Tristram Hunt
Articles by Tristram Hunt
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Politics
Merchant adventurer
- 24 January 2008
- 9 comments
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
Politics
Nothing left for Protestants
- 06 September 2007
- 3 comments
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
Books
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
- 27 February 2006
A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846 Boyd Hilton Oxford University Press, 784pp, £30 ISBN 0198228309
Books
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
- 15 August 2005
Victorian London: the life of a city (1840-1870) Liza Picard Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 368pp, £20 ISBN 0297847333
Politics
Why Britain is great
- 01 August 2005
- 4 comments
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
Politics
A revolutionary who won over Victorian liberals
- 20 September 2004
Asquith, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill all backed proposals to end the landlords' monopoly. So, Mr Blair, what about you?
World Affairs
The rape of the wilderness
- 31 May 2004
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
Books
Parlour games
- 26 April 2004
What Might Have Been: imaginary history from 12 leading historians Edited by Andrew Roberts Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 224pp, £12.99 ISBN 0297848771
Economy
How the English became obsessed with property
- 02 February 2004
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
Society
Kick the advertisements out
- 16 December 2002
Our city halls and railway stations are being defaced by commerce and lack all sense of civic space. New York offers a better example
