R.L. Storey

Robin Lyndsey Storey (1927 – 4 July 2005), usually cited as R. L. Storey, was an English historian specialising in late medieval English political and church history.

Early years Robin Storey was born in 1927 in Northumberland and educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School. He did National Service at the close of World War II in the RAF, which took him to the Netherlands. He studied Modern History at New College, Oxford At Durham he was a member of St Cuthbert's Society.

Career In 1953 Storey joined the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, London, as an assistant Keeper In this, Storey proposed that the fall of the Lancastrian regime, and the beginning of the Wars of the Roses were to be found in 'the compulsions of bastard feudalism', and, in Stores' own words, ''the escalation of private feuds' by the nobility. By 1962 he had joined the University of Nottingham, where he would stay for the next 28 years, finally retiring as Professor of English Medieval History. Notably, he was concurrently both Dean of his department and chair of his AUT branch. and the Lincoln Record Society. as well as for other societies further afield.

Publications Books The Register of Thomas Langley bishop of Durham 1406–1437 4 vols, (Durham, 1956–61) The End of the House of Lancaster (Manchester, 1966) The Reign of Henry VII (Blandford, 1968) The Register of Gilbert Welton, Bishop of Carlisle 1353–1362 (Woodbridge, 1999) The Register of Thomas Appleby, Bishop of Carlisle: 1363–1395 (Woodbridge, 2006)

Articles "Marmaduke Lumley, Bishop of Carlisle, 1430–1450', Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, NS 55 (1955), 112–31 "The Wardens of the Marches of England towards Scotland, 1377–1489", English Historical Review, 72 (1957), 593–615 "Episcopal King Makers in the Fifteenth Century", in Dobson, R. (ed.), The Church, Politics and Patronage in the Fifteenth Century, pp. 82–98 "The universities during the Wars of the Roses", in Williams, D. (ed.), England in the Fifteenth Century (Woodbridge, 1987), pp. 315–327 "The First Convocation, 1257?", in P. R. Coss and S. Lloyd (eds), Thirteenth Century England III (Woodbridge, 1991)