Robin Lyndsey Storey (1927 – 4 July 2005), usually cited as R. L. Storey, was an
English
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historian
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specialising in
late medieval
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English political and church history.
Early years
Robin Storey was born in 1927
in Northumberland and educated at
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. He did
National Service
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at the close of
World War II
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in the
RAF
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, which took him to the
Netherlands
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.
[Jones, M. & McHardy, A., 'In Memoriam', ''Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeology Society'', 3rd ser. 6 (2006), 287] He studied
Modern History at
New College, Oxford and from 1948, moved to the
University of Durham
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to carry out
doctoral research into the career of
Thomas Langley,
Bishop of Durham
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as both '
statesman and bishop,' which was submitted in January 1954. At Durham he was a member of
St Cuthbert's Society
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.
Career
In 1953 Storey joined the
Public Record Office
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in
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, London, as an assistant Keeper
where he met his future wife. His employment provided him with the opportunity for research that would later form the basis of his studies of the
Wardens of the Scottish Marches and the last years of the
House of Lancaster,
partly at least on the suggestion of his colleagues. This research was eventually published in 1966 as ''The End of The House of Lancaster'' by
Manchester University Press. In this, Storey proposed that the fall of the Lancastrian regime, and the beginning of the
Wars of the Roses
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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
, mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom
, established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status
, type = Public
, chancellor ...
, where he would stay for the next 28 years, finally
retiring as
Professor
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of English Medieval History. Notably, he was concurrently both
Dean
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* ...
of his department and chair of his
AUT
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*Agongointo-Zoungoudo Underground Town, Benin
*Aktio–Preveza Undersea Tunnel, Greece
*Airstrip on Atauro Island, East Timor (IATA airport code)
Organizations
*Arriva ...
branch.
Support for local historical societies
Storey was both
treasurer
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Government
The treasury ...
(1958–1965) and general editor (1969–79 and 1994–2003) of the
Canterbury and York Society
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History and activities
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,
as well as a councillor for the
Royal Historical Society
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, the
Thoroton Society
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, and the
Lincoln Record Society
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.
Having joined the
the year he moved to London, writing for them frequently, particularly on the ecclesiastical institutions and law and order issues of the fifteenth century
North West England., as well as for other societies further afield.
[Storey, R. L., 'Bastard Feudalism Revisited', ''Bulletin of the Manorial Society of Great Britain'', 3 (1983), 7–15.]
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)
References
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1927 births
2005 deaths
English historians
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Alumni of St Cuthbert's Society, Durham
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
Academics of the University of Nottingham