Political Extremism and Radicalism: New Primary Source database now available

The Library has acquired access to a new primary source archival database: Political Extremism and Radicalism.  

This resource provides insight on US and European  fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum through rare, hard to access primary sources. Content supports research on philosophical, social, political and economic ideologies as well as on contemporary issues surrounding gender, sexuality, race, religion, civil rights, universal suffrage, and more.

Political Extremism and Radicalism consists of two collections:

• Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century
• Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right Groups in America 
  
  
  

Learn more about each of these individual collections.

Highlights include:

• The National Archives (UK) provides access to digitised home office and secret service documents concerning British communist and fascist movements from World War I onwards, including material relating to Sir Oswald Mosley and other suspected Nazi sympathisers.
• The Hall-Hoag Collection which features extremist material from the 1950s-1980s focusing on differing opinions about the civil rights movement.
• The American Radicalism Collection features ephemera for radical groups involved in race, gender, religion and equal rights.
• The Searchlight Archive from the University of Northampton consists of material produced by Searchlight Associates for investigating and exposing racist and fascist groups, including oral history interviews with anti-fascist activists.

Collection Development / Forbairt Bailiúchán