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The Mosley Family, Blackshirt and Brexit
05:13 - 08:41 (03:28)
The Mosley family's wealth was built by Nicholas Mosley, an ancestor described as a swindling sheep farmer, expropriating common lands of the English people in the 16th century. Their descendants were allegedly behind Brexit.
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The Mosley family's wealth was built up in the sixteenth century by stealing common lands from sheep farmers.
05:13 - 06:16 (01:03)
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The Mosley family's wealth was built up in the sixteenth century by stealing common lands from sheep farmers. They later leased out their property for a considerable sum of money and became embroiled in a dispute with Manchester's Jewish businessmen in the 19th century.
ChapterThe Mosley Family, Blackshirt and Brexit
EpisodePart One: Mosley: The British Hitler Who Inspired the Christchurch Shooter
PodcastBehind the Bastards
Oswald Mosley's father was described as a hard-writing, hard-drinking, hard-living Tory squire, and he grew up with the belief that Jews were involved in extortionate usury.
06:16 - 07:32 (01:15)
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Oswald Mosley's father was described as a hard-writing, hard-drinking, hard-living Tory squire, and he grew up with the belief that Jews were involved in extortionate usury. Oswald's grandfather was his chief male influence as a child.
ChapterThe Mosley Family, Blackshirt and Brexit
EpisodePart One: Mosley: The British Hitler Who Inspired the Christchurch Shooter
PodcastBehind the Bastards
The family estate of Oswald Mosley was a self-contained economy, with farmers and servants working together to serve the rich people and all buying and selling from each other.
07:32 - 08:41 (01:09)
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The family estate of Oswald Mosley was a self-contained economy, with farmers and servants working together to serve the rich people and all buying and selling from each other. Mosley described his childhood in the estate as idyllic, spending time divided between farms, gardens, and carpenter shops, in a small community with no social mobility.