Reformation: Europe's Holy War

Richard III: The Princes in the Tower

David Starkey's Magna Carta

Britain's Tudor Treasure: A Night at Hampton Court

David Starkey's Music and Monarchy

The Last Days of Anne Boleyn

The Churchills

Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery

Jamie's Dream School

Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant

The Queen at 80

Monarchy

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Elizabeth

The Trial of Richard III

The Crown: A Thousand Year Story

Lost Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs

Lost Pharaohs of the Nile

The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci

Sinking the Lusitania: An American Tragedy

Rome: The World's First Superpower

Northern Ireland's Greatest Haunts

David Robert Starkey  (born 3 January 1945) is an English historian, radio and television presenter, with views that he describes as conservative. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before reading history at Cambridge on a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King Henry VIII's household. From Cambridge, he moved to the London School of Economics, where he was a lecturer in history until 1998. He has written several books on the Tudors.
Starkey first appeared on television in 1977. While a regular contributor to the BBC Radio 4 debate programme The Moral Maze, his acerbic tongue earned him the sobriquet of "rudest man in Britain"; his frequent appearances on Question Time have been received with criticism and applause. Starkey has presented several historical documentaries. In 2002, he signed a £2 million contract with Channel 4 for 25 hours of programming, and in 2011 was a contributor on the Channel 4 series Jamie's Dream School.
Starkey was widely censured for a comment he made during a podcast interview with Darren Grimes in June 2020 that was said to be racist, for which he later apologised. Immediately afterwards, he resigned as an honorary fellow of his alma mater, Fitzwilliam College, had several honorary doctorates and fellowships revoked, book contracts and memberships of learned societies cancelled, and his Medlicott Medal withdrawn.



David Starkey