Starkey was widely censured for a comment he made during a podcast interview with Darren Grimes in June 2020 that was perceived as racist, for which he later apologised. 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 has presented several historical documentaries. 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 first appeared on television in 1977. He has written several books on the Tudors. From Cambridge, he moved to the London School of Economics, where he was a lecturer in history until 1998. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King Henry VIII's household. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before studying at Cambridge through a scholarship. Starkey when a lecturer at LSE in the early 1980sįitzwilliam College, Cambridge ( BA, PhD)ĭavid Robert Starkey CBE (born 3 January 1945) is an English historian and radio and television presenter, with views that he describes as conservative.
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