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It would be perfect if Our Gracious Queen gave Mr Starkey an award next year, during her jubilee, for the joy and education he’s provided to us, her subjects. Love from Australia 🇦🇺
He's definitely not a Boris or a Carrie fan. He calls her "Canne Bolyn". Just shows history repeats when lessons aren't learned. Sometimes it just takes 500~yrs. The parallels Starkey draws between Tudor England and present day is interesting.
What a tour de force by Dr Starkey. Enlightening, entertaining and inspiring. I envy his previous students who were privileged to listen to his lectures at university. The man is almost a force of nature :).
This is the best lecture I’ve seen Starkey give and it’s, what, a couple of weeks old? Post-cancellation? Astonishing. You can tell he’s at his absolute peak during the questions section, riffing away, absolutely loving it.
I echo all who have said that this was an excellent talk, thought provoking and engaging - DS again demonstrates his delectable mastery of our historical tapestry.
What an amazing set of parrallels between Henry and Boris and the Reformation and Brexit and Carrie and Anne Boleyn. David is so amusing and informative, thank you for making my day 😄
@@crawford1083 whoa, there! Mary Beard is an excellent classicist. And I love Starkey as much as anyone. There's room for different styles and interpretations of the same source material. That's just called the academic study of history.
There are very few times when I am so intensely entertained and informed at the same time for such a sustained period of time. This lecture and Q&A is one of those times.
I wanted to watch the entire thing before commenting, I greatly enjoyed the Q&A. This is one of the most forthright and finest lectures on Henry VIII and Parliament I've ever experienced. I really enjoy Dr. Starkey's talks. Today's world needs to hear more of them.
Always a pleasure to see and hear someone speaking with such conviction who also has the detailed knowledge to back it up. He enthusiastic about life. Brilliant. Greetings from Germany.
That was amazing!! As someone who failed education at a secondary modern school..I can only dream and wish we would of had a teacher of such knowledge and passion. Thank you.
Bravo, David. An historical tour de force. Facts don’t care about feelings, but perhaps the young pup at the end was a bit butt hurt? 🤣 Do not argue with the Sage of Cambridge…..
you can't beat David Starkey can you even if you don't agree with him..... he is interesting, entertaining, and can hold an audience.... Well done Mr. Starkey!
David Starkey is simply pure class, real history told with authority yet easy to understand. Will we see the like of him in the future with the shallow, vacuous, feelings before facts generation?
The reality of two Monarchs in Britain is something I’ve mused about before but never really put into words until David laid it out so eloquently here today. It is one of those consequences of history that our system evolved this way and a testament to Republicans that you’d need to do more than stripe titles from the House of Windsor to stop this country being a monarchy.
Nah, just stripping the royal and noble titles would be enough. As a republican, the only thing about monarchy that offends me is the concept of a person holding office through accident of birth. At least we the people can remove 'king' Boris at any election.
‘At least we the people can remove king Boris’ very amusing tell me was it the was the sheep sorry I mean people who removed Theresa May from her position as prime minister or was it her party.
@@thesmilinggun-knight9646 Her party plus Parliament. Although Theresa was not there to clinch any deal, just to keep the negotiations going round in circles.
If David Starkey had been my History teacher …I might have spent fewer years delving in sentimentality and wishful thinking before I began to understand just a little that we are truly lucky to be living in the continuation of this Island’s History . David Starkey ..Making History great again !
Dr. Starkey, you are brilliant! I love your lectures. As a long time Tudor fan, esp. Anne Boleyn, your lectures enrich our understanding of the time period and the astounding events that occurred. You make the time period seem very real, and that is a true gift. Thank you, Sir.
I wish some one of Dr. Starkeys ilk taught history at my school. I would have taken far more notice in the classes than the 3 or 4 sentences per school year in the one work book per year.
So the BBC removed him, because he dared to criticize. Not much has changed since Henry VIII, except that he fortunately still has his head. They should be so ashamed. He's a treasure.
As an American, I was pretty ignorant of British government. It can be frustrating to read about English history because the authors are from the UK and therefor assume that their audience is from the UK, too. I have learned more about how the British government works than I ever thought I would in the last year or so.
Great observation on Sturgeon: as a Scot -- I know all too painfully, the truth of what David says. And further, sanctimony being the drug of the age -- we are over vulnerable to wokery, and the holy-willies of the SNP - all this due to that deep bone Calvinism we never shook off.
Well said....her wobble headed daily lectures during covid....the word "Sanctimony" has never been more appropriate about this tea total, joy hating woman.
This was the finest lecture on English history I've ever heard. Dr. Starkey's low opinion of the Stewarts was especially timely since I've just finished reading Scott's "Old Mortality." Thank you!
Im glad you have survived cancelling. As a scot now living in NZ I was appalled by that. I dont always agree with you . But we need people like you . Especially in these days. This new puritanism cant last forever :) I look forward to following your channel :)
I hope you are right. The only way we can be educated is by listening to EVERYONE and allowing the opinions to be exchanged. I hope that the new understandings about how flawed our actions for the last 3 years have been take hold. Too few people were given FAR too much power and they all broke their covenant to act in the best interest of the society. May enough people realize how we were all oppressed and used so that it never happens again.
Wonderful to see & hear you speak Dr Starkey you always look so smart your such a brilliant & clever man your Mother would be proud off you thank you sir for being you a very honest man love your sense of humour & wisdom l am the woman who gave you the Teddy Bear in Southport theatre Xx
Thank you David, it is wonderful to hear the truth about the British history. Please continue so the children will know history as it was, not as the teachers are teaching the children ....its a total scandal that this is allowed to happen
David Starkey. The antithesis of today’s woke culture. Intelligent, astonishingly well educated, outspoken to the point of being abrasive, no wonder he has so many enemies.
@@Pwwh0711 He was responding to a Black Lives Matter claim that white people had carried out genocide against black people. He said “this wasn’t the case as so many damn blacks survived “ an undeniably racist comment
@@susannamarker2582 I´m more or less a left-wing Puritan (although not British). But I still listen to David Starkey with interest. I don´t agree with him on everything, but I know an expert when I see one :-) I find it odd that my country is an ex-Communist, one but there´s more freedom of speech in our universities nowadays than there is in Britain. It´s normal here to listen with respect to lectures of people you don´t agree with; as indeed it used to be, and in many places still probably is, in Britain.
@@martavdz4972 Yes, but Britain has lost confidence in themselves, and are vulnerable. The left-wing Puritans are free to take over, as they have made us hate our past.
i watch these videos at night and i find myself thinking about them randomly throughout the next day… i absolutely love this channel and anything DS. not arsed
It's rare that a lecture on political history can make me laugh heartily, but this did. Especially Starkey's comparison of Queen Carrie (of Downing St.) to Anne Boleyn, and his recommendation for a similarly well deserved method of despatch. Bloody marvellous. Encore Sir, encore!
V. interesting comment in passing on the effects of William I on the North of England's history, I'd be interested in a lecture on that by Starkers, if it isn't straying too far from his hundred being a late Medievalist. ("King Boris" not for much longer I suspect).
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Dr. Starkey, you have no idea how much we love your work in the United States! Please keep doing these videos!
I’m an American and I share this sentiment!! ❤
Oxford quality lecture, free to all. God bless the Internet.
An hour of Starkey discussing Henry VIII?
I’ve been waiting for this.
Wasn't it immoral for you to hammer the Scots?
Honestly could've done 2, but there would've been riots at University campuses by confused woke children had Starkey continued to enlighten us.
@@fergusmurphy8310 You're forgetting the Devine Right to hammer whomever gets in the way ...
@@fergusmurphy8310 What's your problem ?
@@susannamarker2582 Hi Susanna 👋 I don't like genocide or imperialism. Hope you can understand.
Mesmerised throughout the whole talk. What a wonderful storyteller!
Absolutely!!! 💭🙏🤺
@@domdonald yeah, he's just great. What a man!
Absolutely fascinating and captivated all the way through. Such a wonderful presentation.
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When you don't ever want to stop listening and learning. Thank you Sir David, thank you so much.
I don't think he's a knight but he should be.
@@kevinmorgan8534 Ahh! Thank you, I thought he was a Sir. And yes, he should be. Happy New year.
this channel is going to be a huge success. already going from strength to strength. an hour plus of David discussing Henry VIII? my idea of heaven x
I'm gay for Starkey. Does being gay for a gay guy make you gay?
@@zootsoot2006 No.
He should have started the channel ages ago. Direct way to communicate with his supporters.
@@zootsoot2006 / WHAT?
@@zootsoot2006 no. It just means you have excellent taste🥰
It would be perfect if Our Gracious Queen gave Mr Starkey an award next year, during her jubilee, for the joy and education he’s provided to us, her subjects. Love from Australia 🇦🇺
Would shake thing up a bit ha ha
Yes yes l agree with you Margy Rowland
He's had C.B.E. since 2007. Maybe he should be honoured with knighthood, or the Order of Merit or be made a Companion of Honour?
It would be a nice way of thumbing her nose at those who tried to cancel him. I think she should do it!
She's head of the Church that Henry invented for the purposes of divorce and murder.
An award isn't worth having.
Never thought I would find myself binge-watching a historian. :-)
Sign of the times - when a new narrative is being woven around us, we go back to brush up on the truth.
It is a wonderful rabbit hole to go down!
Great comment 😁
Always wanted that, the content until now just always was so....Internet...
Same. I must be getting old, lol. 😂😂
Wow! This man doesn’t kow-tow to contemporary sensibilities. His interpretations and comparison to the modern day are just fascinating - more please!
He's definitely not a Boris or a Carrie fan. He calls her "Canne Bolyn". Just shows history repeats when lessons aren't learned. Sometimes it just takes 500~yrs. The parallels Starkey draws between Tudor England and present day is interesting.
What a tour de force by Dr Starkey.
Enlightening, entertaining and inspiring.
I envy his previous students who were privileged to listen to his lectures at university.
The man is almost a force of nature :).
Enormous pleasure listening to Dr. Starkey's lectures. Thank you thank you.
He used to breeze in with cravat, tot of sherry, and no notes whatsoever. Unforgettable
This is the best lecture I’ve seen Starkey give and it’s, what, a couple of weeks old? Post-cancellation? Astonishing. You can tell he’s at his absolute peak during the questions section, riffing away, absolutely loving it.
It's only a few days old. Note he refers to the Queen's health as of last week.
Excellent! That's this afternoon taken care of! Thanks David
A joy to listen too - always enriching
Thank you Dr Starkey. I am so glad that your talks are on You tube. I could listen to you for hours.
Well done. Sir. Best of luck from Hamilton Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
I echo all who have said that this was an excellent talk, thought provoking and engaging - DS again demonstrates his delectable mastery of our historical tapestry.
So wonderful to have you back on the screen. Fascinating talk and hope you enjoyed the champagne. X
David, Thank you for posting this. Wonderful.
They cancelled and humiliated this great man - but thank God we can still listen to him!
Humiliated? I don't think so.....he doesn't look much like a victim to me!
they cancelled him but only humiliated themselves.
A fabulous talk, and an eye opener to our Parliament.
What an amazing set of parrallels between Henry and Boris and the Reformation and Brexit and Carrie and Anne Boleyn. David is so amusing and informative, thank you for making my day 😄
Parallels
Lol. I just commented the same thing in the thread. History repeats til lessons are learned.
His statement that the teaching of history is appalling as it involves either rejection & mocking or sentimentalisation rings so true these days.
What a treat, Dr Starkey’s cancellation is our gain.
I want more Starkey!
He can't be cancelled.
The Stark is #uncancelable!
A PROPER historian unlike those brainless tarts Mary Beard and Lucy Worsley.
@@crawford1083 whoa, there! Mary Beard is an excellent classicist. And I love Starkey as much as anyone. There's room for different styles and interpretations of the same source material. That's just called the academic study of history.
Absolutely bloody fantastic talk! Could listen to you all day. Let’s hope to see you on TV once again soon
Don't hold your breath while we have a woke mob of elites as the extant establishment.
There are very few times when I am so intensely entertained and informed at the same time for such a sustained period of time. This lecture and Q&A is one of those times.
I wanted to watch the entire thing before commenting, I greatly enjoyed the Q&A. This is one of the most forthright and finest lectures on Henry VIII and Parliament I've ever experienced.
I really enjoy Dr. Starkey's talks. Today's world needs to hear more of them.
Starkey steps into history like no other.
Always a pleasure to see and hear someone speaking with such conviction who also has the detailed knowledge to back it up. He enthusiastic about life. Brilliant. Greetings from Germany.
That was amazing!! As someone who failed education at a secondary modern school..I can only dream and wish we would of had a teacher of such knowledge and passion. Thank you.
Would have, not would of.
@@susannamarker2582 cheers sue lol
Another surprise…brilliant to hear David Starkey again. Please keep them coming.
My new favourite channel!!
Bravo, David. An historical tour de force. Facts don’t care about feelings, but perhaps the young pup at the end was a bit butt hurt? 🤣
Do not argue with the Sage of Cambridge…..
Ah, but that is the perfection of debate and free speech. It throws a beam on shadow.
Such a wonderful and insightful lecture on Henry VIII, Monarchy and Parliament. A pleasure to see you speak!
Marvellous as always, David. Thank you! This youtube channel is such a step up.
Brilliant and show exactly why medieval and early modern history is essential education for understanding modern politics.
It’s just great to hear someone pronounce hegemony correctly.
I love Verisimilitude. First heard on an episode of Jeeves and Wooster 🙂
How do you pronounce your name correctly ?
I was waiting for eleemosynary, but...
Top notch, David is treasured internationally.
Indeed. Cheers from Mexico.
@ have a great week from sunny Manchester ( never seems to stop raining), England. All the best 👍
Fantastic and thoroughly gripping. Well done, Sir. Keep them coming.
The master of utilizing the dramatic swallow to punctuate each profound point. 😄So glad he is doing this! I’m hooked.
It absolutely was the first Brexit.
The goverment today suffer no consequences
For failure instead they are often rewarded for it.
I thought the first Brexit was Primenuire under Richard II.
Dr Starkey, Great communicator and patriot
I don't think he's a patriot, he just tells the truth; unlike those who prefer the 'Emperor's New Clothes' education technique.
you can't beat David Starkey can you even if you don't agree with him..... he is interesting, entertaining, and can hold an audience.... Well done Mr. Starkey!
Just brilliant and engaging. Thank you David.
These videos are made to be watched more than once. I love that. The picture just gets deeper. Thank you, Mr. Starkey.
David Starkey is simply pure class, real history told with authority yet easy to understand. Will we see the like of him in the future with the shallow, vacuous, feelings before facts generation?
A fantastic lecture - much appreciated. I wish Dr. Starkey could be induced to opine on the history of the British Empire.
Marvellous stuff. Thank you Dr. Starkey
''...a trail of gilded slime'' Has Mandelson ever been so succinctly and memorably summed up?
Wonderful!! Thank you so much!
The reality of two Monarchs in Britain is something I’ve mused about before but never really put into words until David laid it out so eloquently here today.
It is one of those consequences of history that our system evolved this way and a testament to Republicans that you’d need to do more than stripe titles from the House of Windsor to stop this country being a monarchy.
Nah, just stripping the royal and noble titles would be enough. As a republican, the only thing about monarchy that offends me is the concept of a person holding office through accident of birth. At least we the people can remove 'king' Boris at any election.
@@DS9TREK mob rule is cancer. But I admit monarchy is bad too.
Republics are unhappy reactions to what has gone before, like France, Ireland, or especially Germany. So long live the House of Windsor.
‘At least we the people can remove king Boris’ very amusing tell me was it the was the sheep sorry I mean people who removed Theresa May from her position as prime minister or was it her party.
@@thesmilinggun-knight9646 Her party plus Parliament. Although Theresa was not there to clinch any deal, just to keep the negotiations going round in circles.
A true historical contrarian, with parallels to modern politics. Brilliant, as per usual
If David Starkey had been my History teacher …I might have spent fewer years delving in sentimentality and wishful thinking before I began to understand just a little that we are truly lucky to be living in the continuation of this Island’s History .
David Starkey ..Making History great again !
That was amazing!
Excellent talk
He’s the tops! No one comes close for his wit is infectious & his knowledge knows no bounds
From Canada, Thank you for this wholesome education.
Brilliant - fascinating and amusing.
Dr. Starkey, you are brilliant! I love your lectures. As a long time Tudor fan, esp. Anne Boleyn, your lectures enrich our understanding of the time period and the astounding events that occurred. You make the time period seem very real, and that is a true gift. Thank you, Sir.
OMG it is always so good to lisen to Starkey it is just pure joy be able to listen to his lecture
I wish some one of Dr. Starkeys ilk taught history at my school. I would have taken far more notice in the classes than the 3 or 4 sentences per school year in the one work book per year.
Very insightful and inspired. Thanks very much for sharing this.
The praise below, says it all for me.
Fantastic. Purchased Dr Starkey's Monarchy audiobook on the strength of this
Looking forward to this!
He’s spot on about Carrie Boleyn - she will bring down herself and her husband down together. And sooner rather than later most probably?
We can but hope. Not that I have an iota of time for Dame Kiera.
"Can China innovate without freedom?" ..........Starkey hits nail all the way home with that one.
His description of Campbell and Mandelson is superb. I laughed so hard I’m sore.
DS is a great asset to us all. keep up the good work mate :)
So the BBC removed him, because he dared to criticize. Not much has changed since Henry VIII, except that he fortunately still has his head. They should be so ashamed. He's a treasure.
David worked a lot for Channel 4 and not for the BBC
On my bucket list to sit down with David Starkey and speak with him on History.
As an American, I was pretty ignorant of British government. It can be frustrating to read about English history because the authors are from the UK and therefor assume that their audience is from the UK, too. I have learned more about how the British government works than I ever thought I would in the last year or so.
Great observation on Sturgeon: as a Scot -- I know all too painfully, the truth of what David says. And further, sanctimony being the drug of the age -- we are over vulnerable to wokery, and the holy-willies of the SNP - all this due to that deep bone Calvinism we never shook off.
Well said....her wobble headed daily lectures during covid....the word "Sanctimony" has never been more appropriate about this tea total, joy hating woman.
I would like to have "Thatcher" explained.
Wow. This was so good, riveting and enlightening.
This was the finest lecture on English history I've ever heard.
Dr. Starkey's low opinion of the Stewarts was especially timely since I've just finished reading Scott's "Old Mortality."
Thank you!
It is such a pleasure to hear Dr Starkey talk thank you
You are correct David Carrie Johnson is pulling the strings she's in charge.
Im glad you have survived cancelling. As a scot now living in NZ I was appalled by that. I dont always agree with you . But we need people like you . Especially in these days. This new puritanism cant last forever :) I look forward to following your channel :)
I hope you are right. The only way we can be educated is by listening to EVERYONE and allowing the opinions to be exchanged. I hope that the new understandings about how flawed our actions for the last 3 years have been take hold. Too few people were given FAR too much power and they all broke their covenant to act in the best interest of the society. May enough people realize how we were all oppressed and used so that it never happens again.
I could listen to him reading a crisp packet! Wonderful!
Wonderful to see & hear you speak Dr Starkey you always look so smart your such a brilliant & clever man your Mother would be proud off you thank you sir for being you a very honest man love your sense of humour & wisdom l am the woman who gave you the Teddy Bear in Southport theatre Xx
As expected, a wonderful presentation
good to hear you again Dr Starkey
Thank you David, it is wonderful to hear the truth about the British history. Please continue so the children will know history as it was, not as the teachers are teaching the children ....its a total scandal that this is allowed to happen
An hour of Starkey, or an hour of Sturgeon ? I go for the former every time. Respect from East Fife.
King Boris... Reminds me of the cover article by Fraser Nelson in The Spectator last week.
Amazing speaker.
David Starkey. The antithesis of today’s woke culture. Intelligent, astonishingly well educated, outspoken to the point of being abrasive, no wonder he has so many enemies.
'Precisely why he was cancelled!
@@Pwwh0711 He was responding to a Black Lives Matter claim that white people had carried out genocide against black people.
He said “this wasn’t the case as so many damn blacks survived “ an undeniably racist comment
@@deniskearney2368 I'm denying it. Why is it racist?
@@notcrediblesolipsism3851
Because he said “damn blacks” I suppose
And because so many people do not understand irony, or the use of people from history’s language as a way to demonstrate….
Where did Dr Starkey find such a warm, friendly and sympathetic audience?
The general public!... This is what most people are like!
@@ellisbell7718 if you think this lot represent the general public you must be living on another planet!
They're not left-wing Woke Puritans.
@@susannamarker2582 I´m more or less a left-wing Puritan (although not British). But I still listen to David Starkey with interest. I don´t agree with him on everything, but I know an expert when I see one :-)
I find it odd that my country is an ex-Communist, one but there´s more freedom of speech in our universities nowadays than there is in Britain. It´s normal here to listen with respect to lectures of people you don´t agree with; as indeed it used to be, and in many places still probably is, in Britain.
@@martavdz4972 Yes, but Britain has lost confidence in themselves, and are vulnerable. The left-wing Puritans are free to take over, as they have made us hate our past.
Starkey is to the U.K what Victor Hanson is to USA. A National Treasure!
On my list of things to do before I die is a history degree. I don't need to bother now that we have the wonderful David Starkey talks!
David Starkey must be the only historian who makes history read like a modern day soap opera. Utterly compelling.
Wonderful, to be gifted through exhortation with enormous gifts of education.
A wonderful lecture. So polically incorrect, but so true...cheers
Excellent, facts-based comparative history. Proper teaching of history, not the socialist, empathizing nonsense that New Labour has given us.
Truly excellent !
Bravo !!
So good to see you doing this
i watch these videos at night and i find myself thinking about them randomly throughout the next day… i absolutely love this channel and anything DS. not arsed
It's rare that a lecture on political history can make me laugh heartily, but this did. Especially Starkey's comparison of Queen Carrie (of Downing St.) to Anne Boleyn, and his recommendation for a similarly well deserved method of despatch. Bloody marvellous. Encore Sir, encore!
I bet he didn't even prepare for this! Amazing how he can speak off the cuff at such great length. (And no, that's not a subtle jibe!)
V. interesting comment in passing on the effects of William I on the North of England's history, I'd be interested in a lecture on that by Starkers, if it isn't straying too far from his hundred being a late Medievalist. ("King Boris" not for much longer I suspect).