David Starkey – The Human Progress Podcast Ep. 5
Premiered June 18, 2021
David Starkey is Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and the author of many books including Elizabeth’; Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII’ and Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors’. He is a winner of the WH Smith Prize and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Services to History presented by Britain’s Historical Association. He is a well-known TV and radio personality. He was made a CBE in 2007.
Marian L. Tupy is the editor of HumanProgress.org, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, and coauthor of The Simon Project. He specializes in globalization and global well‐being and politics and economics of Europe and Southern Africa.
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