Editing January Club

{{Short description|British Union of Fascists discussion organisation}}
The '''January Club''' was a discussion group founded in 1934 by [[Oswald Mosley]] to attract [[The Establishment|Establishment]] support for the movement known as the [[British Union of Fascists]]. 

The Club was under the effective control of [[Robert Forgan]], working on behalf of the BUF. The founders as identified by [[MI5]]<ref>Stephen Dorril, ''Blackshirt'' (2006), p.258.</ref> were Forgan, [[Donald Makrill]], [[Francis Yeats-Brown]] and Henry William 'Billy' Luttman-Johnson. Members of the January Club included military historian [[B. H. Liddell Hart]], Wing-Commander [[Sir Louis Greig]], [[John Erskine, Lord Erskine|Lord Erskine]], a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative and Unionist]] MP and assistant Government whip, [[Lord William Montagu-Douglas-Scott]], brother of the [[Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch|8th Duke of Buccleuch]] and Conservative and Unionist MP, and (according to [[Nigel H. Jones]]' biography of Mosley) [[Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool|Lord and Lady Russell of Liverpool]].

Sir [[Charles Petrie (historian)|Charles Petrie]], who participated in the club's early stages, discusses the club at some length (and offers criticisms of Mosley's methods) in his 1972 memoir, ''A Historian Looks at his World''. The poet and editor [[John Collings Squire]] was another author initially involved with the club but "found the atmosphere uncongenial before long". Petrie's memoir also mentions Yeats-Brown as soon complaining: "The January Club will probably collapse; anyway I'm not going to the next meeting. Mosley is not human enough."

==References==
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==Sources==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=qps14mSlghcC&dq=january+club+mosely&pg=PA179 Barberis, Peter (et al), ''Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations''] Retrieved July 2012
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=xxGSpXjUcvEC&dq=january+club+mosely&pg=PA87 Jones, Nigel, ''Mosley''] Retrieved July 2012

==External links==
*[http://www.marxist.com/TUT/TUT6-2.html Posting of 1948 document with claimed list of members]
[[Category:Fascist organizations in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Oswald Mosley]]