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Fascism

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Fascism in Britain 

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20th Century

Your guide to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists (BUF)

Richard Bosworth answers listener questions on the authoritarian ideology that emerged in Italy a century ago. (Image by Getty Images)
20th Century

Fascism: everything you wanted to know

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The classics and racial hatred: how the far right hijacked the ancient world

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The International Brigades: fighting fascism in Spain

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20th Century

How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism

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Francisco Franco: is it accurate to call the Spanish dictator a fascist?

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The red dawn: the October Revolution

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Michael X and the British war on black power

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The thorns in Mussolini’s side: the anti-Fascists who opposed the Italian regime

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Who were the young people drawn to Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists?

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Spying on the king: when MI5 targeted Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

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Persuading the people: British propaganda in the Second World War

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