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...Philip, whom the historian David Starkey nicknamed “HRH Victor Meldrew”, after the elderly and famously grumpy UK television character, came to be seen as a national treasure....
...Kasmin, Tate director Nicholas Serota and cultural historian Fiona MacCarthy will be in conversation at Tate Britain on December 9 Photographs: Hannah Starkey; Anthony Caro / Tate; Richard Smith / Tate;...
...But with the work of David Starkey, for example, focusing once more on grand narratives and giant individuals such as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, traditional historical novels are back on trend....
...Without Scott, Victor Hugo would never have written Les Misérables (1862); Alessandro Manzoni I Promessi Sposi (1827); Tolstoy War and Peace....
...Hawkeye M*A*S*H Pierce was a reliably anarchic, randy surgeon; Victor One Foot Meldrew a reliably despairing grump (both are gifted comics)....
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