If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Above all, it was the style of Quakerism I was brought up with - an aggressive contempt for popular opinion. The assumption… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The idea that it's only the young or people who've grown up with a technology who can appreciate it. Complete nonsense! — David Starkey Copy Share Image
If you look at comparative figures, the last two episodes of 'Six Wives of Henry VIII' were watched by 4m. Graham Norton,… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The mere mention of domestic service brings some people out in spots of outrage, but there is a crying need for relatively… — 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
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
