Dr David Starkey, expert on the constitution and leading historian of the monarchy, lectures on events have or have not changed the course of history: That Was the Year that Was: 1605, The Gunpowder Plot.

The UK's most outspoken academic, Dr David Starkey is a leading

constitutional and monarchy expert. His documentaries on the life of

Henry VIII and Elizabeth I both achieved audiences of 3.5 million. Dr

Starkey lectured in international history at the London School of

Economics and is now a Bye-Fellow at Fitzwilliam College where his

research interests have developed to include a broad spectrum of

cultural, social and political history. He has written and edited

several books, including The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and

Politics, The English Court from the Wars of the Roses

to the Civil War and Elizabeth: Apprenticeship.