Dr David Starkey

With over-mighty father confessors, concealed deaths and lethal faction fights over the still-warm corpse, the Tudors died as excitingly as they lived. This lecture uncovers the astonishingly dramatic story.

The UK’s leading constitutional historian, known for his forthright views, talks about the period he describes as “the most glorious soap opera, with the whole future of countries turning on what these huge personalities felt like when they got out of bed in the morning”.

There are few more stimulating thinkers, and few who understand better the way the most powerful have thought throughout our history.