Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives
Websites with information:
http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives/acquisitions/90296
Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2b69r8hx/entire_text/
[0285a] Bern Trial on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion Collection, Undated, 1921-1936, bulk 1934-1935, AR 34 [digital collection]
Location: Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011
Description: This collection contains materials from and about the famous Bern trial on "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" of 1933-1935, when Swiss Jewish groups sued the Swiss Nazi party and successfully had the anti-Semitic Protocols declared a forgery. Trial materials in this collection include the report of the court-appointed expert, Swiss writer Carl Albert Loosli; Silvio Schnell's 76-page complaint for false testimony against the plaintiff's October 1934 witnesses; brief summaries of the expert reports of Michael Guttmann, Loosli, and Arthur Baumgardt; and a transcript of the main 1934 court session, which consisted of three days of testimony (October 29-31, 1934) by witnesses Chaim Weizmann, Count A. M. du Chayla, Sergius Swatikoff, Wladimir Burtzeff, Boris Nikolajewsky, Henri Sliosberg, Mayer Ebner, Paul Miljukoff, Marcus Ehrenpreis, David Farbstein, Theodor Tobler, Max Bodenheimer, Eduard Welti, Franz Sieber, Hermann Dietrich, Otto Zoller, and Alfred Zander. Also found in this collection are some related publications and clippings, including a copy of the "Berner Bilderbuch," an illustrated summary of the trial written from an anti-Semitic point of view.
Finding aids:
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=477923
http://www.lbi.org/digibaeck/
[0286] Viola Wertheim Bernard Papers, 1918-2000
Location: Archives and Special Collections, Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Lower Level 1, Room 111, Columbia University, 701 W 168th St., New York, NY 10032
Description: Viola Wertheim Bernard (1907-1998) was a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, child welfare advocate, and pioneer in the field of community psychiatry. Bernard was also responsible for organizing in 1958 an exhibit on right-wing health extremists and anti-psychiatry forces in general. She acquired a great deal of ephemeral material documenting opposition to fluoridation and the new polio vaccine, as well as on right-wing efforts to link the "mental health movement" with Communism. Series 9: Professional Organizations. Sub-series 9.7: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), 1946-1998, contains files on the 1958 GAP Exhibit on Right-Wing Health Extremists, including Polio, Fluoridation, Anti-Mental Health, Anti-Communist Right Wing, Right Wing Extremists, and a copy of William Baum, "The Conspiracy Theory of Politics of the Radical Right in the United States" (Ph.D., State University of Iowa, 1960).
Websites with information:
http://library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu/finding-aid/viola-wertheim-bernard-papers-1918-2000
Finding aids:
http://library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/finding-aids/Bernard_Finding_Aid.pdf
http://www.ibrarian.net/navon/paper/Box_Folder_List__Links__Archives___Special_Collec.pdf?paperid=1912007
[0287] Ernest Bernbaum Papers, 1913-1915, MC 409
Location: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 3 James St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Description: Anti-suffrage writings, drafts of speeches and lectures, etc., of Ernest Bernbaum (1879-1958), instructor and anti-suffragist. He edited Anti-suffrage essays by Massachusetts women, with an introduction by Ernest Bernbaum ([Boston: J.A. Haien], 1916).
Websites with information:
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/allFindingAids?_collection=oasis
Finding aid:
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00449
[0288] Herbert and Nancy Bernhard Papers, 1872-1970 (bulk 1933-1945), RG-75/RG-75 [partly digital collection]
Location: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, 100 S The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Description: The collection originated from the family papers of Herbert and Nancy Bernhard. Sub-Collection 1: RG-75.01, German and American antisemitic materials, late 19th century—1970s, contains copies of The truth about My Alleged $50,000,000.00 Donation, by Geo. W. Armstrong (January 1950): Common Sense. America's Newspaper Against Communism, Issue No. 376, Jan 1, 1962, Issue No. 377, Jan 15, 1962, and Issue No. 379, Feb 15, 1962; Martin Luther, The Jews and Their Lies. Published by Christian Nationalist Crusade, Los Angeles 27, California. May, 1948; The Cross and The Flag. Founded by Gerald L.K. Smith. Vol. 15, No. 11, Feb. 1957; Vol 15, No. 12, March 1957; Vol. 16, No. 51, April 1957; and Vol. 32, No. 1, April 1973; Women's Voice. Lyrl Clark Van Hyning Editor, Chicago, Ill., Vol. 13, Nos. 2, September 1954; Vol. 14, Nos. 6 & 7, January & February 1956; Vol. 18, Nos. 1 & 2, August & September 1959; and Vol. 17, Nos. 9 & 10, April & May 1959; Know Your Enemy, by Robert H. Williams. Santa Ana, California. 1950; The Fifth Column in Washington, by Joseph P. Kamp. June, 1940 [online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=4853]; Cry Brotherhood, by Jack B. Tenney. Sacramento, California. 1965; Zion's Trojan Horse, by Senator Jack B. Tenney. Los Angeles, California. April, 1954; Am I an Anti-Semite. 9 Addresses on Various ISMS, by Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin. November 6, 1938; Lecture, by Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin. Lateral and frontal attack, October 22, 1933; Lecture, by Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin. The New Temple. October 29, 1933; Lecture, by Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin. The Restoration Of Silver. November 5, 1933; Pisen Stareho Ketasa (A Song of Old Ketas), in Czech, Prague, January 1918; The Colors Club Magazine, by Parke Longworth, LLB., MA, 1919, a conservative publication; The Weekly Unionette. March 19, 1965. Vol 1, No. 3; Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, a flyer, Long Beach, California, no date; Béla Imrédy, a Hungarian antisemitic publication, 1941; Examples of Notgeld (German "emergency money") issued by an institution not authorized for money emission, 1920-1922, including Emergency money, Hoffmanns Hotel. Antisemitic caricature, German, October 1, 1922; Hitler speech about the Jewish guilt, 1942, Das Lachen wird ihnen vergehen, 1942; Why Die For Stalin. Why Die For The Jews, appeal of John Amery, British fascist, no date; The Thunderbolt. The white man's viewpoint, antisemitic publication, American, 1962. No 43; Christian Nationalist Crusade, F.D.R. Secret Letters. Stalin and Roosevelt plotted with Jew Zionists to divide the World, antisemitic texts, 1943 (undated, ca. 1951), online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5464; Who are the war criminals, 1945; Benjamin Franklin and the Jews, a falsification, no date, online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5472; Russia and The Jews, no date; The 4 in One, by Henry H. Klein (Women's Voice, 1946) [four articles in one pamphlet: The Poison In the Jews' Cup; The Sanhedrin Produced World Destruction; The United States of the U.N.O.; and The Old Testament Versus the Talmud and the Protocols], online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5554; "Jewish Ritual Murders," Völkischer Beobachter, May 14, 1929; Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1922), online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5567; The Gospel of Jesus Christ Versus The Jews, by J.B. Stoner (1946), online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5574; "Now-Siberia, U.S.A." The Register, Santa Ana, CA, January 24, 1956, online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5583; "Civilized Liberty Eliminated," Richmond News Leader, Richmond, Virginia, July 12, 1966, online at http://lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5585; To the Patriots of Los Angeles. January 1954; Hate Art. January 21, 1955; Lexington-Concord. 1775. Clinton-Sturgis. 1956 (South Bend, Indiana, 1956), http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5591; "Rockefeller Over The World," by Henry H. Klein, Women's Voice, December 26, 1946, online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5592; "Anti-Gentilism," by Pefferkorn, Women's Voice, November 25, 1953, online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5593; "West Hooker Replies to a Critic," Women's Voice, March 26, 1955, online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5598; The Jews in the Netherlands, by Hans Graf von Monts, 1941; The Coming Red Dictatorship, no date; Reds Don't Elect Presidents, no date; The Jew Created Communism, ca. 1922; Ship of State. Leader against communism (Salem, Mass), July 1967; The Jewish Evidence of Jewish Financial Control, by Irvin L. Potter, May 29, 1933, excerpts online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5731; Parallelism. U.S.S.R. and U.S.A., no date; Matters of Life And Death. A handbook for Patriots, by Gerald L.K. Smith (1958), prefatory material online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5738; "The Condemned Generation," by Eustace Mullins, Women's Voice, June-July 1954, online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5757; Money no Mystery. Mastery By Monopoly [probably by Arnold Leese] (London, Imperial Fascist League, 1938), online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5758; open letter from the Keep America Committee (Los Angeles, Cal.), June 1956, online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5773; National Vanguard Books Catalog. No 15, 1993; The international Jew, By The Dearborn Publishing Co., 1920, preface online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5786; Two-Party Treason, by Don Lohbeck, 1950; Are Britons determined to be slaves, 1929; Minutemen of America membership card, no date; Our invisible government made visible, by Myron C. Fagan, February 1965; The Truth At Last. News suppressed by the daily press, by Dr. E.R. Fields, 1970s-1980s; Liberty Bell. September 1984; The Yellow Peril, by Revilo P. Oliver. Liberty Bell Publications, 1983 [anti-Japanese], online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5821; "Holocaust myths exploded," Spotlight, July 5, 1982; Judeo-Christianity, a letter, St. Mary's Academy & College. Dr. Revilo P. Oliver, June 11, 1986; Charles Lindbergh, American first last always. October 13, 1939; Christians awaken. Boake Carter's anti-Christ bible, by Elizabeth Dilling, no date; Ethnic types of the White Race in Europe, 1902; Gerald B. Winrod, Two messages from the President of the Defenders of The Christian Faith, 1956, online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5844; Historical Revisionism, a Catalog, Institute for Historical Review, 1992; and Rev. Gordon Winrod, Mysterious Jew Power (Gainesville, Missouri, 1963), online at http://www.lamoth.info/?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5849; and "Read and Pass On: The following two messages are from the President of the 'Defenders of The Christian Faith' in Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A.") [a letter from Gerald B. Winrod to Anthony Eden, Nov. 3, 1956; a telegram from Winrod to John Foster Dulles; also three telegrams from Antoine Francis Albina], online at http://www.lamoth.info/index.php?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=5844.
Websites with information:
http://www.lamoth.org/archives--library/archive-and-library/
Finding aids:
http://lamoth.info/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=79&rootcontentid=9509
http://www.lamoth.info/?p=collections/findingaid&id=79&q=
[0289] Herman Bernstein Papers, 1897-1935, RG 713
Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011-6301
Description: Bernstein (1876-1935) was an American journalist and diplomat. The papers consist of correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, notes, and reports relating to Bernstein's journalistic, literary and diplomatic careers. Correspondence with Henry Ford and Herbert Hoover. Instituted a libel suit in the 1920s against Henry Ford and the Dearborn Independent for publishing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; articles, clippings, correspondence and court materials relating to the Ford libel suit. Interviews with celebrities including Henry Ford, and Amin Al Husayni [Haj Amin el Husseini, former mufti of Jerusalem]. Manuscripts, notes, outlines of books relating to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
References:
Guide to the YIVO Archives, edited by Fruma Mohrer and Marek Web (Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe, 1998); Victoria Saker Woeste, "Insecure Equality: Louis Marshall, Henry Ford, and the Problem of Defamatory Antisemitism, 1920-1929," The Journal of American History, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Dec. 2004), pp. 877-905.
Websites with information:
http://yivoarchives.org/?p=collections/controlcard&id=33061
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33061
[0290] Julius Bernstein Papers, 1920-1984 (bulk 1950-1977), WAG 116
Location: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
Description: Julius Bernstein (1919-1977) served for more than twenty-five years as a field representative of the Jewish Labor Committee based in Boston. Correspondence, reports, publications, and clippings related to desegregating the Boston school system, right-wing extremism in the United States, the Jewish Labor Committee, Soviet Jewry, welfare reform, and unemployment. Series II: Unprocessed Materials, 1938-1977, 1938-1977, contains, in Box: 37, 1938-1977, correspondence, reports, publications, and clippings related to right-wing extremism in the United States. Subject Files, 1920-1984, contain files on America First; American Conservative Union; American Flag Committee; American Independent Party (George Wallace); American Mercury; American National Party; American Nazi Party; Americans for Constitutional Action; Anti-Semitism; Becker Amendment; Bombings (Against Southern Jewry); William F. Buckley; Louis Budenz; Circuit Riders; Citizens for McCarthy; Citizens Foreign Aid Committee; Citizens' Council (Boston); Committee of One Million; Confederate Flag; Congress of Freedom; Conservative Parties; Father Charles Coughlin; Counter Attack; Robert B. Dresser; Equal Rights Amendment; Facts Forum; Father Leonard Feeney; Fluoridation; For America; Foundations: Investigation of, Freedom Riders: Reverse (Cape Cod), Freedom School (Colorado Springs); Genocide Treaties; God & Country Rally; Barry Goldwater; Green Mountain Patriots; Green Mountain Rifleman; Gordon Hall; Herald of Freedom; House Un-American Activities Committee; Human Events; Indignation Convention; John Birch Society; Joseph P. Kamp; Hubert Kregeloh; Ku Klux Klan; Kuchel Case (1965); Lyndon LaRouche; Let Freedom Ring; Liberty Letter; Liberty Lobby; Liberty Amendment Committee; Life-Line Foundation (H.L. Hunt); Loyalty Oaths; Manion Forum; Mantle Club; McCarthy; McCarthyism; Mental Health; Military "Muzzling" Hearings; Minutemen; National Economic Council; National Education Program (Right Wing Films); National State's Rights Party; National Renaissance Party- James H. Madole; Nationalist Party; New England Rally for God, Family, and Country; None Dare Call It Treason; Prayer Amendment; Protestant War Veterans Legion; Right-to-Work Laws; Right Wing Groups: Group Research, Inc. reports; Right Wing Extremists; Right Wing Extremists: COPE (Committee on Political Education, the political arm of the AFL-CIO), Right Wing Reports I; Right Wing Extremists: COPE, Right Wing Reports II; Right Wing Extremists: Opposition to; Right Wing Extremists: Reports; Right Wing Extremists Pamphlets; Schools: Desegregation; Rabbi Benjamin Schultz; Gerald L. K. Smith; Dan Smoot Report; Supreme Court: Attacks On; United Nations: Attacks on; Edwin A. Walker; George Wallace; We, the People; White Citizens Councils; Kevin White; and Young Americans for Freedom.
Websites with information:
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/fa_index.html
http://ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/otherArchives.html
Finding aids:
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/bernstein_content.html
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/bernstein.html
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/wag_116/wag_116.html
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/wag_116/dscref14.html
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/wag_116/dscref1242.html
[0290a] Bible Presbyterian Church Records, 1937-1974 (bulk 1937-1956), Record Group # 3
Location: PCA Historical Center, 12330 Conway Road, St. Louis, MO 63141
Description: In 1936 the Presbyterian Church of America separated from the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; in 1938 the Bible Presbyterian Church split from the Presbyterian Church of America; in 1956 the Bible Presbyterian Church split into the Bible Presbyterian Church, Collinswood Synod under the leadership of Carl McIntire, and the Bible Presbyterian Church, Columbus Synod. The records include letters, statements, and publications of Carl McIntire. Pamphlets include Russia's Most Effective Fifth Column in America (1948); The Truth About The Federal Council of Churches and the Kingdom of God (1950); and Building the Superchurch versus Preserving the Old Faith (1953).
Websites with information:
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/32348961
http://www.worldcat.org/title/records-1940-1976/oclc/32348961
Finding aid:
http://www.pcahistory.org/findingaids/bpc/bpc.html
[0291] Martin Bickham papers, 1903-1972, MSBick76
Location: Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago, MC 234, 801 S. Morgan, Chicago, IL 60607
Description: Rev. Martin Hayes Bickham (1880-1976) was a minister, sociologist, civil rights activist, and civil liberties advocate. The papers contain agendas, financial statements, bulletins, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, press releases, by-laws, clippings, correspondence, journals, letters, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, artifacts, photographs, plans, posters, proceedings, research notes, resolutions, speeches, and reports spanning the mid-1920s through about 1971. Series I: Family and Personal Papers. Subseries A: Subject Files 1920s-1950s, contains files on Nazism and Anti-Semitism, White Circle League, and Desegregation and Integration in Chicago. Subseries C: Clippings and Diaries, contains clippings on John Birch Society and notes and clippings on racism. Series III: Professional. Subseries A: Subject, contains files on race relations, Haake, Fifield and Freedom Forum Anti-Communism, June-July 1951; and Christianity and Communism clippings, ca. 1951. Subseries D: Talks and Writing, contains notes on Houston Chamberlain, racist dogmas, Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler and the Nazis, Gobineau's theories of racial inequalities, and Joseph Arthur Gobineau's later work. Series IV: Civil Rights Work, contains clippings on Desegregation, racism, Civil Rights, and Segregation, and files on Segregation in Illinois Schools, Citizens council, and Klan Membership.
Websites with information:
http://findingaids.library.uic.edu/sc/
http://library.uic.edu/collections/special-collections-university-archives/finding-aids
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/manuscriptcollections.shtml
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/
http://library.uic.edu/home/collections/manuscripts-and-rare-books/finding-aids
Finding aids:
http://findingaids.library.uic.edu/ead/rjd1/MBickhamf.html
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/MBickhamb.html
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/MBickhamf.html
[0292] Arthur K. Bierman Papers, 1959-1969, Coll. 1991/026
Location: Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University, 480 Winston Drive, San Francisco, California 94132
Description: Arthur K. Bierman (1923-) was a San Francisco State University professor, an organizer of the American Federation of Teachers, and president of the United Professors of California. After a proposed hearing in California in 1959 was canceled, the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) again focused on California and held hearings at San Francisco City Hall in May 1960, which provoked mass opposition from students, teachers and other groups who demonstrated at City Hall. Bierman organized opposition to HUAC in 1959-1960. Series III Anti-HUAC Activities, contains a folder on HUAC's film "Operation Abolition."
Websites with information:
http://www.library.sfsu.edu/about/depts/larc/pdfs/larc-holdings.pdf
Finding aids:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7v19n9cg/
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7v19n9cg/entire_text/
[0292a] Poultney Bigelow papers, 1855-1954, MssCol 302
Location: Manuscripts and Archives Division, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Description: Poultney Bigelow (1855-1954) was a journalist, author, and world traveler. Series II. General Correspondence, contains files on Brooks Adams, Hilaire Belloc, Nicholas Murray Butler, Josephus Daniels, Thomas A. Edison, Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, Rudyard Kipling, William Langer, Charles A. Lindbergh, Count Felix Luckner, General Douglas MacArthur, H. L. Mencken, Gifford Pinchot, Elihu Root, Margaret Sanger, Sen. Robert A. Taft, and George S. Viereck (with related materials on Viereck's prosecution).
Websites with information:
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20081024150939/http://www.nypl.org:80/research/chss/spe/rbk/resu
lt.cfm?find=1
Finding aids:
http://archives.nypl.org/mss/302
http://archives.nypl.org/uploads/collection/pdf_finding_aid/bigelowp.pdf
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20070611194753/http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/big
elowp.pdf
[0292b] John W. Biggert Company printer's sample kit, around 1973
Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Box 90185, 103 Perkins Library, Durham, North Carolina 27708
Description: The John W. Biggert Company was a commercial printer located in Memphis, Tenn., that operated from about 1960-2003. Collection comprises a printer's sample kit containing 30 tracts that was mailed in 1973 to Frank Deodene at the Chatham Bookseller in Chatham, N.J., in a business envelope (included). Kit includes two bumper stickers, 10 business card-sized handouts, 16 handbills, and an order form, all featuring John W. Biggert's opinions. The tracts are stridently patriotic, conservative, pro-Christian, and anti-counterculture. They contain no explicit racist or anti-Semitic content, but they assail every other aspect of Vietnam-era American popular culture, from sex-ed to abortion, the anti-war movement, politics, communism, the United Nations, and the National Council of Churches. The Hippie movement appears to have been the particular focus of Biggert's wrath; the peace symbol is described as either an emblem of the Antichrist (the "Broken cross") or as "the footprint of the American chicken." Hippies are portrayed variously as smelly, of ambiguous sexuality, morally corrupt, or drug-addled.
Websites with information:
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/868146624
http://www.worldcat.org/title/john-w-biggert-company-printers-sample-kit-around-1973/oclc/868146624
[0292c] Howard Biggs Papers, c1900-1950, MS 435
Location: Special Collections, The University Library, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Description: Thomas Howard Ashford Biggs (1917-1994) was a teacher and writer. Biggs joined the British Union, and while at Oxford, he became heavily involved in Fascist activities. In the summer of 1939, Biggs went on a European tour organised by the pro-Nazi Anglo-German organisation called The Link. Biggs left Oxford in 1939, without a degree. In June 1940, he was detained under Defence Regulation 18B. The material consists of letters (some with transcriptions), diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and leaflets; there are also items from and about members of his family from previous generations. Series 435/2. Oxford University: Autumn 1936 to Summer 1939. [Subseries] 2/4. Fascist activities while at Oxford University, contains a list of contributors to "Action", 1937; British Union of Fascists and National Socialists Speaker's Note, October 1937; a letter in the form of a leaflet from THAB, Secretary of the O U National Socialist Club, to G Chesham, regarding the Tea Discussion on 23/10/1938. Speaker was E F Jorian Jenks; and the newsletter of the OU National Socialist Club, for week ending 29/10/1938. Series 435/3. Political material. [Subseries] 3/1. Scrapbook with beige covers, contains cuttings from Fascist publications – probably all from the BUF's Weekly Bulletin, October 1936 to March 1938. [Subseries] 3/2. Loose leaves with separate covers, contains assorted cuttings from Weekly Bulletins, April 1937 to February 1939. [Subseries] 3/3. Scrapbook with dark blue cover, contains cuttings believed to be from the Fascist publication Action, August 1936 to August 1937. [Subseries] 3/4. Scrapbook, with further enclosures, contains cuttings believed to be from Action, July to August 1938, along with several copies of Action and 21 loose cuttings from Action, probably all dating from July-August 1938.