No other political party in the history of Britain's fascist tradition has been as successful at the ballot box as today's British National Party (BNP). This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Contemporary British Fascism offers an in-depth study of the BNP and its quest for social and political legitimacy.

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NIGEL COPSEY is Reader in Modern History at the University of Teesside (UK). The author of Anti-Fascism in Britain, and co-editor of British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State, he has published widely on British right-wing extremism, fascism and anti-fascism.

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Back to Front': John Tyndall and the Origins of the British National Party The Struggle for the Soul of British Nationalism A False Dawn in Tower Hamlets: The British National Party in the 1990s Fascism on the Fringe: The Ideology of Tyndall's British National Party New Millennium New Leader: Nick Griffin and the Modernization of the British National Party, 19992001 Out of Obscurity: The Rise of the British National Party, 20012003 Successes and Setbacks: The British National Party since 2004 The British National Party in Comparative Context