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David Starkey CBE is one of our leading historians. He specialises in the Tudor period and has written bestselling and award-winning biographies of the Tudor monarchs; guest-curated major historical exhibitions for their centenaries and presented important TV series on their lives. Culminating in Monarchy, these documentaries got record audiences on Channel 4; received international prizes and two BAFTA nominations, and, repeatedly re-shown in schools, shaped the historical understanding of generations of schoolchildren.
David is also a prominent and forthright commentator on current affairs. He has made memorable appearances on Question Time and Newsnight; while his acerbic interventions as a panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze got him labelled as “the rudest man in Britain”.
All this works well in digital too and his Youtube channel, “David Starkey Talks” has become a must-watch for its forceful style and original analysis of the political scene.
But perhaps it works best of all in live performance, from intimate after-dinner speeches to set-piece lectures in large halls, like the Sheldonian Theatre in the University of Oxford, which David Starkey has filled to capacity twice in recent months.
David Starkey’s geographical range is equally wide and he has performed to acclaim throughout the English-speaking world, from Australia to Hong Kong and most recently in Palm Beach.
