I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Since I was a child, I've gone to bed when things get too much. As a result, I have more trouble winding… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time in hospitals as a child with these dreadful calliper things, and in push-chairs and God knows… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
My father, Bob, was a sweet, gentle man who was prone to frustration. I hardly knew him as a child, but that… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my infancy in hospital and actually started school in a wheelchair with this enormous plaster, and then… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The food of my childhood was revolting because I was a child of rationing. However, I still managed to be a very… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read all of… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Churchill may have made some horrendous mistakes - Gallipoli, for one - but he had a sense of the profundity and integrity of the… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Floating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
