Defence Regulation 18B was a sub-section of the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 passed by the Houses of Parliament prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. 18B allowed the Government to intern individuals suspected of being Nazi sympathisers, suspending their right to habeas corpus. Sir Oswald Mosley and his wife Lady Diana, as well as a number of their acolytes, were interned in London and later on the Isle of Man under 18B. This volume contains Home Office records relating to their imprisonment.

Series: HO 283 (Home Office: Defence Regulation 18B, Advisory Committee Papers)

References: HO283/6 (Details of British Union of Fascists Companies, 1940-1941);  HO283/7 (Financial accounts of the British Union of Fascists, 1935-1940); HO283/8 (Letter to Mr. Norman Birkett K.C. from the security services, 13 July 1940); HO283/9 (Brief for the Advisory Committee, July 1940); HO283/10 (Metropolitan Police report regarding accounts at Westminster Bank in the names of Allen, Dundas and Tabor, July 1940); HO283/11 (Complaint by Sir Oswald Mosley that he was not allowed access to papers before his appeal, July 1940); HO283/12 (Reasons for Order made under Defence Regulation 18B in the case of Oswald Ernald Mosley, 1940); HO283/13 (Notes of hearing: first day, 2 July 1940; HO283/14 (Notes of hearing: second day, 3 July 1940); HO283/15 (Notes of re-hearing: 15 July 1940); HO283/16 (Notes of re-hearing: 22 July 1940); HO283/17 (Papers accompanying the Advisory Committee's recommendation, 1940); HO283/18 (Advisory Committee's recommendation to the Secretary of State, 1940).