Biography

Mickey Mayhew is an autistic author, historian and researcher from London, specialising in Tudor, Stuart and Romanov history. His PhD explored the contentious online communities surrounding Anne Boleyn and Mary Queen of Scots.

He wrote The Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots (The History Press) in 2014, followed by 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 published by Pen & Sword Books in 2022.

Rasputin and his Russian Queen – The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra followed in March 2023, with The Anne Boleyn Bible published in November of the same year, both by Pen & Sword Books.

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Earlier in his career, Mickey co-authored three books about Jack the Ripper for the Whitechapel Society, published by The History Press. His fictional work includes 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 also available, with proceeds supporting the Anna Kennedy Online autism charity.

In August 2025, Mickey published the first volume of the Dear Boss trilogy, Dear Boss: Meet the Forsters, a fictional take on the Jack the Ripper murders with a modern twist. Also published in 2025 was The Romanovs Under House Arrest: The Russian Revolution and A Royal Family’s Imprisonment in their Palace, from Pen & Sword Books.

Mickey is currently researching and writing a biography of American serial killer Ed Gein, alongside further historical writing projects, including a series exploring the six wives of Henry VIII.

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Books

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Front cover of Stealing Hitler's Rocket by Guy Walters.
Front cover of Stealing Hitler's Rocket by Guy Walters.
Front cover of Stealing Hitler's Rocket by Guy Walters.
Front cover of Stealing Hitler's Rocket by Guy Walters.
Front cover of Stealing Hitler's Rocket by Guy Walters.
Front cover of Stealing Hitler's Rocket by Guy Walters.
Front cover of Stealing Hitler's Rocket by Guy Walters.
Front cover of Stealing Hitler's Rocket by Guy Walters.

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?

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, ...