I despise this man. I cannot imagine what it must have been like to be in his court.
bookshelves: spring-2013, tudor, nonfiction, history, published-2000, biography, politics Read from March 02 to 05, 2013 David Starkey is a crassly stupid man in reality, an arrogant water-muddier who relishes poking sticks into hornets' nests:http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/201...http://www.d...
David Starkey is a crassly stupid man in reality, an arrogant water-muddier who relishes poking sticks into hornets' nests:http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/may/10/starkey-comment-gang-sexually-exploiting-girlshttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109273/David-Starkey-courts-controversy-clai...
This book was really everything I look for in a non-fiction book about history. It was so engagingly written that it could have been non-fiction, but sources were all cited and deviations from accepted wisdom among Henry VIII scholars were mentioned. The story was presented chronologically, with a f...
David Starkey is the British version of Kayne West. No, no, he is. Both men are extremely talented but suffer from terminal foot in mouth disorder. Haven't you read Starkey's latest about the riots? Haven't your heard about Starkey calling some school child fat? You must have heard about West a...