Neil R Storey's macabre calendar chronicles the darker side of life in Essex. Murderers and footpads, pimps and prostitutes, riots, rebels, bizarre funerals, disaster and peculiar medicine all feature. The book is illustrated with engravings, newspaper reports, photographs and original documents. If it is horrible, if it is ghastly, if it is strange, then it is here! If you have the stomach for it, then read on.

Neil R Storey is an award winning historian an author specialising in social history. He has researched and lectured on twentieth-century warfare and its impact on society for 25 years. He began academic life pre and post grad at UEA and now lectures all over the UK. Neil has published over 30 books and numerous articles on a variety of social history themes in both academic journals and national periodicals and has acted as consultant for television and film companies. Neil has a nationally respected archive of original photographs, documents and ephemera to illustrate his works.