ABSTRACT
As we have seen, from the time Jenks arrived at Angmering, he sought to resist the incoming tide of change by showing that the traditional model of farming was still viable. However, his energies were also increasingly directed to the radical revision of agricultural policy, a mission that would eventually bring him to the fascist movement. Initially, this inclination found its focus in monetary reform, the obscure world of thought and activism inspired by thinkers including Silvio Gesell, Major Douglas and Frederick Soddy, men commonly dismissed as ‘currency cranks’; Jenks remarked in 1939: ‘I was a monetary reformer long before I was a Fascist’.1 As the pages below suggest, he probably joined the BUF in early 1934, but aside from his collaboration with John Taylor Peddie in 1934 – to be discussed below – no other trace of this part of his career has been found.
