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Dr Steven Woodbridge

Kingston School of Art
Department of Humanities
School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Penrhyn Road

Visiting Fellow - Humanities

[email protected]

About

I am a specialist in 20th century British, European and world history, with particular expertise in British fascist ideology and the wider nature of fascism and the contemporary extreme right. My research has focused on both the interwar and post-1945 periods. I keep a close eye on the current state of the far right across Britain, Europe and the wider globe.

I also have research interests in local history (especially Kingston, Richmond and the wider Thames Valley area), the history of film and TV, the nature of conspiracy theory, British politics and institutions, political thought and ideology, the nature and impact of war, and the role of intelligence and the secret state. I am the editor and manager of the History at Kingston blog site, to which I regularly contribute. In addition, I have both academic expertise in and practical experience of cemetery conservation, and have contributed to policy reviews on this at both municipal and national levels.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Modern Arts: History (Kingston, 1984)
Msc Politics with Sociology (Birkbeck, University of London, 1987)
PhD Political ideology of British Fascism (Kingston, 1998)

Domains

Publications

Discharged and discontented: organising ex-servicemen in Richmond 1917-20

Woodbridge, Steven, 2021, Richmond History Journal (2021/22), 42 pp 40-49, Published

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Book Review of: 'Fascism: A Quick Immersion' by Roger Griffin.

Woodbridge, Steven, 2021, e-Extreme (Newsletter of the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy) (22) pp 8-10, Published

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The admiral who admired Hitler: Sir Barry Domvile, Nazism and early historical revisionism

Woodbridge, Steven, 2020, The British Association for Holocaust Studies (BAHS) website, Published

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Book Review of: 'Fascists among us : online hate and the Christchurch Massacre' by Jeff Sparrow

Woodbridge, Steven, 2020, e-Extreme (Newsletter of the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy) (21), 2 pp 19-21, Published

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Anti-alien agitation in Richmond

Woodbridge, Steven, 2020, Richmond History Journal (2020), 41 pp 40-47, Published

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One of the first deniers? Conspiracy and early Holocaust denial in the post-war writings of Arnold Leese

Woodbridge, Steven, 2020, The British Association for Holocaust Studies (BAHS) website, Published

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Reaction or revolution? Early interwar assessments of the nature of British Fascism in the 1920s

Woodbridge, Steven, 2019, Storia e Futuro (50), Published

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Land, home and nation: the ideology and activities of the Land and Home League, 1911-1918

Woodbridge, Steven, 2019, Journal of History and Cultures, 9 pp 4-29, Published

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Radical Readers: The Left Book Club in Richmond during the 1930s

Woodbridge, Steven, 2019, Richmond History (2019), 40, Published

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Local, Global and Appealing to Women: The launch of the League of Nations Union in Richmond

Woodbridge, Steven, 2018, Richmond History Journal (2018), 39 pp 63-69, Accepted/In press

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Book Review of: 'Mosley and British Politics, 1918-32 : Oswald's Odyssey', by David Howell

Woodbridge, Steven, 2016, Parliamentary History (35), 2 pp 215-217, Published

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Richmond's 'Imps': The Junior Imperial League in the 1920s

Woodbridge, Steven, 2016, Richmond History Journal, 37 pp 64-69, Published

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Book Review of 'A British Fascist in the Second World War: The Italian war diary of James Strachey Barnes, 1943-45' edited by Claudia Baldoli and Brendan Fleming

Woodbridge, Steven, 2015, Journal of Modern Italian Studies (20), 5 pp 752-754, Published

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Racial Fascism in Britain

Woodbridge, Steven, 2015, Bereginya-777-Owl (3), 26 pp 152-165, Published

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Book review of: 'Defining Democracy: Electoral Reform and the Struggle for Power in New York City' by Daniel Prosterman (2013).

Woodbridge, Steven, 2013, e-Extreme, Electronic Newsletter of the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy (14), 4 pp 8-10, Published

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Rebellion revisited? Sunbury National Citizens Union, 1928-1931

Woodbridge, Steven, 2013, Clinical Nurse Specialist, 71 pp 11-15, Published

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Local and vocal: Arnold Leese and British Fascism in small-town politics.

Woodbridge, Steven, 2012, Journal of Medical Systems, 41 pp 43-59, Published

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Reluctant rebels: Sunbury Ratepayers Association 1923-1927

Woodbridge, Steven, 2012, Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, 68 pp 2-4, Published

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Awakening Richmond: the National Citizens Union and fears of socialism

Woodbridge, Steven, 2011, Richmond History Journal, 32 pp 75-79, Published

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Christian credentials? The role of religion in British National Party ideology

Woodbridge, Steven, 2010, Journal for the Study of Radicalism (4), 1 pp 25-54, Published

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Fraudulent fascism: the attitude of early British fascists towards Mosley and the New Party

Woodbridge, Steven, 2009, Contemporary British History (23), 4 pp 493-507, Published

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A spy in Richmond: the Adams espionage case of 1939

Woodbridge, Steven, 2009, Richmond History Journal, 30 pp 74-77, Published

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Kingston and the Congo

Woodbridge, Steven, 2008, Ancestors, 73 pp 44-46, Published

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Fifth-Column fears in Richmond 1939-1940: a brief survey

Woodbridge, Steven, 2008, Richmond History Journal, 29 pp 58-62, Published

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Kingston and the Congo: the brief career of Dr Joseph Moloney

Woodbridge, Steven, 2008, Contributions to Nephrology, 15 pp 6-7, Published

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Using newspapers in historical research: challenges and problems

Woodbridge, Steven, 2007, PROphile (18), 3 pp 6-7, Published

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Hollywood in Surbiton: The Regents House Film Studio in the 1920s

Woodbridge, Steven, 2006, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics, 12 pp 3-4, Published

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The National Citizens Union in Richmond: a brief history

Woodbridge, Steven, 2006, Richmond History Journal, 27 pp 85-88, Published

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Book review of: 'British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State', edited by Nigel Copsey and David Renton

Woodbridge, Steven, 2006, Journal of Turbomachinery (7), 1, Published

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Book review of: 'Fascists' by Michael Mann

Woodbridge, Steven, 2005, Journal of Thermal Stresses (6), 3, Published

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Fascism in Richmond: a brief history

Woodbridge, Steven, 2005, Richmond History Journal, 26 pp 34-36, Published

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The 'bloody fools': local fascism during the 1920s

Woodbridge, Steven, 2005, Geomicrobiology Journal, 9 pp 6-7, Published

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Book Review of: 'The radical right in Germany, 1870 to the present' by Lee McGowan

Woodbridge, Steven, 2004, History (89), 294 pp 319-320, Published

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Book Review of: 'Fascism in Britain: from Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts to the National Front', by Richard Thurlow

Woodbridge, Steven, 2000, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology (1), 4, Published

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Plots against the world

Woodbridge, Steven, 1999, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 67 pp 3-6, Published

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