Editing British Union of Fascists (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Blackshorts.svg|thumb|right|Emblem of [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s fictional ''Black Shorts'' movement that appeared in the television series ''[[Jeeves and Wooster]]'']]
* The [[Channel 4]] television serial ''[[Mosley (TV serial)|Mosley]]'' (1998) portrayed the career of Oswald Mosley during his years with the BUF. The four-part series was based on the books ''Rules of the Game'' and ''Beyond the Pale'', written by his son [[Nicholas Mosley]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28497 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012020004/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28497 |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 October 2009 |title=Mosley |author=BFI Film & TV Database |year=2012 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=8 November 2012}}</ref>
* In the film ''[[It Happened Here]]'' (1964), the BUF appears to be the ruling party of German-occupied Britain. A Mosley speech is heard on the radio in the scene before everyone goes to the cinema.
* The first depiction of Mosley and the BUF in fiction occurred in [[Aldous Huxley]]'s novel ''[[Point Counter Point]]'' (1932), in which Mosley is depicted as Everard Webley, the murderous leader of the "BFF", the Brotherhood of Free Fascists; he comes to a nasty end.
* The BUF has been featured in several novels by [[Harry Turtledove]].
** In his [[alternative history]] novel ''[[In the Presence of Mine Enemies]]'', set in 2010 in a world in which the Nazis were triumphant, the BUF led by Prime Minister Charlie Lynton governs Britain. It is here that the first stirrings of the reform movement appear.
** In the ''[[Southern Victory]]'' series, set in a reality in which the [[Confederate States of America]] became independent and the [[Central Powers]] (including the United States) won [[Great War (series)|that reality's analogue of the First World War]], the "Silver Shirts" (analogous to the BUF) entered into a coalition with the Conservatives who were led by Churchill with Mosley being appointed [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]].
** The BUF and Mosley also appear as background influences in Turtledove's ''[[Colonization (series)|Colonization]]'' trilogy which follows the [[Worldwar]] tetralogy and is set in the 1960s.
* [[James Herbert]]'s novel ''[['48 (novel)|'48]]'' (1996) has a protagonist who is hunted by BUF Blackshirts in a devastated London after a [[biological weapon]] is released during the Second World War. The history of the BUF and Mosley is recapitulated.
* In [[Ken Follett]]'s novel ''[[Night Over Water]]'', several of the main characters are BUF members. In his book ''[[Winter of the World]]'', the Battle of Cable Street plays a role and some of the characters are involved in either the BUF or the anti-BUF organisations.
* The BUF also appears in [[Guy Walters]]' book ''The Leader'' (2003), in which Mosley is the dictator of Britain in the 1930s.
* The British humorous writer [[P. G. Wodehouse]] satirized the BUF in books and short stories. The BUF was satirized as "The Black Shorts",<ref name="Code of the Woosters">{{cite book |author-last=Wodehouse |author-first=Pelham Grenville |author-link=P. G. Wodehouse |title=The Code of the Woosters |publisher=Arrow Books |date=1 May 2008 |orig-year=First published 1938 by [[Barrie & Jenkins|Herbert Jenkins Ltd.]] |isbn=978-0099513759 |edition=reprinted |page=66}}</ref> rather than "shirts", because all of the best shirt colours were already taken. Its leader was [[Roderick Spode]], the owner of a ladies' underwear shop.
* The British novelist [[Nancy Mitford]] satirized the BUF and Mosley in ''[[Wigs on the Green]]'' (1935). [[Diana Mitford]], the author's sister, had been romantically involved with Mosley since 1932.
* In the 1992 Acorn Media production of [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''[[One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (novel)|One, Two, Buckle My Shoe]]'' with [[David Suchet]] and [[Philip Jackson (actor)|Philip Jackson]], one of the supporting characters (played by [[Christopher Eccleston]]) secures a paid position as a rank-and-file member of the BUF.
* The BUF and Oswald Mosley are alluded to in [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]'s novel ''[[The Remains of the Day]]''.
* The BUF and Mosley are shown in the BBC version of ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (2010 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' (2010) in which two of the characters are BUF supporters.
* The [[Pogues]]' song "[[The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn]]", from their album ''[[Rum Sodomy & the Lash]]'' (1985), refers to the BUF in its second verse with the line "And you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids".
* [[Ned Beauman]]'s first novel, ''[[Boxer, Beetle]]'' (2010), portrays the Battle of Cable Street.
* C. J. Samson's novel ''Dominion'' (2012) has Sir Oswald Mosley as [[Home Secretary]] in a "post-[[Dunkirk evacuation|Dunkirk]] peace with Germany alternate history thriller" set in 1952. [[Lord Beaverbrook]] is Prime Minister of an authoritarian coalition government. Blackshirts tend to be auxiliary policemen.
* In the film ''[[The King's Speech]]'' (2010), a brief shot shows a brick wall in London plastered with posters, some of them reading "Fascism is Practical Patriotism" and others reading "Stand by the King". Both sets of posters were put up by British Blackshirts, who supported [[King Edward VIII]]. Edward was suspected of fascist leanings.<ref>Ziegler, ''King Edward VIII: The official biography'', p. 392</ref>
* [[Sarah Phelps]] used the British Union of Fascists' insignia as a theme in her 2018 [[BBC One]] adaptation of [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''[[The ABC Murders (TV series)|The A.B.C. Murders]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/entries/4e6f59df-9a65-43f8-b02f-6353eecd27c7 |title=The ABC Murders |website=BBC Writers' Room |author=Sarah Phelps |date=20 December 2018 |access-date=24 January 2019 |archive-date=26 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126011031/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/entries/4e6f59df-9a65-43f8-b02f-6353eecd27c7 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Amanda K. Hale]]'s novel ''Mad Hatter'' (2019) features her father [[James Larratt Battersby]] as a member of the BUF.
* Mosley was portrayed by [[Sam Claflin]] in Series 5 and 6 of the BBC show ''[[Peaky Blinders (TV series)|Peaky Blinders]]'' as the founder of the BUF.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49405924 |title=Who was Sir Oswald Mosley? |work=[[BBC News]] |date=26 August 2019 |access-date=7 October 2019 |archive-date=4 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904012611/https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49405924 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The legacy of BUF is a theme of the final episode of season 8 of the detective series ''[[Father Brown (2013 TV series)|Father Brown]]''.