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Starkey is particularly good at explaining the shifting tone of monarchical power.
Crown & Country by David Starkey - review Charles Spencer 2010
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A hard-nosed fiftysomething entrepreneur with watery hazel eyes and a voice that could cut through lead, Starkey is fond of grand pronouncements like “The age of service is upon us.”
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A hard-nosed fiftysomething entrepreneur with watery hazel eyes and a voice that could cut through lead, Starkey is fond of grand pronouncements like “The age of service is upon us.”
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When offering his terms Starkey had talked in that bland way characteristic of him with strangers.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880
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They asked the BBC to stop referring to Starkey as a "historian" on anything but his specialist subject, the Tudors, claiming that he is "ill-fitted" to hold forth on other topics.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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U. S Border Patrol agents on Thursday stopped the Canadian man in Houlton after Olmstead's car was spotted crossing the border at a location known as Starkey's Corner instead of at a designated port of entry, according to court documents.
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Locally, organizations such as Starkey are feeling the pinch from reductions in state aid.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
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Paul 'Starkey' Geissinger goes against the grain of American dance producers by cribbing from the last decade of British invention.
Drowned In Sound // Feed Noel Gardner 2010
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Admitting that friends agreed his greatest error was mentioning the politician Enoch Powell, whose 1968 rivers of blood speech attacked immigration, Starkey added that part of the legacy of the reaction to Powell had been "an enforced silence on the matter of race".
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David Starkey writes that the black educationalists Tony Sewell and Katherine Birbalsingh defended the substance of his comments.
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