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No region of Great Britain suffered more in the 'Hungry Thirties' than Tyneside and the North-East. When the Labour and Coalition Governments failed to stem the tide of unemployment, Geordies began to look elsewhere - to the Communist Party, Independent Labour Party and not least the British Union of Fascists led by Sir Oswald Mosley. For the next eight years, these contenders for political power fought a bitter ideological battle on the streets of Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead, Durham, Stockton and elsewhere. The full story of this period of the North-East's past has remained untold - something that local historian Gordon Stridiron has now remedied following a study of primary sources never before undertaken on the same scale. Mosley's 'Blackshirts in Geordieland' emerge not as the political thugs and would-be Quislings of stereotypical image. Instead, the reader discovers a group of patriotic idealists - against communism, against capitalism and against war - who whether right or wrong had the courage to face hostility and physical attack to make their message heard: 'The War on Want is the War we Want!"

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Blackshirts in Geordieland
• Author: Gordon Stridiron
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• EAN: 9781910881521
• ISBN: 191088152X
• ID: 15772552
• Publisher: Black House Publishing
• Weight: 304 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. January 2017

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