Tristram Hunt

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Gender	Male
Age	49
Date of birth	May 31,1974
Zodiac sign	Gemini
Born	Cambridge
	United Kingdom
Spouse	Juliet Hunt
Children	Margot Hunt
	Digby Hunt
Parents	Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton
	Marylla Shephard
Job	Teacher
	Politician
	Author
	Journalist
	Historian
	Presenter
Education	King's College, Cambridge
	The University of Chicago
	Trinity College
	University College School Junior Branch
Books	Past and Present: Thoughts on the English Radical Tradition
	Ten Cities that Made an Empire
	Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World
	The Purple Book
	Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
	Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 Years on
	Building Jerusalem
	The English Civil War At First Hand
Date of Reg.	2019-02-21 22:02:04
Date of Upd.	2023-07-16 22:12:07
ID	442741

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Tristram Hunt Life story

Tristram Julian William Hunt FRHistS 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.

Young V& A museum opening after £13m revamp

Jun 26,2023 7:00 pm

... Director of the V& A Tristram Hunt said: " The V& A believes in the transformative power of creativity, and it s critical we work to support and develop the next creative generation...

David Bowie's 'rich and powerful' archive to be made public in new venue

Feb 22,2023 11:21 pm

... The David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, will provide a " sourcebook for the Bowies of tomorrow" said Dr Tristram Hunt, director of the V& A...

Elgin Marbles: New body aims to return sculptures to Greece

Oct 12,2022 9:50 pm

... With growing calls from some quarters to return items held in British collections to their original countries of origin, some museums, including the V& A, chaired Tristram Hunt, have called for the act to be amended or replaced...

Who is Kwasi Kwarteng? New UK chancellor likes a challenge

Sep 6,2022 6:41 pm

... During his second stint at the university, Tristram Hunt, the former Labour MP and now head of the V& A Museum, joked that then roommate Mr Kwarteng was " quite ungovernable and dishevelled"...

Christian Dior exhibition breaks V&A attendance record

Feb 16,2020 5:53 am

... V& A director Tristram Hunt said the South Kensington institution had been overwhelmed by the phenomenal visitor response ...

David Bowie's 'rich and powerful' archive to be made public in new venue

Feb 16,2020 5:53 am

By Mark SavageBBC Music Correspondent

David Bowie fans will get an unprecedented look into his life, work and legacy after The V& A museum acquired The Rock Star 's archive.

The Collection includes More Than 80,000 letters, lyrics, photos, stage designs, music awards and costumes.

It also features several instruments owned by The musician, including The Stylophone he played on his breakout 1969 single Space Oddity.

The archive will Go On display in 2025 in a newly-created East London venue.

The David Bowie Centre for The Study of Performing Arts , in The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park , will provide a " sourcebook for The Bowies of tomorrow" said Dr Tristram Hunt , director of The V& A.

" It's an amazing gift, " added Kate Bailey, a senior curator, who previously worked on The Museum 's groundbreaking 2013 David Bowie Is. . Exhibition .

" It traces The whole of Bowie's career. There are priceless items from his very early days in The in The '60s, right through to [2013 album] The Next Day and beyond.

" I found it fascinating - The Personal insights, The handwritten lyrics, The dialogue with other creative practitioners in terms of how a song is written or how a song is recorded or how a video is treated.

" All of these things are incredibly rich and powerful. "

Other highlights include Bowie's Ziggy Stardust costumes, designed by Freddie Burretti in 1972, and The Union Jack coat designed by Bowie and Alexander Mcqueen for The 1997 Earthling album cover.

The Collection also features Brian Eno 's EMS synthesizer, used On Bowie 's 1977 albums Low and Heroes; and examples of his " cut-up" technique for lyric writing, which involved literally chopping up existing texts to generate new meanings from The rearranged pieces.

Ms Bailey said The archive had been preserved with " fantastic care" and " meticulous" attention to detail.

" These objects, these documents, had importance to him and you get The Sense That , because he was always Moving On creatively, it was helpful to park and collect and store [everything] in order to move on to The Next character or project. "

The acquisition by The V& A, and The Creation of The Bowie centre, was made possible by The David Bowie Estate and a £10m donation from The Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group .

In a press release, a spokesperson for Bowie's estate said: " With David's life's work becoming part of The UK's national collections, he takes his rightful place amongst many other cultural icons and artistic geniuses.

" The David Bowie Centre for The Study of Performance - and The behind The Scenes access That V& A East Storehouse offers- will mean David's work can be shared with The Public in ways That haven't been possible before. "

Producer and guitarist Nile Rodgers , who collaborated with Bowie on The 1983 album Let's Dance, added: " I believe everyone will agree with me when I say That . . If Only one artist could be in The V& A it should be David Bowie .