Biography

Mickey Mayhew is a disabled author and historian from London, working mainly on Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Boleyn, and the Romanovs; his PhD covered the contentious online ‘cults’ surrounding both Mary and Anne. He wrote The Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots (The History Press) in 2014 and then I Love The Tudors (Pitkin Publishing) in 2016. House of Tudor – A Grisly History and Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots – The Men Who Kept the Stuart Queen were released by Pen & Sword Books in 2022. Rasputin and his Russian Queen – The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra was released in March 2023, with the highly controversial The Anne Boleyn Bible following in November, both again courtesy of Pen & Sword Books.

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Previously to this, he co-authored three books relating to Jack the Ripper for the Whitechapel Society (again, The History Press), whilst fictional work included the urban fantasy trilogy, The Barrow Boys of Barking, beginning with Jack and the Lad and concluding with Jamie’s Big Bang. His tongue-in-cheek memoir Mickeypedia is still available, with proceeds going to the Anna Kennedy Online autism charity. In August 2025, the first volume of the Dear Boss trilogy was published, the book a fictional take on the aforementioned Jack the Ripper murders, but one with a decidedly modern twist. Also released in 2025 was The Romanovs Under House Arrest: The Russian Revolution and A Royal Family’s Imprisonment in their Palace, again from Pen & Sword Books.

Currently, Mickey is working – with the help of several academics and film directors – on what might be considered the definitive biography of American serial killer Ed Gein.

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Books

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Articles

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A Royal Family’s Imprisonment

A Royal Family’s Imprisonment

Almost as feted a family as the Tudors, the name conjures images of decadent royal Russia, of grizzled Siberian sorcerers and beautiful princesses (or grand duchesses), bejewelled palaces and icy, splendid St Petersburg. Although their reign spanned some several centuries, the majority of the ...
Mr Gein

Mr Gein

A great deal of garbage has been written regarding 1950s American murderer and ‘body snatcher’/graverobber Ed Gein. Gein (born in 1906) grew up in Plainfield in Wisconsin under the thumb of an - allegedly - religious zealot of a mother; she was his entire world and when she passed away, he ...

Author Interview

Mickey Mayhew on The Romanovs

Mickey Mayhew, your new book covers the final days of the Romanovs, focusing on their imprisonment in the Alexander Palace. What drove you to dig into these few months specifically?

I have been fascinated by the Romanovs since picking up a biography on Rasputin in 2018; ...

In Conversation with Mickey Mayhew

What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in?

The mystery. Was Mary Queen of Scots really guilty? Come to think of it, was Anne Boleyn? (because, let’s face it, you don’t make the pathologically egotistical Henry VIII look like a complete and utter cuckold ...