Author: Neil R. Storey

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 ...

Beating the Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and 'Fifth Columnist' saboteurs in Britain and ...

In 1907, H.G. Wells published a science fiction novel called The War in the Air. It proved to be portentous. In the early years of the First World ...

As the world became embroiled in the second global conflagration in just over two decades, the women of Britain once more answered the call of duty...

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

Did you know... In one of the last executions in Norwich Castle Gaol in 1885 an event so horrible occurred that a shadow was cast on the nations Pu...

Norwich is a city that has seen it all. Its citizens have been murdered with poisoned dumplings, royalty and rogues have walked the same cobbled st...

Neil R. Storeys macabre calendar chronicles the darker side of life in Essex. Murderers and footpads, pimps and prostitutes, riots, rebels, bizarre...

This little gem of a book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about Britain and all the ...

As millions of young men marched off to war, they left behind mothers, wives, sisters, and sweethearts who were determined to contribute to the Bri...

Despite or perhaps because of the privations of war, the 1940s was one of the greatest decades for fashion in Britain. The designs and fashions o...