Tristram Hunt
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London at Aalto University School of Business
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Aalto University School of Business
Dr Tristram Hunt became Director of the V&A in February 2017. Formerly the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central, he served as the Labour Party’s Shadow Secretary of State for Education.
He has a First Class degree in history from Trinity College, Cambridge (1995), and served as an Exchange Fellow at the University of Chicago (1996). Tristram has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, on ‘Civic Thought in Britain, 1820-1860’ (2000).
In 1997, he became a Special Adviser to Science Minister Lord Sainsbury (1997-2000), Associate Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Between 2001-2010, Tristram combined his post as Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London, with work as a history broadcaster, presenting a range of radio and television programmes for the BBC and Channel 4. He is the author of The English Civil War: At First Hand (2002), Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City (2004), the award-winning biography, The Frock-coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (2009), and most recently Ten Cities That Made an Empire (2014).
He has lectured on British and international culture at the Centre for European Studies, University of California Berkeley; the Centre for European Studies, Harvard; Princeton University and the National University of Singapore.
Tristram has served as a Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund, and the History of Parliament Trust. He played a key role in helping to save the Wedgwood Collection from dispersal and is President of the British Ceramics Biennial. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Videos
Tristram Hunt on Josiah Wedgwood, the radical potter | A Drink with the Idler
The Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series - Dr Tristram Hunt
Mishcon Academy: Digital Session – In conversation with Dr Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A
V&A: Ingenuity and Imagination | Lecture by Dr. Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A, London
City Horizons: Tristram Hunt MP on the Urban Century
Leaders in SHAPE: Tristram Hunt
LAPADA Leaders Webinar Episode #1 with V&A Director Tristram Hunt
In Conversation with Tristram Hunt (2019)
Paul Mellon Lecture | Ruskin and the Idea of the Museum
The Antcliffe Lecture with Tristram Hunt MP
The Lure of Objects - Edmund de Waal and Tristram Hunt
MEI March 2016 Being a Public Historian, Tristram Hunt MP
Tristram Hunt MP asks: Who Should Have the Power to Create the School Curriculum?
Tristram Hunt, Director, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Edinburgh Culture Summit 2020.
What Are Museums for in the 21st Century? - with Tristram Hunt
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