Tristram Hunt

Tristram Hunt

Tristram Hunt (born 1974) is a British historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist. He also lectures at Queen Mary, University of London.

Hunt has made many appearances on television. He presented a four-part series on the English Civil War in 2002 and wrote an essay in the "New Statesman" entitled "Britain's Very Own Taliban", comparing Cromwell's Republic to the Islamic fundamentalism dominant in Afghanistan at that time. [ [http://www.newstatesman.com/200112170042 New Statesman - Britain's very own Taliban] ] Hunt presented a programme advocating the theories of Isaac Newton in the BBC's 100 Greatest Britons poll. He also presented a one-hour documentary on the rise of the middle class for Channel 4 last year. He makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 4, having presented broadcasts on such topics as the history of the signature. Hunt is an active New Labour supporter and Trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund and has a column with UK Sunday paper, "The Observer". A Cambridge graduate, Hunt interned at the think tank Demos, was a fellow of the Institute for Public Policy Research and is on the board of the New Local Government Network (2004).

Hunt's main area of expertise is urban history, specifically during the Victorian era, and it is this subject which provided him with his second book, "Building Jerusalem". This book, covering such notable Victorian minds as John Ruskin, Joseph Chamberlain and Thomas Carlyle received many favourable reviews, but some criticism, notably a scathing review in the Times Literary Supplement by J. Mordaunt Crook ('The Future was Bromley', "TLS", 13 August 2004). In 2006, Hunt wrote "Making our Mark" a publication celebrating CPRE's eightieth anniversary. His next literary undertaking is a biography of Karl Marx's friend and literary collaborator Friedrich Engels. He has just completed a BBC series entitled "The Protestant Revolution", examining the influence of Protestantism on British and international attitudes to work and leisure, for broadcast on BBC Four at 9pm on four consecutive Wednesdays from Wednesday 12 September 2007. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/08_august/21/protestant.shtml]

Before undertaking his PhD, Hunt worked for the Labour Party's "attack unit" in Millbank Tower in the 1997 general election and also worked at the Party's headquarters during the following 2001 general election.

Hunt, the son of Lord Hunt of Chesterton, is married with one son and lives in Haringey.

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