THE INVISIBLE THREAD
Welcome to the “Invisible Thread” blog. The thread in question is the one on which I string together little trinkets of information, many of which I’ve overturned during my research for the George Harley Mysteries — the gems of gen that sparkle enough to catch my imagination, or the dark and grubby facts that fascinate me with their ugliness.
And once threaded together they often form a strange connection, one leading on to the next …
BRITISH FASCISM – Girl Guides from Hell, Fascist Vets, and the Blackshirt Baronet.
PART II
The early incarnations of British fascism had a decidedly upper-class flavour and attracted some extremely odd-ball characters. The first UK group to follow Mussolini’s lead was...
BRITISH FASCISM – Girl Guides from Hell, Fascist Vets, and the Blackshirt Baronet.
PART I
The first book in the George Harley Mystery series, MASK OF THE VERDOY, features a British Fascist organization—Sir Pelham Saint Clair’s British Brotherhood of Fascists (BBF). Although the plot is obviously a work of fiction, I was keen to...
