Robin Lyndsey Storey (1927 – 4 July 2005), usually cited as R. L. Storey, was an Englishhistorian specialising in late medieval English political and church history.
In 1953 Storey joined the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, London, as an assistant Keeper[1] 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,[2] 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.[5] 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',[6] and, in Stores' own words, ''the escalation of private feuds' by the nobility.[7] 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.[2]
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)