The Britons

The Britons
SuccessorBritons Publishing Society (incorporated 1922) (dissolved and defunct, 1975)
Formation1919
FounderHenry Hamilton Beamish
Dissolved1931 (chiefly limited to publishing house and its sponsorship)
TypeNationalism
Antisemitism
Racial discrimination
Cultural conservatism
PurposePolitical organisation and publisher
Location
Key people
John Henry Clarke

The Britons was an English anti-Semitic and anti-immigration organisation founded in July 1919 by Henry Hamilton Beamish and John Henry Clarke.[1] The organisation published pamphlets and propaganda under the names Judaic Publishing Co. and later The Britons, and (The) Britons Publishing Society. These entities mainly engaged in disseminating antisemitic literature and rhetoric in the United Kingdom. The organisation was on the forefront of British Fascists. Imprints under the first label exist for 1920, 1921, and 1922.

According to historian Sharman Kadish, The Britons was "the most extreme group disseminating anti-Semitic propaganda in the early 1920s - indeed the first organisation set up in Britain for this express purpose."[2]

  1. ^ Toczek, Nick (2015). Haters, Baiters and Would-Be Dictators: Anti-Semitism and the UK Far Right. Routledge. p. 82.
  2. ^ Kadish 2013, p. 38.