Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Nancy Mitford | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Mitford | Three of NM
's sisters took up extreme political positions in the 1930s. Diana
, the third in age, left her first marriage to be with Sir Oswald Mosley
, leader of the British Union of Fascists |
| Family and Intimate relationships | T. S. Eliot | TSE
left England fully determined that this would be the end of his marriage in fact, although his religious beliefs did not permit a divorce. From the USA in February 1933 he instructed his solicitor... |
| Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | The following year Lowndes
stayed with Trefusis at West Coker Manor. |
| politics | Nancy Mitford | After her experience with Spanish refugees, NM
(who had once flirted with the British Union of Fascists
) became a socialist. She put her sister Diana in prison by informing on her: an action which... |
| politics | Doreen Wallace | Twenty or more Blackshirts from the British Union of Fascists
set up camp at the Wortham farm of DW
and her husband
(who were not Fascist sympathisers), claiming to protect the interests of the farmer... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Aldous Huxley | Some critics consider this AH
's finest work, a point of intersection between his social satires and his portraits of cynical characters who eventually journey to mysticism. It has an epigraph from Fulke Greville
about... |
Timeline
10 March 1914: A suffragist, Mary Richardson, slashed the...
Building item
10 March 1914
A suffragist, Mary Richardson
, slashed the Rokeby Venus (the only known female nude by Velasquez
, which shows Venus admiring herself in a mirror) in the National Gallery, London.
Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
xii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
27 October 1931: In the general election, the National Coalition...
National or international item
27 October 1931
In the general election, the National Coalition Government won a landslide victory (a majority of nearly five hundred seats over the combined opposition) but became much more Conservative
in tone than it had been. Most...
1 October 1932: The British Union of Fascists was founded...
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1 October 1932
The British Union of Fascists
was founded by Sir Oswald Mosley
.
Sir Oswald Mosley. http://www.oswaldmosley.com/.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
7 June 1934: Sir Oswald Mosley, former Member of Parliament...
National or international item
7 June 1934
Sir Oswald Mosley
, former Member of Parliament and founder of the British Union of Fascists
(1932), spoke at a demonstration at Olympia Hall, London, attended by 15,000 people.
Bishop, James. Marching to War, 1933-1935. Editor Gilbert, Martin, Bracken Books, 1989.
55
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
146
5 October 1936: A Sunday march of Oswald Mosley's British...
National or international item
5 October 1936
A Sunday march of Oswald Mosley
's British Union of Fascists
clashed with anti-fascist demonstrators at Cable Street in the East End of London.
Cross, Colin. The Fascists in Britain. Barrie and Rockliff, 1961.
159
Late 1936: The Public Order Act passed through parliament,...
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Late 1936
The Public Order Act passed through parliament, aimed at outbreaks of violence following demonstrations and counter-demonstrations connected with Oswald Mosley
's British Union of Fascists
.
Liberty: A Brief History. http://web.archive.org/web/20080807173131/http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/about/1-history/index.shtml.
Porter, Bernard. “How the Judges Stood in the Way of Socialism”. London Review of Books, 1 June 2000, pp. 27-8.
28
17 September 1945: The trial began at the Old Bailey in London...
National or international item
17 September 1945
The trial began at the Old Bailey in London of Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce), famous as a wartime anti-British, pro-Hitler broadcaster, who before the war had regularly posed as of British nationality.
Laity, Paul. “Uneasy Listening”. London Review of Books, 8 July 2004, pp. 22-4.
22-4
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