Blood and Honour (B&H) is a nazi skinhead movement formed in 1987 by Ian Stuart Donaldson, lead singer of Skrewdriver, arguably the most important and most famous nazi band in British history.

Amid growing frustration that the National Front (NF) was financially exploiting the nazi skinhead movement through Rock Against Communism and later the White Noise Club, as well as anger at the NF’s political direction in the 1980s, Donaldson and others formed a new skinhead group unaligned to any political group. Its name was derived from the motto of the Hitler Youth.

The initial B&H bands included the likes of Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack, Sudden Impact, No Remorse and Squadron and it quickly became an umbrella movement for the British white power music scene, organising gigs and producing a quarterly magazine under the same name. Nevertheless, already the movement was on the wane. Youth fashion was changing and the designer-wearing football hooligan world was increasingly coming into physical conflict with the skinheads.

Internationally, however, skinhead culture was thriving. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall saw skinhead fashion dominate youth sub-culture across much of central and Eastern Europe. B&H groups sprung up everywhere and gigs with over 1,000 attendees were commonplace.

British skinheads and white power bands were revered across the continent, in part because of the culture’s origins in this country. Bands like Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack and No Remorse regularly performed across Europe and they likely sold far more CDs and vinyls on the continent than at home.

Travelling abroad for gigs became increasingly attractive as B&H had difficulty in holding events in the UK. Two huge gigs, billed for London in 1989 and 1992, were both massively disrupted as anti-fascists poured out onto the streets in opposition.

Humiliated and bruised, the skinhead movement abandoned the major cities for smaller towns in the East Midlands, South Wales and North East, where small gigs of a couple of hundred people, mainly in the back rooms of pubs, often went unopposed.

Less than a decade after forming B&H, its two main protagonists were dead. Ian Stuart Donaldson (stylised by B&H as ISD) died in a car crash in 1993, while Nicky Crane, ISD’s close supporter and former British Movement thug, died of an AIDS-related illness the following year. While the movement carried on, initially taken over by the nazi group Combat 18, it has been on a steady decline ever since. With an increasingly elderly support base and — in more recent years — more aggressive policing, B&H has become little more than an occasional reunion for old nazis.

Each year tends to see an ISD memorial gig, either on or close to the date of the B&H founder’s death, sometimes with hundreds in attendance. Occasionally, such as in 2008 and 2016, these events have been large enough to attract national media attention.

In January 2025, the Treasury announced a full asset freeze of B&H on the grounds that it is suspected of “promoting and encouraging terrorism, seeking to recruit people for that purpose and making funds available for the purposes of its terrorist activities.” The use of this kind of sanction, which also extended to “any aliases it operates under e.g. 28 Radio and Combat 18”, to counter far-right terrorism is unprecedented.

In June, Robert Talland, a central figure in B&H, was jailed in June for four years, for multiple terror and racial hatred offences. His son Stephen and daughter Rosie were also convicted of race hate offences, having played in a B&H-affiliated band managed by their father.