"Actor: David Starkey"

• Elizabeth | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  David Starkey's Elizabeth

• David Starkey's Monarchy | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £7.30   |  Saving you £12.69 (173.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Monarchy is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English monarchy has meant in terms of the expressions of the individual the Mother of Parliaments Magna Carta the laws of England and the land of England. Dr. David Starkey the eminent historian and presenter brings to life powerful individuals with colourful characters using his unique and engaging gift as a communicator. The importance of the rich heritage of the Anglo-Saxon Kings is underlined and among the kings most heavily featured are: Alfred The Great Canute Edward The Confessor Wiliam The Conqueror Henry II Richard Lionheart Henry III and Henry VI. This is a double disc which includes the following episodes:- A NATION STATE AENGLA LAND CONQUEST DYNASTY A UNITED KINGDOM DEATH OF A DYNASTY

• David Starkey's Music and Monarchy | DVD | (12/08/2013) from £18.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Presented by renowned historian David Starkey this epic new BBC series reveals how British Kings and Queens shaped the story of the nation's music: as patrons and tastemakers and even as composers and performers. It uncovers the role of the crown in the careers of our greatest composers - from Purcell and Handel to Parry and Elgar; and features exclusive performances of the nation's favourite music in the historic locations where the monarchy first enjoyed it - from Westminster Abbey and King's College Cambridge to Buckingham Palace. This is the music of ceremony pageantry and power; music composed for coronations and jubilees thanksgiving and political expediency. Special Features: Land of Hope and Glory Additional Musical Performances Extended Music David Starkey Biography Subtitles

• David Starkey's The Six Wives Of Henry VIII - The Complete Series | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £6.48   |  Saving you £13.51 (208.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Divorced beheaded died divorced beheaded survived. Six lives summed up in a school rhyme. The women who married Henry VIII have become defined not by the way they lived but by the way their lives ended. They are seen as victims of a bloated tyrant deserving pity but not respect. However have we under-estimated them and are historians right to have merely portrayed them as bit-part players in Henry's story? In this DVD Dr David Starkey reveals them to be vibrant powerful individuals who showed great dignity when faced with exile from the King's favour or even the executioner's axe in the Tower Of London. The series focuses on the stories of the women themselves revealing in intimate detail their experiences of sex childbirth and the glamorous dangerous life at court including the deadly intrigues that dethroned them.

• David Starkey's The Churchills | DVD | (12/06/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Complete 3-part Channel series on DVD, presented by David Starkey. The extraordinary story of how Winston's ancestor helped him become Britain's greatest ever Prime Minister. In an original and highly unusual major series, popular historian Dr. David Starkey tells the story of the two greatest war leaders in British history, both of whom were called Churchill. Everyone knows Winston Churchill led Britain and her Allies in their struggle against Hitler; less well known is John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, who led Britain and her Allies against an earlier would-be dictator of Europe, the Sun King, Louis XIV of France. John Churchill was Winston's ancestor, but he was more than that: he was his inspiration and subject. For Winston was a writer and historian before he was Prime Minister, and perhaps his greatest work is his massive, million-word biography of John Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938. As Starkey argues, it was the ten years he spent working on Marlborough that turned Winston from a politician into a statesman-prophet, and prepared him for the immense task of leading the nation against Nazi Germany. The book, which was serialised in The Sunday Times, changed the way Winston was seen by the public and politicians; he became respected as the only leading politician who truly knew war. Marlborough is a work of history that changed history, a book about a great war leader which helped to make an even greater leader in a bigger, bloodier war. This absorbing series sheds new light on two great Britons and encourages us to view history as a valuable guide to the future.

• The David Starkey Collection | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The David Starkey Collection (8 Discs)

• Monarchy - Series 2 | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (32.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dr. David Starkey continues his epic journey through the history of the British monarchy.

• Monarchy - Series 3 | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dr. David Starkey continues his epic journey through the history of the British monarchy.

• Six Wives Of Henry VIII | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Six lives summed up in a school rhyme. The women who married Henry VIII have become defined not by the way they lived but by the way their lives ended. They are seen as victims of a bloated tyrant, deserving pity, but not respect. However, have we under-estimated them and are historians right to have merely portrayed them as bit-part players in Henry's story? In this DVD Dr David Starkey reveals them to be vibrant, powerful individuals ...

• Elizabeth I | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Eminent historian David Starkey chronicles the extraordinary story of England's greatest Queen; Elizabeth I in this magnificent DVD which features the complete four part Channel 4 Television series. Packed with dramatic reconstructions beautiful costumes and historic locations we follow the remarkable life story of a woman who reigned for over 40 years! Elizabeth's childhood and adolescence was fraught with dangers including a sexually abusive father a sister who wanted her dead and a father who had her mother killed. The survival instincts she developed in hre early years would become invaluable later when she succeeded to the throne. As Queen Elizabeth had to prove that a woman was capable of ruling the warring factions in her court. The self styled Virgin founded a national church and warded off the Spanish Armada.

• The Genius of British Art | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  British Art has a colourful and unique history. This series takes a refreshing look at the genius of British art through the eyes of contemporary arts commentators. The presenters - including David Starkey Gus Casely Hayford Roy Strong Howard Jacobson Jon Snow and Janet Street-Porter - bring their individual expertise to bear on key areas of British painting through the ages. Tackling monarchy class landscape sex war and modern art this series adds a whole new level of understanding to the history of art.

• The History Of Bugatti | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  There is no other car make that has created the mystique the Ettore Bugatti has with his race winning roadsters and his grand luxury autos. He built the world's rarest and most expensive car and with the Veyron he also has the world's fastest road-legal production vehicle on four wheels.

• Monarchy - Series 1 | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Monarchy is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English monarchy has meant in terms of the expressions of the individual the Mother of Parliaments Magna Carta the laws of England and the land of England. Dr. David Starkey the eminent historian and presenter brings to life powerful individuals with colourful characters using his unique and engaging gift as a communicator. The importance of the rich heri