MEPO 2 Metropolitan Police: Office of the Commissioner: Correspondence and Papers
Record Summary
Scope and content
British Union of Fascists: Meeting at Olympia on 7 June 1934 and protest demonstration by Communist Party of Great Britain reports, correspondence and press cuttings.
Includes reports from Special Branch outlining the injuries sustained by those present at Olympia, followed by descriptions by three medical doctors in attendance. There are also cuttings from the Daily Worker protesting about the broadcasting of Oswald Mosley´s speech by the BBC and a pamphlet of eyewitness accounts prepared in the aftermath of the meeting. Among those providing accounts were the authors Naomi Mitchison, Aldous Huxley and Vera Brittain.
