Author: Neil R. Storey

Neil R. Storey has drawn on a vast array of original sources - among them witness statements, coroners' reports and court records - to produce a re...

This day-by-day look at the darker side of Sussex's past includes diverse tales of highwaymen, smugglers, murderers, footpads, poachers, rioters an...

Did you know that in the 17th century Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, found witches in King's Lynn, Norwich and Great Yarmouth. In 1885 a...

A Grim Almanac of Cambridgeshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county dating from the twelfth to the twentieth cen...

Around Norwich is not just another book on this fine city. Combining many previously unpublished photographs of outstanding quality and interest wi...

Jostling for position in this cornucopia of the criminal and the curious are diverse tales of baby farmers, garrotters, murderers, poisoners, prost...

London: Crime, Death & Debauchery is an alternative history of the darker side of Britain's capital city. No other book on London covers this t...

Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Norfolk's history. The cases covered here reco...

In this latest volume by Neil R. Storey we encounter some of the personalities, folklore, events, disasters, heroes and villains that have become i...

The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places ...

From gaslit city streets to dark wooded estates, crime was rife in Victorian Britain; through a wide array of historical court records, newspaper a...

In the skies above south-east England in 1940, battle was waged between the men and machines of the Royal Air Force and Hitler's Luftwaffe. At stak...

A colourfully illustrated history of the Women's Suffrage movement, which eventually gained the vote for all British women in 1918. The popular im...

A history of the women who worked the Land and the organisation of the Women's Land Army in the Second World War. When war broke out in 1939, the ...

Throughout the course of the Second World War, many millions of animals were enlisted to serve. Though they had no choice, yet they demonstrated lo...

Prisons and Prisoners In Victorian Britain provides an illustrated insight into the Victorian prison system and the experiences of those within it ...

The Little Book of Suffolk is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about one of England's mo...

From cooks and clerks to weapons analysts and air mechanics, generations of women have served in the Wrens (Women’s Royal Naval Service or WRNS). T...

The burden of the Great War was not shouldered by soldiers alone: the tasks, the camaraderie, the day-to-day life and the devastation were all shar...