{"id":1416,"date":"2020-10-28T10:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:36:40","slug":"roll-of-dishonour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/10\/28\/roll-of-dishonour\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of (Dis)Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, vale Dr David Starkey. Barely a week after subtext<\/cite> 194 hit virtual newsstands, the not-so-good doctor was expounding his take on the history of slavery – a topic on which, as a monarchical historian with an emphasis on the Tudor period, he was no doubt the most pre-eminent expert that the YouTube show Reasoned<\/cite> could find. Cue an angry response, and hurried efforts to disown the man once called the rudest man in Britain<\/q> by no less a renowned bastion of civility than the Daily Mail<\/cite>.<\/p>\n

A little under a month later, on 24 July, our own institution announced in a press release that it had revoked Dr Starkey’s 2004 honorary degree. Many will be happy, but we here in the subtext<\/cite> warehouse remain sticklers for proper process. Surely the final decision on revoking a degree should have been taken by the full Senate, not a hurriedly-convened huddle of senior managers?<\/p>\n

The press release states that Dr Starkey could no longer be regarded as an appropriate role model for current and future students of Lancaster<\/q>. This is curious, given that the university roll of honour continues to list one Sir Cyril Smith MBE DL<\/q>, awarded an LLD (Honoris Causa) in 1993, following seven years’ service as our Deputy Pro-Chancellor between 1978 and 1985. Could this be the same Cyril Smith who, after his death, was found to have been a prolific abuser of children?<\/p>\n

The complete list is available here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/about-us\/ourpeople\/honorary-degrees\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, vale Dr David Starkey. Barely a week after subtext 194 hit virtual newsstands, the not-so-good doctor was expounding his take on the history of slavery – a topic on which, as a monarchical historian with an emphasis on the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[604,603,605,601,146],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cyril-smith","tag-david-starkey","tag-honorary-graduates","tag-issue-195","tag-senate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-mQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1468,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/02\/19\/letters-31\/","url_meta":{"origin":1416,"position":0},"title":"Letters","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 19 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, Inspired by your piece on David Starkey's prompt removal from Lancaster's Honorary Degree list, I had a look at some of the other members. While I only used Google and Wikipedia, there seem to be at least two figures of note. One faces historical child sex abuse allegations\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "letters"","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1504,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/11\/11\/letters-32\/","url_meta":{"origin":1416,"position":1},"title":"Letters","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"November 11 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, In response to the letter at the end of the recent subtext, I googled the Lancaster list. Many of the more recent names I had never heard of. It would be helpful if they put 'Dead' by the name of those who had died. Who has currently held\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "letters"","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1521,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/11\/11\/1521\/","url_meta":{"origin":1416,"position":2},"title":"Roll of (Dis)honour – Update","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"November 11 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"In subtext 196's letters page, referring to the previous issue's article on Lancaster's honorary graduates, our correspondent Sam Dillane wrote that, as well as Sir Cyril Smith (LLD, honoris causa, 1993), there were two other recipients of honorary degrees that the University might, on reflection, regret awarding. 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