Nigel Copsey

Nigel Copsey (* 1967 in Ferryhill ) is a British historian and political scientist . He is a professor at Middlesbrougher Teesside University . His research focuses on the history of fascism and right-wing extremism in the United Kingdom.

life and work

Copsey was born in Ferryhill , County Durham in 1967 . He obtained his Ph.D. 1995 at the University of Portsmouth with a thesis on contemporary right-wing extremism in France and Great Britain.

In 2000 he published his first book, Anti-Fascism in Britain , a monograph on the history of anti-fascism in the United Kingdom. His second book, Contemporary British Fascism: the British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy, published in 2004, explored the rise of the British National Party and its ideology. In addition, he acted as co-editor of several anthologies on the areas of fascism and anti-fascism. Copsey is a member of the Royal Historical Society .

Publications

• Anti-Fascism in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2000. ISBN 978-0-312-22765-4 .
• Contemporary British fascism: the British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2004. ISBN 978-0-230-57437-3 .
• British Fascism, the Labor Movement and the State. Palgrave Macmilla, Basingstoke 2005. ISBN 978-1-4039-3916-6 . (As editor, with David Renton)
• Varieties of Anti-Fascism: Britain in the Inter-War Period. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2010. ISBN 978-0-230-00648-5 . (As editor, together with Andrzej Olechnowicz)
• British National Party: Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge, 2011. ISBN 978-0-415-48384-1 . (As editor, with Graham D. Macklin)

Web links

• On research: Professor Nigel Copsey. Teesside University, www.tees.ac.uk, 2011.
• Institute of Design, Culture and Arts - Members. Teesside University, www.tees.ac.uk, 2011.
• Literature by and about Nigel Copsey in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Teesside 2011a . Retrieved August 6, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Teesside 2011b . Retrieved August 6, 2011.