Harold Elsdale Goad (4 October 1878 – 26 May 1956) was a British writer, journalist and poet. He was an early sympathiser withfascism, publishing the pamphletWhat is Fascism?, followed by two books oncorporatism.

He was one of those in theBritish Fascists interested in Fascist ideology, withJames Strachey Barnes,^[1] in relation totrade unions and guilds. The books were highly regarded by the Italian Fascist government.^[2] A small group, briefly attached toChatham House, studied the Corporate State and included Goad, Barnes,Charles Petrie and Goad's co-authorMuriel Currey;^[3][4] Goad addressed a Chatham House meeting in October 1933.^[5]

He was Director of theBritish Institute of Florence from 1922 to 1939.^[6]

• Goad, Harold E. (1903),The Blind Prophet - poem
• ——— (1913).The Kingdom. Frederick A. Stokes co.
• ——— (1926).Franciscan Italy.
• ——— (1929).What is Fascism? An Explanation of Its Essential Principles.
• ——— (1932).The Making of the Corporate State: A Study of Fascist Development.
• ———;Burkitt, Francis C.;Little, A. G. (1932).Franciscan Essays II. British Society of Franciscan Studies, Extra series. Manchester, UK: The University Press.OCLC 1096531998.
• ———;Currey, Muriel (1933).The Working of a Corporate State: A Study of National Co-operation.
• ——— (1939).History of the British Institute of Florence.
• ———;Catalano, Michele (1939).Education in Italy.
• ——— (1947).Greyfriars: the story of St. Francis and his followers.
• ——— (1951).A Franciscan Garland.
• ——— (1958).Language In History.

• Tamara Colacicco, ‘The British Institutes and the British Council in Fascist Italy: from Harold Goad to Ian Greenlees, 1922-40’, Moder Italy, 23 (3): 315–29.

• 1878 births
• 1956 deaths
• British fascists
• Chatham House people
• 20th-century English writers

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