frederic Armand Gregoire – 189 pages, Ts/Ms Box 4 366/4/1 Secondary texts on Tyler Kent and Oswald Mosley (4 items) 366/4/1/1 Photocopy excerpt from Peter Gillman & Leni Gillman, Collar the Lot! (London, 1980) – 7 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/1/2 Photocopy excerpt from Michael Holroyd, Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy Volume III (London, 1991) – 14 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/1/3 Photocopy excerpt from Jack Jones, Unfinished Journey (Oxford University Press, 1937) – 16 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/1/4 Photocopy excerpt from Lord Elwyn-Jones, In My Time: An Autobiography (London, 1985) – 3 pages, Ts 3 366/4/2 Secondary texts on John Maynard Keynes (5 items) 366/4/2/1 Photocopy excerpt from Peter Clarke, The Keynesian Revolution in the Making 1924 – 1936 (Oxford, 1990) – 13 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/2/2 Photocopy excerpt from Derek Crabtree & A.P. Thirlwall (eds), Keynes and the Role of the State (Palgrave, 1993) – 7 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/2/3 Photocopy excerpt from Donald Moggridge (ed.), The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes Volume XX (Macmillan, 1981) – 11 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/2/4 John M. Keynes article, ‘Sir Oswald Mosley’s Manifesto’ in The Nation & Athenæum (13th December, 1930) – 1 page, Ts 366/4/2/5 Photocopy excerpt from Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes Volume II (London, 1995) – 23 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/3 Photocopy excerpt from Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy: An Exposé of the Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949 (London, 1983) – 4 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/4 Photocopy excerpt from Z.A.B Zeman, Nazi Propaganda (London, 1964) – 20 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/5 Oswald Mosley, ‘The World Alternative: European Synthesis within the Universalism of Fascism and National Socialism’, The Fascist Quarterly Volume II (July, 1936) – 10 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/6 A set of documents related to Wagner and links with Nazism (6 items) 366/4/6/1 Photocopy excerpt from Jeremy Tambling, Opera and the Culture of Fascism (Oxford, 1996) – 7 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/6/2 Photocopy excerpt from Gottfried Wagner, He Who Does Not Howl with the Wolf: The Wagner Legacy (London, 1997) – 10 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/6/3 Christine Toomey, ‘Kissing Hitler’, The Sunday Times Magazine (date unknown) – 5 pages, Ts 366/4/6/4 Peter Conradi, ‘Nazi feud splits Wagner’s family’, The Sunday Times (13/7/1997) – 1 page, Ts/Ms 366/4/6/5 Stuart Wavell, Review of He Who Does Not Howl with the Wolf: The Wagner Legacy (London, 1997), The Guardian (date unknown) – 1 page, Ts 366/4/6/6 Ian Traynor, ‘Wagner clan’s cycle of emnity’, The Guardian (23/07/1997) – 1 page, Ts/Ms 366/4/7 Correspondence with German nationals (4 items) 366/4/7/1 Letter from Herbert Döhring to Stephen Dorril (in German) - 09/04/1998, plus letter from Stephen Dorril to Herbert Döhring (in English, with a German translation) – 3 pages, Ms/Ts 4 366/4/7/2 Tilman Remme, ‘Life with Hitler and his mistress’ (Herbert Döhring testimony), The Daily Telegraph (23/09/1997) – 1 page, Ts 366/4/7/3 Letter from Laurence Rees and the B.B.C to Stephen Dorril – 29/01/1998 – 1 page, Ts 366/4/7/4 Letter from Stephen Dorril to Reinhard Spitzy (English with a German translation) – 06/02/1998 – 2 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/8 Documents relating to G.T. Waddington (3 items) 366/4/8/1 Letter from G.T. Waddington to Stephen Dorril with ideas for sources – 08/07/1998 – 2 pages, Ts 366/4/8/2 G.T. Waddington, ‘Hassgegner: German Views of Great Britain in the Later 1930s’, History Volume 81 No. 261 (1996) – 9 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/8/3 G.T. Waddington, “’An idyllic and unruffled atmosphere of complete Anglo-German misunderstanding’: Aspects of the Operations of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop in Great Britain, 1934-1938”, History Volume 82 No. 265 (1997) – 15 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/9 Set of documents detailing British interactions with senior Nazi figures (7 items) 366/4/9/1 Photocopy excerpt of Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (translated by Richard Winston, 1970) – 2 pages, Ts 366/4/9/2 Photocopy excerpt of Michael Bloch, Ribbentrop (London, 1992) – 24 pages, Ts 366/4/9/3 Photocopy excerpt of John Toland, Adolf Hitler (Wordsworth, 1997) – 18 pages, Ts 366/4/9/4 Photocopy excerpt of Fritz Hesse, Hitler and the English (ed. & trans. By F.A. Voight, London, 1954) – 3 pages, Ts 366/4/9/5 Photocopy excerpt of Anthony Eden, The Eden Memoirs (London, 1962) – 2 pages, Ts 366/4/9/6 Angela Schwarz, ‘British Visitors to National Socialist Germany: in a Familiar or in a Foreign Country?’, Journal of Contemporary History , Vol. 28 No. 3 (1993) – 12 pages, Ts 366/4/9/7 Photocopy excerpt of David Irving, Churchill’s War (1987) – 37 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/10 Set of German language secondary texts (with select English translation - Ms) on Adolf Hitler and Karl Haushofer (4 items), Ts NB. Items 366/4/10/2 and 366/4/10/4 appear to be duplicates but they are copies of the same text with different sections translated 366/4/11 Set of German language primary and secondary sources (with Ts English translation) on British Union of Fascists visits to Nazi Germany (6 items), Ts 366/4/12 Photocopy extracts of sources from Nazi Germany – from 1938 to 1943 (German language, with select Ts English translation) - 5 themed around Judaism in Britain (3 items) 366/4/13 Set of documents relating to Lord Brabazon of Tara and 5th Earl Amherst of Montreal (5 items) 366/4/13/1 Letter from P. Elliot of the Royal Air Force Museum to Stephen Dorril – 15/06/1999 – 1 page, Ts 366/4/13/2 Two Obituaries of Lord Brabazon of Tara (one from The Times, 18/5/1964 – other source unknown) – 3 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/13/3 Photocopy excerpt from David Edgerton, England and the Aeroplane (Macmillan, 1991) – 22 pages, Ts/Ms 366/4/13/4 Letter from Lord Amherst to Stephen Dorril about possible links between Mosley and 5th Earl Amherst of Montreal – 1 page, Ts 366/4/13/5 Photocopy excerpt from Jeffery Amherst (5th Earl Amherst), Wandering Abroad (London, 1976) - 366/4/14 Set of two secondary texts on Franco and the Spanish Civil War 366/4/14/1 Photocopy excerpt from Gerald Howson, Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War (London, 1998) – 9 pages, Ts 366/4/14/2 Photocopy excerpt from Paul Preston, Franco: A Biography (HarperCollins, 1993) – 5 pages, Ts 366/4/15 Set of Italian language documents relating to Dino Grandi from the ‘Captured Italian Documents Collection’ of the U.K. National Archives (with some select English translation) – Ts/Ms – (5 items) NB. English translation for items 366/4/15/1, 366/4/15/2, 366/4/15/3 can be found at 366/4/15/4 366/4/16 Set of German language correspondence between Diana Guinness (Lady Diana Mosley) and Nazi officials inc.
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