David Starkey
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John Guy on More …
“Tudor” justice, Anne Boleyn, biographies, Cambridge, David Starkey, executions, G.R. Elton, Henry VIII, Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford, John Guy, John Paul II, John the Baptist, Katherine Howard, Lord Chancellor, Margaret Roper, National Archives, Robert Bolt, saints, Salome, Stalin, Thomas More, treason… or how a Lord Chancellor fell victim to the King he idolised and one historian stayed loyal to his mentor but another didn’t: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/tudor-terror-john-guy-is-on-a-mission-to-bring-history-to-the-masses-876441.html
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I only recently found the attached review of the Channel 4 documantary ‘The Princes in the Tower’, which we all thought was awful! It seems this journalist agreed with us! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11486107/Richard-III-the-Princes-in-the-Tower-Channel-4-review.html
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… David Starkey thinks that he has solved the mystery of the “Princes”. The minor details are: 1) Tyrrell’s trial was for helping the de la Pole brothers, not to do with any “murder” of anyone at all. 2) The (fully documented by Thomas Penn) trial took place at the Guildhall, not the Tower. Henry…
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… that David Starkey has solved the mystery of Stony Stratford. As we know, three to five hundred of the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham’s men managed to persuade Edward V to accompany them to London and not Earl Rivers’ two thousand retainers who had taken him so far. Most of Gloucester’s adherents were in…
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… in which David Starkey took over the “Today” programme on Thursday: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/23/david-starkey-magna-carta_n_7124440.html Rather a shame because he should stick to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, about whom he is the principal expert.
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I write, having watched some of the day live and then the highlights programme. It was moving in many different ways. Sadly, Channel Four decided to utilise Dr. David Starkey again for their coverage and he was even more erratic than usual when he strays from his own area of expertise. “The Richard III Society…
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There were many good things about this programme. Dr. Janina Ramirez joined Dr. John Ashdown-Hill and the lawyer Bertram Fields. All three have studied the late medieval period in detail and in different ways. Then there was Dr. David Starkey. He is a renowned expert on the 1509-1603 period but tends to derive his views…
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This was quite a delightful programme and both Drs. Worsley and Starkey were in top form: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04yg2hr/britains-tudor-treasure-a-night-at-hampton-court Edward VI is the one “Tudor” whose life and actions cannot be held to have offended many people. It is also admirable to celebrate the birth of a healthy legitimate male heir although it is sad that so…
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As we have observed before, Shakespeare’s plays tend to be historically inaccurate but they make good cultural history for his own lifetime. As an example, we took King Lear (probably written 1605-6), in which Cordelia was executed for political reasons, something that almost never happened to women before 1536, in England or Scotland. Similarly, the…
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