author
William Andrews
1848–1908
A Victorian writer with a taste for the strange corners of history, he turned old punishments, customs, epitaphs, and superstitions into lively reading. His books preserve the odd details of everyday life that larger histories often leave behind.
7 Audiobooks
At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: Studies In Hirsute History
by William Andrews
Literary Byways
by William Andrews
Old Church Lore
by William Andrews
Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time
by William Andrews
Bygone Punishments
by William Andrews
England in the Days of Old
by William Andrews
About the author
Born in 1848 and dying in 1908, William Andrews was a British author best remembered for popular history and antiquarian writing. His work is closely associated with Victorian readers' fascination with folklore, local customs, legal curiosities, and the social history of earlier centuries.
He wrote widely on subjects that mixed scholarship with storytelling, including punishments, church customs, epitaphs, and other bygone aspects of British life. Titles linked with him include Curious Epitaphs, Old Time Punishments, Curious Church Customs, Legal Lore, and Medieval Punishments, books that helped make obscure historical material accessible and entertaining for general readers.
Reliable biographical detail appears to be limited in the sources I could confirm, so this overview stays close to what is well supported: Andrews was a prolific late-19th-century writer whose books reflect a strong interest in preserving the curious, sometimes grim, and often overlooked details of Britain's past.