The Battle of Cable Street

Описание: Today we’re taking a look at the history of the Battle of Cable Street and the mural that commemorates it…

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Article on English fascism, with a dedicated portrait of Sir Oswald Mosley and demonstration at Trafalgar Square (London) in Vértice from January 1938.

Portrait photograph of Oswald Mosley taken by Bassano Ltd (28 October 1922). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Viscount Rothermere. (1934, January 15). Hurrah for the Blackshirts! Daily Mail, 10. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EE1865...

Portrait photograph of John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon taken by Bassano Ltd (5 November 1931). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Screenshot of https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/colle...

Anti-fascists engaged in hand-to-hand fighting with both Blackshirts and their police escorts throughout the day.’ The battle of Cable Street in London’s East End, 4 October 1936. Screenshot from https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Detail from the information board in front of the mural showing two pictures of the event. Photographed by me (January 2025).

Photographs of people being arrested taken as screenshots from https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/batt...

Screenshot of https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/...

The Original Plan for the Cable Street Mural (1979) – screenshot form https://jewishmuseumldn.tumblr.com/po...

Photographs of the Cable Street Mural taken by me (January 2025).




Quoted texts:

Robert Skidelsky, ODNB entry on Oswald Mosley.

Mark Bray, “Antifa: The Anti-fascist Handbook” (2017)

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/colle...

Daniel Tilles, The Myth of Cable Street in History Today Volume 61 Issue 10 October 2011


Also consulted, were:


Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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