David Starkey
David Starkey ( born January 3, 1945 in Kendal, Westmorland ) is a British historian and author.
Life
After leaving school in Kendal, Westmorland, Starkey studied history at the University of Cambridge. From 1972 to 1998 Starkey taught as a professor of history at the London School of Economics. Besides his work as a teacher, he was the British radio station BBC 4 to hear Moral Maze as a radio presenter in the program The. Starkey wrote as an author over the years many works on the history of England. He is regarded in England as an expert on the Tudor period.
Starkey lives in London with his life partner, James Brown.
A big controversy came a 13 August 2011 made on television by the BBC remark Starkey, after the violent riots in England were in 2011 an expression of a " violent, destructive and nihilistic ' gang culture ', and the white" rednecks " (engl. " chavs " ) have received from " black immigrants ". Starkey then racism was accused, especially since he still was the late and controversial right-wing politician Enoch Powell right that as a result of mass immigration to Britain "rivers of blood " ( " Rivers of said Blood " ) on the island come to see.