Racial Preservation Society
The Racial Preservation Society was a far-right pressure group opposed to immigration and in favour of white nationalism, national preservation and protection in the United Kingdom in the 1960s. Background Although parties such as the Union Movement, the British National Party and the National Socialist Movement organised at the time, much of the opposition to immigration in Britain during the early 1960s was locally based, centering on groups such as the Southall Residents Association and the Birmingham Immigration Control Association, groups that sought to influence local policy makers within the Conservative and Labour parties. Attempts were made to co-ordinate the work of like-minded groups across Britain, although many of these initiatives, such as Tom Finney's English Rights Association or Tom Jones' Argus British Rights Association did not have the organisational basis required to forge any meaningful unity. It was against this backdrop that the RPS first emerged. Formation The first arm of the RPS was founded in Brighton in 1965 by Robin Beauclaire and Jimmy Doyle. With this group covering the South, a second group was established, covering the Midlands and utilising the existing structure of the Argus British Rights Association. Ray Bamford, the chaplain to the BNP's youth movement