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Fiona Kay Author & Editor

Neil R. Storey is an award-winning historian who specialises in the social history of Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. He guest lectures for both academic and public audiences, at museums, English Heritage and National Trust properties. He has his own archive of over 20,000 original photographs to help illustrate his talks and publications. Neil has written over 45 books, countless articles for a variety of national periodicals and journals and regularly features on television and radio documentaries and factual programmes as guest expert including BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? Fiona Kay has a lifelong interest in social history with a special focus on women and fashion. She has her own extensive collection of portrait and family photographs, books, magazines and ephemera that record the history of fashion and society from the mid-19th century to the 1950s. She also collects vintage clothing and has participated in historical events and exhibitions all over the UK. Fiona lectures on dating family photographs and was a regular member of family photograph interpretation expert team at the prestigious Who Do You Think You Are? Live! events.