Jowett published The Drama of the Lost Disciples which went through 16 editions (up to 2009), selling 55,000 copies through Covenant Publishing (according to the 16th ed. The movement fell into decline after the 1940's, but tenets of British Israelism were later promoted by Herbert W. Covenant Publishing was set up in 1921 by the BIWF, and continues to publish British Israelism literature. I have read a lot about it lately and everything no matter how large or small points to our being the chosen race'. George VI (then Duke of York) had also written in 1922 that: 'I am sure the British Israelite business is true. William Pascoe Goard who became Vice-President of the BIWF in 1921 published more than a dozen books on the theory, which attracted support abroad.

During this time several prominent figures became patrons of the BIWF, including Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone. The Jewish Encyclopedia in 1906 estimated globally that there were once two million proponents of the theory.

The 'Anglo-Israel Association' in Britain had only 300 members in its early years, however during the heyday of British Israelism the membership of the 'British-Israel-World Federation' (BIWF) reached 20,000 at its height in 1920 (Wilson, 1968 Simpson, 2002). Edward Hine also published The British Nation Identified with Lost Israel in 1871, which went on to sell 250,000 copies. Contemporary scholars, such as Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2003: 235) identify the most influential writer who gave birth to the British Israelite movement as John Wilson, who wrote Our Israelitish Origins in 1840.

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