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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Neo-Nazis
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Like other European countries, Britain still has groups peddling the hate-filled certainties of Fascism; but they have only a small (if sometimes noisy) following. Among their predecessors in the 1930s the most active was Oswald *Mosley's British Union of Fascists, which provoked considerable violence by staging marches in Jewish areas of east London; there were also the National Socialist League, founded by William Joyce (see *Lord Haw-Haw) and Arnold Leese's Imperial Fascist League.
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In the postwar decades the most prominent group has been the National Front. Formed in the 1960s, and later much associated with *skinheads, it achieved a high profile in the 1970s through the violence resulting from its demonstrations in areas with large black and Asian populations.
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