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Fascism

The election of Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s first female prime minister
21st Century

The rise of Giorgia Meloni “It makes plain the strange way a dictator has retained a positive image in many sectors of Italian society”

Benito Mussolini
Second World War

Mussolini’s willing followers? The Italians devoted to Fascism and the duce

Mussolini salutes in front of the statue of the Roman emperor Nerva, in the 1930s
20th Century

How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism

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20th Century

Fascism in Britain 

Sir Oswald Mosley taking the salute from female members of the BUF
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

Adolf Hitler stands with his back to a statue of Discobolos, the Discus Thrower
General Modern

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

Giles Tremlett discusses how more than 35,000 volunteers from across the globe fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. (Image by Getty Images)
20th Century

The International Brigades: fighting fascism in Spain

Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain as dictator from 1939 to 1975, raises his arm in salute
20th Century

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

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
20th Century

The red dawn: the October Revolution

The Prince of Wales loading a rifle in the Grenadiers, First World War, 1914. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
First World War

Edward VIII: How war scarred the playboy prince

Michael X, (right, foreground) black power advocate, in Hyde Park. (Photo by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
General Modern

Michael X and the British war on black power

Benito Mussolini with members of the Black shirt Legion
20th Century

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

Oswald Mosley receives a fascist salute from his followers in October 1936
Second World War

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

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20th Century

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

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