convicted of distributing antisemitic literature with the intention of stirring up racial hatred by handing out The Longest Hatred. Under the terms of her plea bargain with the Crown, she was spared prison by promising not to republish The Longest Hatred, which she violated in 1994. In another pamphlet misleadingly titled Jewish Tributes To Our Child Martyrs, she repeated the blood libel as she claimed "Christian children were crucified, tortured and bled to death all over Europe in medieval times to satisfy Jewish religious rituals". She also accused the Talmud of sanctifying child molestation, human sacrifice and cannibalism, claiming that Jewish rituals required the sexual abuse, killing and eating of Christian children. She claimed that the Talmud was guilty of "incitements to hatred of gentiles and Christians in particular", and asked the rhetorical question: "Could these awful texts have prompted the child murders?" Finally, she claimed that Jews still engage in the killing and eating of Christian children, complaining that the attorney-general had failed to act on her complaints. Later activities In March 1994, Birdwood was prosecuted for violating the Public Order Act 1986 by re-publishing her pamphlet The Longest Hatred, which denied the Holocaust and claimed the existence of a subversive conspiracy in Britain involving Jewish bankers. According to the prosecution, Birdwood admitted to police that she had written the foreword, edited it and was responsible for its publication and distribution. She was sentenced to three months in prison, suspended. According to Birdwood, the victims of the Holocaust died from typhoid. Birdwood continued to lead British Solidarity as a pressure group, publish Choice, and run a publishing venture, Inter City Researchers, until late 1999, when she was forced to stand down for health reasons. After her retirement, most of these concerns passed into the hands of her associates, the former National Front co-leader Martin Webster and Peter Marriner, also a former British Movement activist. She died from cancer on 28 June 2000. In her obituary in The Guardian, her various pamphlets outlining her anti-Semitic conspiracy theories were described as "chronicles of wasted time". Elections contested Books and articles References 1913 births 2000 deaths British anti-communists British baronesses British people convicted of hate crimes British Holocaust deniers British National Party politicians British political candidates Canadian emigrants to the United Kingdom Canadian Holocaust deniers Canadian people of English descent National Front (UK) politicians People convicted of racial hatred offences Politicians from