1. Tristram Hunt served as the Labour Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2010 to 2017, and Shadow Secretary of State for Education from 2013 to 2015.
39 Facts About Tristram Hunt
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Tristram Hunt has written several books, presented history programmes on television, and was a regular writer for The Guardian and The Observer.
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Tristram Hunt is the great-grandson of Maxwell Garnett, barrister and educationist, and great-great-grandson of William Garnett, an academic and professor in physics.
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Tristram Hunt was educated at University College School, an all-boys' private school in Hampstead, north London.
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Tristram Hunt took a First in History at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1995.
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Tristram Hunt 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.
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Tristram Hunt undertook postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge and completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2000.
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Tristram Hunt was a Fellow of the Institute for Public Policy Research and sits on the board of the New Local Government Network.
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Tristram Hunt has made many appearances on television, presenting programmes on the English Civil War, the theories of Sir Isaac Newton, and the rise of the middle class, and makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 4, having presented broadcasts on such topics as the history of the signature.
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Tristram Hunt's specialism is urban history, specifically during the Victorian era, and it is this subject which provided him with his second book, Building Jerusalem.
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Tristram Hunt wrote Making our Mark, a publication celebrating of the eightieth anniversary of CPRE, The Countryside Charity, in 2006.
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Tristram Hunt then 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.
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In 2007 Tristram Hunt was a judge for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the winner being Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
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Tristram Hunt wrote a biography of Friedrich Engels, The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, which was published in May 2009 by Penguin Books.
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Tristram Hunt was a lecturer in modern British History at Queen Mary University of London.
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On 18 May 2013, Dr Tristram Hunt delivered his lecture 'Aristocracy and Industry: the Sutherlands in Staffordshire' at The Marc Fitch Lectures.
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Tristram Hunt worked for the Labour Party at Millbank Tower during the 1997 general election; he worked at the party headquarters during the following 2001 general election.
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Tristram Hunt twice submitted his name unsuccessfully for selection as a Labour parliamentary candidate: Liverpool West Derby, where Stephen Twigg was selected, and Leyton and Wanstead, where John Cryer was selected.
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Tristram Hunt was selected to contest the constituency of Stoke-on-Trent Central on 1 April 2010, succeeding Labour's outgoing MP, Mark Fisher.
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Tristram Hunt was appointed a Shadow Education Minister in April 2013, replacing Karen Buck who advanced as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ed Miliband.
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On 7 October 2013, Tristram Hunt was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet, replacing Stephen Twigg as Shadow Secretary of State for Education.
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In February 2014, Tristram Hunt crossed an authorised University and College Union picket line at Queen Mary University of London to teach his students about "Marx, Engels and the Making of Marxism", defending himself on the grounds that although he was not a member of the union, he supported the right to strike and picket by those who had been ballotted.
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Tristram Hunt was strongly criticised by West Bromwich East MP Tom Watson, who described Hunt's behaviour as "preposterous".
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Tristram Hunt was re-elected in May 2015 with a majority of 5,179.
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Tristram Hunt ran a hapless bid for the leadership of the Labour party but dropped out after less than a week after he was nowhere near gathering the 35 nominations from MPs he needed to stand.
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On 12 September 2015, it became known he was leaving the shadow cabinet following Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader because of their "substantial political differences", as Tristram Hunt told the Press Association.
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Tristram Hunt formally resigned, taking the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, on 23 January 2017.
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Tristram Hunt was formerly a trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund and has a column with the British Sunday paper The Observer.
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Tristram Hunt wrote an article in the New Statesman comparing Cromwell's Republic to the Islamic fundamentalism dominant in Afghanistan at that time.
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Tristram Hunt instead believed that the city's reputation as a quality pottery maker should be exploited.
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Tristram Hunt said he could better serve his constituency were he to become a Government Minister.
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Tristram Hunt was accused in February 2015 of implying in a BBC Question Time discussion on teachers without qualifications that nuns do not make good teachers.
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Tristram Hunt's comments were criticised by Conservative MPs and by the Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson.
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Tristram Hunt stated that he did not mean to cause offence to nuns.
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Tristram Hunt has been a member of Labour Friends of Israel.
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Union representatives appealed the decision in a meeting with Tristram Hunt, who rejected their request to have the items returned to the museum.
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Tristram Hunt has been vocal in his support of the Sackler family, the American billionaire family linked to the opioid crisis.
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Tristram Hunt is married to Juliet Thornback with whom he has one son and two daughters; they live in London.
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Tristram Hunt is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.