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*1996 [[Demos]] <ref> Helena de Bertodano Don't call me Naked Tristram Hunt, the boyish presenter of the BBC's 'Civil War' series, has been dubbed history's answer to Jamie Oliver. But, he says, his presentation skills owe more to Peter Mandelson Sunday Telegraph(LONDON), January 13, 2002, Sunday, Pg. 03</ref> | *1996 [[Demos]] <ref> Helena de Bertodano Don't call me Naked Tristram Hunt, the boyish presenter of the BBC's 'Civil War' series, has been dubbed history's answer to Jamie Oliver. But, he says, his presentation skills owe more to Peter Mandelson Sunday Telegraph(LONDON), January 13, 2002, Sunday, Pg. 03</ref> | ||
Revision as of 18:37, 20 August 2013
Tristram Hunt became the Member of Parliament (Labour Party) for Stoke-on-Trent Central in May 2010. He is an historian, writer and broadcaster, who worked for Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson in a press office and Rapid Rebuttal capacity, as Special Adviser to David Sainsbury and has been linked to a number of pro-market ‘centre-left’ think tanks including Demos, IPPR and the New Local Government Network.
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Education
Hunt initially attended ‘a state primary school, Milton Road in Cambridge’[1] until his ‘family moved to North London’[2] at which point he attended the elite University College School in Hampstead.[3] Hunt gained a First Class degree in history from the University of Cambridge (1995), before serving as an Exchange Fellow a year-long scholarship at the University of Chicago (1995-9).[4]
Affiliations
- 1996 Demos [5]
- 1998-2000 Special Adviser to David Sainsbury as Science minister, 1998- December 2000.
- 2000-2001 Institute for Public Policy Research, ‘associate fellow' December 2000; ‘fellow’ February 2001[6]
- Associate Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge
- Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund
- Trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund
- Trustee of the New Local Government Network from March 2004 - [7]
- Trustee of the Centre for Cities think-tank.
- Trustee of the History of Parliament Trust
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Science Media Centre, Advisory Council 2001-02; member of the Board, 2002-2005
Contact
- Website: tristramhunt.com
- Twitter: @TristramHuntMP
- Email: tristramhunt AT btopenworld.com | tristramhunt AT parliament.uk
- Guardian: Profile
Notes
- ↑ Anna Bawden, Tristram Hunt: 'We've got to become the most interesting party' The Guardian, Monday 17 June 2013 19.15 BST
- ↑ Eleanor Radford Profiles: Tristram Hunt ~ his story, FE Week, May 17, 2013
- ↑ Andrew Pierce It's a bit rich for Tristram Hunt to play the posh card Daily Mail, UPDATED: 16:30, 2 November 2010
- ↑ Tristram Hunt About Tristram, accessed 17 August 2013
- ↑ Helena de Bertodano Don't call me Naked Tristram Hunt, the boyish presenter of the BBC's 'Civil War' series, has been dubbed history's answer to Jamie Oliver. But, he says, his presentation skills owe more to Peter Mandelson Sunday Telegraph(LONDON), January 13, 2002, Sunday, Pg. 03
- ↑ Tristram Hunt, MEDIA: TV MUST ATTRACT THE YOUTH VOTE; WHEN JOHN HUMPHRYS GRILLS A POLITICIAN THE YOUNG TURN OFF IN DROVES, SAYS TRISTRAM HUNT The Independent (London), February 27, 2001, Tuesday, P. 8.
- ↑ NLGN NEW LOCAL GOVERNMENT NETWORK ANNOUNCES NEW CHAIR AND KEY ADDITIONS TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES 18 March 2004, accessed 17 August 2013
