Martin Heidegger - The German philosopher Martin Heidegger, was one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century. He attended a Jesuit seminary, then earned (1914) his doctorate from the University of Freiburg, where he became the assistant to Edmund Husserl. Heidegger was affiliated with the University of Freiburg throughout his career except for a brief period as a professor at the University of Marburg. ...

Georges Sorel - Georges Sorel was born in Normandy in 1847 and, after receiving a private education there, attended the Ecole Polytechnique, where he distinguished himself in mathematics. He entered the civil service as an engineer and retired after the requisite twenty-five years, then promptly took up writing, and through innumerable books, established his place as a major social critic. The most famous and most extreme advocate of syndicalism, Georges Sorel's passion for revolutionary activity in place of rational discourse made him most influential in shaping the direction of fascism, especially in Mussolini's Italy. ...

Oswald Spengler - The German historicist writer, Oswald Spengler, was born at Blankenburg, Harz, studied at Halle, Munich and Berlin and taught mathematics (1908) in Hamburg before devoting himself entirely to the compilation of the prophetic philosophy of history, The Decline of the West (Vol. I, 1918, Vol. II, 1922). In this work, Spengler argued by analogy, in the manner of Hegel and Marx, that all civilizations or cultures are subject to the same cycles of growth and decay in accordance with predetermined "historical destiny." The soul of Western Civilization is dead. ...

Sir John Adrian Chamier - Air Commodore, Sir John Adrian Chamier K.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., was born in 1883. He was educated at St. Paul's School and R.M.C. Sandhurst and served in the Indian Army between 1902 and 1915. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1915, which later went on to become the Royal Air Force. ...

Lord Erroll - Lord Erroll the Hereditary Lord High Constable for Scotland, the 22nd Earl of Erroll known to his friends as "Joss" lived in Kenya. He visited Britain in April 1934 and on the 3rd May he visited BUF Headquarters, The Black House in Chelsea, to join the B.U.F. The British colony of Kenya had a very a hard time surviving economically since the First World War. ...

Major General J.F.C. Fuller - J.F.C. Fuller was born in Chichester in 1878. He was commissioned into the British army in 1899 and saw service during the Boar War in South Africa. During the First World War he was a staff officer in France and in 1916 he became chief staff of the British Tank Corps, and it was he who planned the Cambrai offensive which took place in 1917 which involves 381 tanks. ...

Jeffrey Hamm - Jeffrey Hamm was one of the handful of activists who kept the flame of British Nationalism alive in the barren years following the Second World War. A life-long supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley, he served in the original British Union of Fascists (BUF), the post-war Union Movement (UM), and later helped "The Leader" in the compilation of his memoirs (published in 1968 as My Life). ...

Olive Hawks - Olive Hawks joined the secretarial staff of British Union at the age of 16 and soon became assistant to George Sutton, the Director of Research. However, her commitment to "British Socialism" soon gained her a speakers warrant and she became Women's Leader for the Peckham Branch. ...

Dennis Lucan DFM - Dennis Lucan another of Mosley's young men, who nearly fifty years ago, was killed in action in the war which he, as a Blackshirt, had fought just as courageously to prevent. Dennis Lucan enlisted into the RAF in the first year of the war when 16. Did he "fool" his recruiting officers ? we do not know but we do know that his baptism of fire in shot and hail came, not in the RAF, but when as a 13 year old Blackshirt Cadet at the bloody Leeds "Holbeck Moor" Mosley meeting on September 17th 1936. ...

Captain D.M.K. Marendaz was "a swashbuckling ex-Royal Flying Corps pilot, who has a niche in the history of the sports car. he was responsible for a series of elegant custom built vehicles which bore his name in the nineteen twenties and thirties". So went his obituary in the Times when he died aged 91 on November 6th 1988. "A flier of the old school" "who regarded his generation of pilots as the last of the true knights of the air...........in their fragile contraptions of wire and fabric". ...

Thomas Power O'Connor - T.P. O'Connor was born in Athlone in 1848. After an education at Queen's College, Galway, and became a journalist for the Saunders' Newsletter in Dublin before moving to London to work for the Daily Telegraph. ...

A.V.Roe - Alliott Vernon Roe was born in 1877 in Patricroft, Manchester. His father was a Doctor and his mother was later famous for her work in organising and setting standards for day nurseries. ...

Robert Row - Bob Row began his political career by joining the Lancaster Branch of British Union in 1934 at the age of 17. The young Bob threw himself into Blackshirt activity which in those early days attracted much angry violence from the "Red Front". His District Leader was Bill Eaton, who was one of the few who had won the Gold Distinction Award for service to the movement. ...

Bob Saunders OBE - Robert Saunders could probably have become Vice President of the National Farmers Union. However, before the election he announced that he wanted all those who supported him to know of his support for British Union and Union Movement. In the 1970’s, Bob Saunders was the TV spokesman for the National Farmers Union and he was awarded the OBE for his services to farming. ...

Alexander Raven Thomson - After Mosley, the leading intellectual of British Union and Union Movement was Alexander Raven Thomson. In his most important book ‘The Coming Corporate State’ (1938), he set out in clear and precise terms the economic infrastructure that would be put in place once power was given by the British people. ...

F.J.P. Veale - who died in 1976, was a well known member of the Brighton Branch of British Union before the war. By profession he was a soldier. He was also a prolific writer and a regular contributor to the "Nineteenth Century and After", the famous monthly review whose policy was to present objective and unbiased articles on home and foreign affairs. ...

T.E. Lawrence - T.E. Lawrence was born in North Wales on 15 August 1888. He was the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Chapman, an Anglo-Irish baronet. His mother was Scottish. He became a legend in his own time as Lawrence of Arabia - a brilliant active life which ended in a motorcycle "accident" when he was only 46. Many famous people attended his funeral: statesmen, writers, politicians. Winston Churchill wept and called him "one of the greatest beings of our time." ...