Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives. Archie Henderson

Howard Biggs Papers, c1900-1950, MS 435

      Location: Special Collections, The University Library, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK

      Description: Thomas Howard Ashford Biggs (1917-1994) was a teacher and writer. Biggs joined the British Union, and while at Oxford, he became heavily involved in Fascist activities. In the summer of 1939, Biggs went on a European tour organised by the pro-Nazi Anglo-German organisation called The Link. Biggs left Oxford in 1939, without a degree. In June 1940, he was detained under Defence Regulation 18B. The material consists of letters (some with transcriptions), diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and leaflets; there are also items from and about members of his family from previous generations. Series 435/2. Oxford University: Autumn 1936 to Summer 1939. [Subseries] 2/4. Fascist activities while at Oxford University, contains a list of contributors to "Action", 1937; British Union of Fascists and National Socialists Speaker's Note, October 1937; a letter in the form of a leaflet from THAB, Secretary of the O U National Socialist Club, to G Chesham, regarding the Tea Discussion on 23/10/1938. Speaker was E F Jorian Jenks; and the newsletter of the OU National Socialist Club, for week ending 29/10/1938. Series 435/3. Political material. [Subseries] 3/1. Scrapbook with beige covers, contains cuttings from Fascist publications – probably all from the BUF's Weekly Bulletin, October 1936 to March 1938. [Subseries] 3/2. Loose leaves with separate covers, contains assorted cuttings from Weekly Bulletins, April 1937 to February 1939. [Subseries] 3/3. Scrapbook with dark blue cover, contains cuttings believed to be from the Fascist publication Action, August 1936 to August 1937. [Subseries] 3/4. Scrapbook, with further enclosures, contains cuttings believed to be from Action, July to August 1938, along with several copies of Action and 21 loose cuttings from Action, probably all dating from July-August 1938.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/special/biggs

      http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/special/specalphae

      http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/2014/14digests/politics.htm

      Finding aids:

      http://cdm15847.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15847coll6/id/94/rec/2

      http://cdm15847.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15847coll6/id/94

      https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.517389!/file/Biggs.pdf

      [0293] Theodore G. Bilbo Papers, 1905-1947, M2

      Location: Special Collections, McCain Library and Archives, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive #5148, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5148

      Description: Theodore G. Bilbo (1877-1947) was a governor of Mississippi and United States Senator (1935-1947). Bilbo, a staunch segregationist, worked to prevent integration by, among other things, proposing a repatriation act. Correspondence, memoranda, financial records, newspapers, broadsides, photographs, and scrapbooks. Files on America First Propaganda; American Liberty League Bulletin; The American Mercury; American Defenders - Coral Gables, Florida [Major Frank Pease, National Commander]; Anti-Lynching Bill; Anti-Poll Tax; Bretton Woods Legislation; Mary Dawson Cain (see also Summit Sentinel); Taylor Caldwell; Caucasian League of America; Communism; Dies Investigating Committee; Dumbarton Oaks; James O. Eastland; Economic Council Letter; Eugenics; Free White Americans, Incorporated; Leonard E. Golditch, "Bilbo - Hitler's Torch Carrier," The New York Sunday Report (August 12, 1945); Adolf Hitler; Isolationism; Ku Klux Klan; Governor Alf M. Landon; Charles A. Lindbergh; Huey P. Long; Clare Boothe Luce; Benito Mussolini; Nazi Matters; Negro Lynching Matters; Pearl Harbor Incident; Westbrook Pegler; Race Issue; Repatriation - Bills, Speeches, Statements; The Rubicon; Segregation Matters; Share Our Wealth Society; States Rights; Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization (Drafts); Townsend Plan; Un-American Committee Reports; Uncensored (Pamphlet); White American Comrades; and Yalta Conference.

      References:

      William D. McCain, "The Theodore G. Bilbo Papers," Southern Quarterly, Vol. 3, no.4 (July 1965): 263-79;

      Alan Brinkley, "Huey Long, The Share Our Wealth Movement, and the Limits of Depression Dissidence," Louisiana History 22.2 (Spring 1981), pp. 117-134, http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/Radhistory/radical%20­history%20articles/Huey%20Long%20and%20Limits%20of%20US%20Dissent.pdf; Jennifer Brannock, "Documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi: An Overview of the Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi," The Primary Source (Society of Mississippi Archivists), Vol. 33, Issue 1 (Summer 2014), pp. 21-26 (p. 23), http://aquila.usm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=theprimarysource.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/lists-of-collections/alphabetical.html

      Finding aids:

      http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m002.htm

      http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m002.htm?m002text.htm~mainFrame

      http://lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/finding_aids/m002

      [0293a] Records concerning the Bilderberg Conferences

      Location: William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, 1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

      Description: The Bilderberg meetings began in 1954 when a group of leading citizens from Western Europe and the United States started to hold regular conferences for off-the-record discussions of major trends in the postwar period among the Atlantic Community. About 115 participants are invited to each meeting by the Bilderberg chairman in consultation with the steering committee. Members are primarily government and business leaders. Participants speak in a personal capacity, and conference proceedings are not distributed publicly. This collection consists of cables, correspondence, email, memoranda, speeches, talking points, and tracking sheets concerning the Bilderberg Group, its conferences and events in which the President, First Lady, and White House staff were connected.

      Finding aid:

      https://web.archive.org/web/20150905065046/http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/assets/Documents/Finding-Aids/2008/2008-0637-F.pdf

      [0294] Bilderberg Conferenties, 1952-1999, Coll. 2.19.045

      Location: Nationaal Archief, Prins Willem Alexanderhof 20, 2595 BE Den Haag, The Netherlands

      Description: In May 1954 a meeting of leading individuals of the countries of the Atlantic Alliance took place under the chairmanship of Prince Bernhard to discuss informally the problems of the western world. This first meeting was held at the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek. This meeting led to annual conferences, known as Bilderberg conferences, which until 1976 were chaired by Prince Bernhard. Subjects addressed included the attitude towards Communism and the Soviet Union, Communist infiltration in various Western countries, and the Communist campaign for political subversion or control of the newly emancipated countries of Asia. The archives of the Secretariat of the Bilderberg Conferences includes invitations, participant lists, correspondence with participants and countries, working papers, press releases and reports.

      Finding aids:

      http://www.archieven.nl/nl/zoeken?mivast=0&mizig=210&miadt=22&micode=2.19.045&miview=inv2

      http://www.gahetna.nl/collectie/archief/pdf/NL-HaNA_2.19.045.ead.pdf

      http://www.archivesportaleurope.net/ead-display/-/ead/pl/aicode/NL-HaNA/type/fa/id/2.19.045;jsessi

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      [0295] Biles Editorial Cartoon Collection, bulk 1965-1985 [cartoons]

      Location: Poage Legislative Library, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97153, Waco, TX 76798-7153

      Description: Raymond Biles (1921-1991), professor of Education at Baylor from 1958 to 1988, collected editorial cartoons as a hobby. The collection consists of over 25,000 editorial cartoons. Topics of the cartoons include Abortion, Jim Bakker, Robert H. Bork, Anita Bryant, Patrick J. Buchanan, William F. Buckley, Jr., Busing, Civil Rights, Communism, Everett Dirksen, Robert J. Dole, Clint Eastwood, Sam J. Ervin, Jr., FBI, Jerry Falwell, Louis Farrakhan, Gerald Ford, Foreign