Richard Thurlow

Richard C. Thurlow is an 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.

Selected publications

Articles

• "Powers of darkness: Conspiracy, Belief and Political Strategy", Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 12, No. 6 (1978), pp. 1-12./23.
• "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, (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.
• "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. ISBN 0631136185
• The Secret State: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994.
• 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 1930's", in P. Panayi (ed.) (1993) Racial violence in Britain. Leicester: Leicester University Press. pp. 112–129.