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Merchant adventurer

Tristram Hunt — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

As he toured China and India, touting Britain as the ultimate capitalist destination, Gordon Brown dispensed with ethical values and returned to mercantile Elizabethan times

Nothing left for Protestants

Tristram Hunt — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT

In his earnestness and abstemiousness, the new Prime Minister is drawing on roots deep in the Labour Party. But, as Tristram Hunt explains, few are likely to follow Gordon Brown's example

The road to democracy. The English in the 18th century were not forelock-tugging, Church-and-King types but an adventurous and eclectic people eager to embrace scientific progress and political change. Tristram Hunt on the foundations of the first modern nation

Tristram Hunt — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT

A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846 Boyd Hilton Oxford University Press, 784pp, �30 ISBN 0198228309

Capital visions. For Thomas De Quincey it was a "labyrinth"; William Cobbett called it "the great wen". Throughout history, Londoners have debated the meaning of their city. Tristram Hunt gets to grips with its seamier side

Tristram Hunt — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:00:00 GMT

Victorian London: the life of a city (1840-1870) Liza Picard Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 368pp, �20 ISBN 0297847333

Why Britain is great

Tristram Hunt — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:00:00 GMT

We're called upon to stand firm and defend our core values. But what are those values? In the 21st century, what defines us, what makes Britain great for us? This is often seen as right-wing, jingoist territory, but as the historian Tristram Hunt makes clear, the left too is proud to be British, and this is the moment to show it

A revolutionary who won over Victorian liberals

Tristram Hunt — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:00:00 GMT

Asquith, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill all backed proposals to end the landlords' monopoly. So, Mr Blair, what about you?

The rape of the wilderness

Tristram Hunt — Mon, 31 May 2004 12:00:00 GMT

If Europe venerated old cathedrals and Roman ruins, America's great monuments were its mountains and forests. But Bush follows another strain in the US tradition which sees nature as a resource to be exploited

Parlour games

Tristram Hunt — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:00:00 GMT

What Might Have Been: imaginary history from 12 leading historians Edited by Andrew Roberts Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 224pp, �12.99 ISBN 0297848771

How the English became obsessed with property

Tristram Hunt — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:00:00 GMT

The sense of individualism and fear of revolution gave rise to the cult of the home. Only now do we see the loss in civic spirit and green spaces

Kick the advertisements out

Tristram Hunt — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:00:00 GMT

Our city halls and railway stations are being defaced by commerce and lack all sense of civic space. New York offers a better example