Author: Neil R. Storey

Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and ...

Victorian Fashions for Men explores the British styles and clothing throughout the long reign of Queen Victoria from the late 1830s to the first ye...

_Victorian Fashions_ _for Women_ explores the British styles and clothing throughout the long reign of Queen Victoria, from the late 1830s to the f...

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...

In the years immediately before the First World War, the British Army was comprehensively reformed, and new training manuals and regulations were i...

The Little Book of Norfolk is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about one of Englands mos...

The Little Book of Murder is a chilling compendium of intriguing, obscure and strange facts and trivia about murders and murderers from around the ...

The Second World War affected the people of Britain like nothing before. This was especially true of Britains women. With thousands of men called u...

Since the first publication of Dracula in 1897, there have been suggestions that the book''s protagonist is more closely associated with Jack the R...

By 1945 the British Army numbered 3 million men and was about three times as large as it had been when the Second World War broke out in 1939. Brit...

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation''s wartime need f...

Norwich in the Second World War is the story of the city and its people, both civilian and military, from the construction of the first air raid sh...

This book tells the story of the people of Tyneside and Northumberland during the First World War, both in action on the front line and on the Home...

Tommy Atkins has been the nickname given to soldiers of the British Army since the eighteenth century. The origin of the name is shrouded in myster...

Norfolks military heritage dates back to the earliest times, from Iron Age forts, Iceni strongholds and Boudicas rebellion against Roman occupation...

Norfolk in the Great War explores the story of the county of Norfolk, its military forces and the impact of the war on local people through a fasci...

_Faces of the Home Front_ presents a fascinating insight into the people, wartime organisations, events, life and work on the British Home Front du...

The whole of Britain's coastline was involved in the struggle against the Nazis. In the early days invasion was the main threat.Dover and the South...

Discover the darker side of Norfolk with this remarkable collection of true-life crimes from across the county. Featuring tales of some of the most...

This little book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about the one certainty in all our ...

This is the story of those who ended up on the end of the hangmans rope at Norwich Castle Prison, Norwich City Prison on Earlham Road and the later...

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, everybody in Britain knew that the civilian population would be affected far more than they ...