Heard of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, or the Battle of Cable Street? A new TV drama sheds light on the less well-known rise of a postwar, violently antisemitic far right, the authorities' failure to confront it, and how Jews fought back
You might have heard of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, or the Battle of Cable Street. But there's an even less well-remembered part of Britain's fascist history: The rise of a violently antisemitic postwar far right, the authorities' failure to confront it, and how Jews fought back