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Richard Thurlow

historian of Fascism

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ87111101 ↗
Source-derived summary

Richard C. Thurlow is a historian of fascism in Britain. He is a graduate of the University of York and the University of Sussex and now an honorary lecturer at the University of Sheffield where he formerly taught.

Selected publications

Articles

"Powers of Darkness: Conspiracy, Belief and Political Strategy." Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 12, No. 6, 1978, pp. 1–12, 23. doi:10.1080/0031322X.1978.9969469.

"Jew Wise: Dimensions of British Political Anti-semitism, 1918-1939." Immigrants and Minorities, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1987, pp.

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“Richard Thurlow” enters the record as historian of Fascism. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Richard, Thurlow and historian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Richard Thurlow” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.