History writer: fiction and non-fiction.
Amazon bestseller Naomi Clifford’s latest book, 13 Park Lane, is an historical crime mystery based on a true murder of 1872. She is currently working on another historical crime novel.
Naomi Clifford likes nothing better than rooting out and giving voice to those whose lives have not yet been told.
In 2010, as part of a campaign to restore the war memorial at Stockwell, she researched the 574 men listed on it and self-published the results as These Were Our Sons.
In 2014, while trawling the archives, Naomi chanced on the story of the abduction of a teenage heiress in 1817, and fixed her focus on women of the Georgian era. The resulting book, The Disappearance of Maria Glenn, was published by Pen & Sword in 2016. This was followed by Women and the Gallows 1797–1837 (2017), an exploration of the stories of 131 female ‘unfortunate wretches’ hanged in England and Wales, and The Murder of Mary Ashford (2018), which casts a fresh eye on a notorious and unsolved 1817 rape-murder and uncovers, for the first time the likely truth about what happened.
In 2020 Caret Press published Under Fire, about the life and diaries of June Spencer, an ambulance driver during the London Blitz. Out of the Shadows: Essays on 18th and 19th Century Women and On the Wings of Love followed.
She is a contributing editor to vauxhallhistory.org and a podcaster on thedoorpodcast.com.
Naomi Clifford is available for interview, broadcast days and other media events.
