Tristram Hunt
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
- Demos
- Associate Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge
- Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research
- Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund
- Trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund
- Trustee of the New Local Government Network from March 2004 - [5]
- Trustee of the Centre for Cities think-tank.
- Trustee of the History of Parliament Trust
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Science Media Centre, 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
- ↑ NLGN NEW LOCAL GOVERNMENT NETWORK ANNOUNCES NEW CHAIR AND KEY ADDITIONS TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES 18 March 2004, accessed 17 August 2013
