The Britons
English anti-Semitic and anti-immigration organisation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Britons was an English anti-Semitic and anti-immigration organisation founded in July 1919 by Henry Hamilton Beamish. The organisation published pamphlets and propaganda under imprint names: Judaic Publishing Co. and later The Britons, and (The) Britons Publishing Society. These entities mainly engaged in disseminating anti-Semitic literature and rhetoric in the United Kingdom and called for greater nationalism, being considered academically among the forefront of British Fascists. Imprints under the first label exist for 1920, 1921, and 1922.
Successor | Britons Publishing Society (incorporated 1922) (dissolved and defunct, 1975) |
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Formation | 1919 |
Founder | Henry Hamilton Beamish |
Dissolved | 1931 (chiefly limited to publishing house and its sponsorship) |
Type | Nationalism Antisemitism Racial discrimination Cultural conservatism |
Purpose | Political organisation and publisher |
Location | |
Key people | John Henry Clarke |
According to historian Sharman Kadish, The Britons was "the most extreme group disseminating anti-Semitic propaganda in the early 1920s - indeed the first organisation set up in Britain for this express purpose."[1]