Dr David Starkey CBE, Historian, broadcaster and writer
Tuesday 11 May, Augustine House, Canterbury
David Starkey was born in Kendal, Cumbria, in 1945. He was a gifted student and, after excelling at Kendal Grammar School, won a scholarship to read history at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
After gaining his doctorate, he taught history at the London School of Economics from 1972 to 1998. During this period he began a parallel career as a television and radio presenter.
David Starkey’s series Henry VIII and his Queens, Elizabeth I and the lesser known Tudor monarchs made him a familiar face on British television. In 2004 he began an incredibly popular multi-series documentary on the British monarchy from the Middle Ages to the present day.
David was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1994 and was appointed CBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list.
Books
- This Land of England (1985) (with David Souden)
- The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and Politics (1986)
- The English Court from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War (1987)
- Rivals in Power: the Lives and Letters of the Great Tudor Dynasties (1990)
- Henry VIII: A European Court in England (1991)
- Elizabeth (2000)
- Elizabeth I: The Exhibition Catalogue (2003)
- Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (2004)
- The Monarchy of England: The Beginnings (2004)
- Monarchy: From the Middle Ages to Modernity (2006)
- Henry: Virtuous Prince (2008)
Television Work
- Henry VIII (1997)
- Elizabeth (2000)
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII (2001)
- Edward and Mary: The Unknown Tudors (2002)
- Monarchy with David Starkey (2004 – 2007)