Tristram Hunt FRHistS

Tristram is Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a British historian, and broadcast journalist. Hunt is a former Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2010 to 2017 and was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Education in 2013. Tristram is a lecturer in modern British History at Queen Mary University of London, has written several books, presented history programmes on television, and is a regular writer for The Guardian and The Observer. His specialism is urban history, specifically during the Victorian era, and it is this subject which provided him with his second book, Building Jerusalem, covering such notable Victorian minds as John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, and (of course) Joseph Chamberlain.