Listen to David Lammy, an archetypal successful black man. If you turn the screen off so that you are listening to him… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The wives of Henry VIII are too big to be left to chick lit. Their importance is the impact they have on… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Academics aren't paid very much, but as a single gay man I was never badly off. You don't have kids. You don't… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I started school in the autumn term of 1949 when there was a tomato glut. We had tomatoes in every form known… — 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
