Professor Nigel Copsey is Director of the Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies (CFAPS) at University of Teesside, UK. He is the author of Anti-Fascism in Britain (2000), Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy (2004; rev edn, 2008), co-editor of British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State (2005), co-editor of Varieties of Anti-Fascism (2009), co-editor of BNP Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2010). editor of the journal Fascism and co-editor of The Routledge Studies in Fascism & the Far-Right Series.