(C) Mourning the Ancient

'To the dead heroes of Britain, in sacred union, we say: like you, we give ourselves to Britain - across the ages that divide us, across the glories of Britain that unite us - we gaze into your eyes and give this holy vow: we will be true - Today, Tomorrow and Forever - Britain lives!'
-Sir Oswald Mosley

"BRITAIN FIRST"

[Below: Oswald Mosley, far left]

[Below: Oswald Mosley]

[Below: Blackshirts saluting Sir Oswald Mosley]

[Below: Fascist demonstration in Hyde Park, Circa 1934]

[Below: Sir Oswald Mosley greets the Women's Section of the B.U.F. as they arrive to attend one many large outdoor meetings held in Hyde Park]

[Below: As above]

[Below: An autographed photo of Mosley and his officers.]

'My friends, it's all there. It's all waiting. Of course it can be done. It depends upon ourselves. You say, "but again, we're scattered individuals. Everything's against us." Governments. Money. Press. Television. All the new forces are used against us. All the great forces, all the material powers of the world, you say are "against you." And so they are. You're quite right to feel that and I don't underrate them. But I don't despair and you shouldn't despair because you, like I, have read something of history. You know something of the record of the achievement of Europeans. And dark as this hour is, it's no darker, it's not as dark, as some of the hours you've known in European history.

...And it didn't only happen once, it's happened more than once. Small bands of men came together in resolution, in absolute determination giving themselves completely and saying, "Europe shall live!" and stood firm and faced the menace to Europe: its values, its civilizations, the glory of its achievement, all those things in mortal danger.

And they stood firm. They faced it. They came together and more and more ran it to their standards and those hordes were thrown back again and again and again! Our Europe lived in triumph because the will of Europe still endured!'
-Oswald Mosley

[Below: Mosley in front/center]

[Below: Oswald Mosely]

[Below: The site of a speech by Oswald Mosley at Earl's Court Exhibition Hall in London, done on July 16, 1939.]

[Below: Oswald Mosley with BUF blackshirts and Italian blackshirts.]

[Below: Oswald Mosley (center).]

[Below: Oswald Mosley (3rd from left).]

[Below: Oswald Mosley (center).]

[Below: Oswald Mosley (left).]

[Below: Close-up.]

[Below: Oswald Mosley.]

[Below: Oswald Mosley (center).]

[Below: Oswald Mosley reading 'History of Western Philosophy'.]

[Below: Oswald Mosley and William Joyce (far left).]

[Below: Oswald Mosley and Italian representative (second from his left) and others at a rally in Rome.]

[Below: Mosley at work. Note the fasces in the window]

[Below: A pretty cool office shot ]

[Below: Mosley in an intense shot. Note the interesting pin on his jacket]

[Below: An early picture of Mosley]

[Below: Another early picture of Mosley]

[Below: Mosley and bride]

[Below: Mosley in military uniform]

[Below: An aged Moseley enjoying an ale]

[Below: The cover of Sir Oswald Mosley book 'Tomorrow We Live']

[Below: Poster]

[Below: The cover of 'Britain First', a transcript of a speech by Oswald Mosley, done on July 16, 1939, less than seven weeks before Britain declared war on Germany. This rally was the largest indoor political rally in world history! Over 30,000 people came to see the sole speaker, Oswald Mosely, who was the leader of the British Union party.]