Robin Storey was born in 1927[1] in Northumberland and educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School.
[4] 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.
[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.