Ideas and Inventions - a New Approach to Industrial Heritage
28 April 2010
Podcast
The lecture commemorates the life and work of Phillip Whitehead MEP who died in December 2005. Phillip was strongly committed to, and involved in the work of both the University of Derby and the Arkwright Society.
Dr Tristram Hunt is a journalist, broadcaster, academic historian and Fellow of The Royal Historical Society.
Dr Hunt read History at Trinity College,Cambridge before embarking on a year's postgraduate fellowship at the University of Chicago.He returned to Cambridge to complete his PhD studies on Victorian Civic Pride.He has been Associate Fellow of the Centre for History and Economics at King's College Cambridge and Fellow of the Institute of Public Policy Research.
Dr 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 Classand has made regular broadcasts for BBC Radio 4.He writes political and cultural commentary for The Guardian,The Times and the London Review of Books and has a regular column in The Observer.
Dr Hunt is presently Lecturer in History at Queen Mary,University of London.His main area of academic interest is Urban History,most particularly of the Victorian period.His publications include Building Jerusalem:The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City (2004) and The Frock-Coated Communist:The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (2009).
Dr Hunt worked at Labour Party headquarters during the general elections of 1997 and 2001 and during the 2005 general election supported Oona King's campaign in Bethnall Green.
Dr Hunt is a trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
