David Starkey
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David Robert Starkey is a conservative English historian, radio and television presenter. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before reading history at Cambridge on a s
Starkey when a lecturer at LSE in the early 1980s
Starkey is well known for his historical analyses of Henry VIII and his Court
Benjamin Disraeli by Cornelius Jabez Hughes, 1878.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creat
David Starkey
…Callaghan administration for "blow[ing] the nation's finances". He is a supporter of one-nation conservatism and believes that Victorian Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli was a great symbol of this. He has written that Disraeli was "exotic, slippery and had a gift for language and phrase-making", drawing similarities…
Disraeli in 1878
Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli by Francis Grant. Disraeli as a young man—a retrospective portrayal painted in 1852
Friends and allies of Disraeli in the 1830s: clockwise from top left—Croker, Lyndhurst, Henrietta Sykes and Lady Londonderry
Mary Anne Lewis c. 1820–30