Dr Tristram Hunt MP
Occupation: Historian, Presenter
Dr Tristram Hunt currently lectures on modern British history at Queen Mary College, University of London. He was formerly an associate fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge. He read history at Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Chicago. His published works are The English Civil War: At First Hand (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and a book on Victorian cities, Manufacturing Cities: The Victorian City from Liverpool to Letchworth.
He has worked for the Labour Party on two general election campaigns, as a researcher to the Rt. Hon. Tony Blair M.P., as a special adviser to the Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury, and as a research fellow on governmental reform at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He sits on the board of the Royal Institution Science Media Centre which he helped to found.
Tristram wrote and presented a series on the English Civil War for Open University/BBC2 and made the case for Isaac Newton in the landmark BBC series, Great Britons, he also appeared with Prunella Scales in Queen Victoria: The World’s Most Photographed on BBC2.
Tristram writes regularly for The Guardian, The Observer, and The New Statesman.
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