Anthony Hancock has been a member of various far right groups in the United Kingdom and, as a publisher, has produced literature for almost all of Britain's right-wing extremists. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into far right. ... This article is concerned with the production of books, magazines, and other literary material (whether in printed or electronic formats). ...

Based in Brighton, where he owned a hotel called the Heidelberg, Anthony Hancock was the son of Alan Hancock, a veteran of the British Union of Fascists who first set up the publishing firm. With his father as a leading member, Anthony Hancock cut his teeth as a member of the Racial Preservation Society and from this group he became a member of the National Front. ^[1] For other places with the same name, see Brighton (disambiguation). ... The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ... The Racial Preservation Society was a right-wing pressure group opposed to immigration and in favour of white supremacy in the United Kingdom in the 1960s. ... In the United Kingdom, the British National Front (most commonly called the National Front or NF) is a far right political party that had its heyday during the 1970s and 1980s. ...

As a member of the NF, Hancock became a close associate of Steve Brady of the League of St George and followed him into the National Party in 1976. It was at this time that Hancock stepped up his printing firm and was soon producing not only for the NP and the League, but also for the British Movement and later the NF and the British National Party amongst others. ^[2] He later became a supporter of the British Democratic Party ^[3], although by and large he put his own feelings aside and continued to publish for any far right group that asked him to. The National Party was formed on January 6, 1976 by John Kingsley Read as a less extreme alternative to the National Front. ... The British Movement was a British neo-Nazi group. ... This article is about the modern party. ... The British Democratic Party was a short-lived far-right party formed in 1979 when the Leicester branch of the National Front broke away from the main party under the leadership of Anthony Read Herbert. ...

A devotee of Holocaust denial, Hancock set up the Historical Review Press (based in Uckfield) which, funded by Robin Beauclair (formerly of the RPS), became the leading source of Holocaust denying material in Britain. The Press published versions of a number of seminal works, including Arthur Butz' The Hoax of the Twentieth Century as well as an occasional newspaper The Holocaust News. Most famously Hancock published Did Six Million Really Die? and made a lot of money from doing so, to the point where he was sued for royalties in the High Court in 1982. ^[4] David Irving has also acknowledged that Hancock has done some of his printing, although it has been alleged that the relationship is much deeper and that the two have worked together on Holocaust denial seminars [1]. Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ... Statistics Population: 15,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TQ473213 Administration District: Wealden Shire county: East Sussex Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: East Sussex Historic county: Sussex Services Police force: {{{Police}}} Ambulance service: South East Coast Post office and telephone Post... Image:Butz. ... The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry is a book by Arthur R. Butz. ... Did Six Million Really Die? by Richard Harwood (a. ... For other persons of the same name, see David Irving (footballer) and David Irving (politician). ...

Hancock also built up an extensive range of international contacts and was closely associated with Roberto Fiore for a time during the 1980s. ^[5] Distributing large quantities of Holocaust denial material in Germany, he was investigated by the German police in the late 1990s, although no case was brought as he was not breaking UK law and so could not face extradition. His printing offices were raided in 1999 however due to a spate of anti-Semitic mailshots originating from Colin Jordan [2]. More recently, Hancock was forced to pay £19,000 in damages and £81,000 in costs to Brighton solicitor Martin Cray in a libel case.^[6] Roberto Fiore has been a leading neo-fascist in the post-war era, both in Italy and across Europe. ... Extradition is a formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government is handed over to another government for trial or, if the suspect has already been tried and found guilty, to serve his or her sentence. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... John Colin Campbell Jordan (born June 1923) son of a postman, was a leading representative of postwar National Socialism in Britain and around the world. ... For other places with the same name, see Brighton (disambiguation). ... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ...

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