David Starkey returns to Chequer Mead by popular demand.  In this talk the UK’s leading constitutional historian, known for his forthright views, discusses his views of the Magna Carta talks about the 13th century agreement that ,imperfect though it was and radically modified in its first ten years, limited for the first time the power of the monarch by stating the basic rights, privileges, and liberties of  leading citizens and clergy.

There are few more stimulating thinkers, and few who understand better the  way the most powerful have thought  throughout our history. David’s assessment of the situation then , and how our constitution stands today exactly 800 years later , will amaze and challenge you.

A Cambridge educated grammar school boy who became a respected LSE lecturer, a uniquely abrasive debater on Radio 4’s Moral Maze,  and the creator and presenter of many very popular historical TV series ...on such subjects as Henry VIII , Elizabeth 1st, the Monarchy, the Churchills, and Music and Monarchy.