Occasionally a small group of previously unremarkable people erupt and conquer the world: the Macedonians, the Romans, the British, the Japanese, the Brontë sisters. The Mitford family in the early ...

In the 1930s, Worthing was a hotbed of fascism. Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, was a frequent visitor and held several public meetings in the West Sussex town. His ...