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Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
Category: History
This is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that fostered Britain's greatest civic renaissance. Tristram Hunt explores the horrors of t ...Show more
Ten Cities That Made an Empire by Tristram Hunt
Category: History
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it. Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's ...Show more
Ten Cities That Made an Empire by Tristram Hunt
Category: History
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised itSince the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's co ...Show more
The Frock-Coated Communist by Tristram Hunt
Category: Fiction
Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a V ...Show more
The Lives of Objects by Tristram Hunt (Editor)
Category: Art
In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell the stories behind ten of their most treasured objects. 'Tipu's Tiger' (an almost life-size wooden semiautomaton mauling a European sold ...Show more
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt
Category: Biography
A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, by the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns and workshops in S ...Show more
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt
Category: Biography
A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns ...Show more
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