What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother. — 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 was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
My mother had been an incredibly bright kid but her family couldn't afford for her to stay in education. So she lived… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
My father was a trained engineer who got his qualifications at night school. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
My mother scrubbed other people's floors for a living, and I remember vividly her worrying about being down to the last half… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
My relationship with my mother was unhealthily close. She was very supportive but wanted to fulfil her ambitions though me and was… — 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
