Tristram Hunt
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The Honourable Tristram Hunt FRHistS |
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Education | |
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In office 7 October 2013 – 12 September 2015 |
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| Leader |
Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Stephen Twigg |
| Succeeded by | Lucy Powell |
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Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central |
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In office 6 May 2010 – 23 January 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Mark Fisher |
| Succeeded by | Gareth Snell |
| Personal details | |
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Tristram Julian William Hunt 31 May 1974 Cambridge, England, UK |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Juliet Thornback |
| Alma mater |
Trinity College, Cambridge King's College, Cambridge |
| Website | Official website |
Tristram Julian William Hunt FRHistS (born 31 May 1974) is a British historian, broadcast journalist and former Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2010 to 2017. In January 2017 he announced he would leave the House of Commons in order to take up the post of Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Hunt is a lecturer in modern British History at Queen Mary University of London. He has written several books and presented history programmes on television. He is a regular writer for The Guardian and The Observer.
Hunt was born in Cambridge, the son of Julian, Baron Hunt of Chesterton, a meteorologist and leader of the Labour Party group on Cambridge City Council in 1972–73, who was created a Life Peer on the recommendation of Tony Blair in 2000. He was educated at University College School, an independent school in London, where he achieved two As (History and Latin) and a B (English Literature) at A-Level. He gained a First in History at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1995.
He later attended the University of Chicago, and was for a time an Associate Fellow of the Centre for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge. He undertook postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2000. His thesis was titled Civic thought in Britain, c.1820–c.1860. While at Cambridge he was a member of the Footlights, where he was a contemporary of David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
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