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  Amazon.com: Building Jerusalem: Books: Tristram Hunt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hunt, a historian at the University of London, examines the many antagonistic political and aesthetic movements vying for dominance as the Victorian city took shape.
Hunt relates how a newly prosperous middle class, eager to legitimatize its economic power and distance itself from accusations of philistinism, began "manufacturing a new cultural identity," in which architecture and government reflected social and moral values.
Hunt calls for a restoration of local democracy, noting that in the 1890s, Londoners elected 12,000 of their fellow-citizens to run hospitals, schools and transport; now 36,000 quangocrats decide for us.
www.amazon.com /Building-Jerusalem-Tristram-Hunt/dp/075381983X   (1637 words)

  
  Tristram Hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tristram Hunt (born 1974), is a British historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist.
Hunt's main area of expertise is urban history, specifically during the Victorian era, and it is this subject which provided him with his second book, Building Jerusalem.
Hunt, the son of Lord Hunt of Chesterton, is married and lives in Finsbury Park.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tristram_Hunt   (202 words)

  
 Hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A hunt is an activity during which humans or animals chase targets, such as wild animals, in order to kill them, either for food, money, or as a form of sport.
Howard Hunt (born 1918), White House "plumber" and author of spy novels
Lamar Hunt (born 1932), American sportsman, son of H.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hunt   (327 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Observer review: Building Jerusalem by Tristram Hunt
Hunt, using fiction as well as fact to illustrate his narrative, quotes Oliver Twist's description of the London of the early 19th century: 'A dirtier or more wretched place he had never seen...
Hunt is not a latterday Cobbett sighing for England's Arcadian past.
It is Hunt's romantic conviction that the great edifices of Victorian municipal enterprise - Leeds town hall, St George's hall in Liverpool and the town hall in Manchester - embodied and stimulated the spirit of adventure - commercial, artistic and intellectual - which he so admires.
books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/history/0,,1237414,00.html   (826 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Magazine | What the Victorians can teach us about city life
Hunt celebrates the architects, sewer-constructors and local politicians who transformed Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford and Glasgow into "Venices of the north" in the 19th Century.
Hunt pins some of the blame for the persistent negative image of the Victorian city on "vicarious, popular history interest in children up chimneys, sewage in the streets and all the rest of it."
Hunt notes that some of the great Victorian cities have become shadows of their former selves over the past 50 years.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/3809821.stm   (1095 words)

  
 History News Network
Tristram Hunt: John Edwards's Intellectual Godfather is Disraeli
Tristram Hunt, in the LAT (Aug. 15, 2004):
[Tristram Hunt is the author of "Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City" (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2004) and will be teaching at Arizona State University in the fall.]
hnn.us /roundup/entries/6872.html   (451 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hunt, a university lecturer and government adviser, has written a considerable work, based on years of research, but flawed by its pro-Labour, anti-working class perspective.
Hunt sees people's moves to the suburbs and to garden cities as wilful failures to solve London's problems, and joins Betjeman, Orwell, Williams-Ellis and Priestley in snobbish hatred of the suburbs, despite acknowledging that many people do want to live there.
Hunt calls for a restoration of local democracy, noting that in the 1890s, Londoners elected 12,000 of their fellow-citizens to run hospitals, schools and transport; now 36,000 quangocrats decide for us.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0297607677   (728 words)

  
 Tristram Hunt: A plan to bury democracy | Communities | SocietyGuardian.co.uk
Tristram Hunt: A plan to bury democracy
If political engagement is to revive within the Labour movement and the public, it should not now be arbitrarily withdrawn from where it matters most.
· Tristram Hunt is a lecturer in history at Queen Mary, University of London.
society.guardian.co.uk /communities/comment/0,,2079728,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=9   (686 words)

  
 Hunt, Holman on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hunt ban kills foxes; Slaughter has doubled since last year's legislation, say countryside campaigne...
HUNT, HOLMAN [Hunt, Holman] see Hunt, William Holman.
William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat: Rite of forgiveness/transference of blame.(Critical Essay)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-h1unt-h1ol.asp   (253 words)

  
 National Heritage Memorial Fund
The Prime Minister has today appointed Dr Tristram Hunt and Matthew Saunders Esq MBE as Trustees of the National Heritage Memorial Fund each for a term of three years.
Dr Tristram Hunt is a historian and broadcaster.
Dr Tristram Hunt was Senior Researcher for the Labour Party Election Campaign (1997) and from 1997 to 2001 he was Political Advisor to the Minister for Science, Lord Sainsbury.
www.number-10.gov.uk /output/page7124.asp   (501 words)

  
 Tim Worstall: Tristram Hunt
The rise of pension funds and insurance policies has actually meant that capital is vastly more distributed than it was.
He was also right that the stock market helped to disaggregate production and wealth in such a way as to reduce people's sympathy for the system.
Hunt may be able to take Engles' ideas and abuse them, but that doesn't make Engles bad any more than it diminishes the original when Brown pretends to use Adam Smith.
timworstall.typepad.com /timworstall/2007/01/tristram_hunt.html   (406 words)

  
 Bill Totten's Weblog: The New Chauvinism
To believe this, you need be not just a patriot, but a chauvinist.
Freedland and Hunt and the leader writers of the New Statesman, of course, are nothing of the kind.
Hunt argues that Britishness should be about "values rather than institutions": Britain has "a superb record of political liberalism and intellectual inquiry, giving us a public sphere open to ideas, religions and philosophy from across the world".
billtotten.blogspot.com /2005/08/new-chauvinism.html   (1194 words)

  
 122701 The Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
On BBC2, a Civil War series will begin next month, presented by Tristram Hunt, 27, who promises to bring the gory drama of the battle of Marston Moor, the Irish Rebellion and the execution of Charles I into the nation’s living rooms.
Sex inevitably plays a major role in popular history and Dr Hunt has a ready-made femme fatale in Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. He said: “Her Roman Catholic faith made her an object of suspicion in England and this contributed to the rebellion.”
Dr Hunt is being marketed by the BBC as “the naked historian”.
www.dougrayscottinfocus.com /122701_the_times.htm   (636 words)

  
 MEMPHIS MANIFESTO: News and Discussion : How To Recapture Cities' Civic Pride   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The civic pride and freedoms of Britain's great regional cities have been "brutally gutted" during the past 100 years and power must be given back to them, the Guardian Hay book festival was told on its opening day.
Their 19th century piazzas had been turned into roundabouts, Tristram Hunt said.
Motorways had ploughed through their centres and their ability to help the destinies of their citizens or control their finances had been neutered.
www.memphismanifesto.com /news/archives/000304.php   (645 words)

  
 Eric Hobsbawn
Eric Hobsbawn was interviewed by Tristram Hunt in The Observer in September, 2002.
Tristram Hunt: Martin Amis's new book, Koba The Dread, has impugned the British Left - and you personally - for not condemning Stalin's atrocities.
In your autobiography you vividly bring out the mindset of a believing Communist in the 1940s and 1950s: the party discipline and a reluctance 'to believe the few who told us what they knew' of Soviet Russia.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /HIShobsbawm.htm   (1428 words)

  
 New Statesman - Why Britain is great
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
As I write, highly educated if wholly uncivilised human beings are travelling underground, trying to kill me. But their aim is to murder more than just me, or you.
Browse all articles by Tristram Hunt in the NS Library
www.newstatesman.com /200508010005   (1761 words)

  
 Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Dr Tristram Hunt uses dramatic reconstructions to re-assess the "English" Civil War of the 1640s in this four-part series.
Despite this English schism, Hunt travels north to show that the war actually first ignited in Scotland.
A look at how escalating events across the Irish Sea accelerated war in England as the relationship between Parliament and king collapsed, dividing the country into Roundheads and Cavaliers.
www.tvfactual.co.uk /civil_war.htm   (218 words)

  
 RSA - Read - Author Details
Dr Tristram Hunt currently lectures on modern British history at Queen Mary College, University of London.
He was formerly an associate fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge.
Dr Tristram Hunt, Alain de Botton, Charles Freeman
www.rsa.org.uk /read/speakerCloseUp.asp?speakerID=641   (202 words)

  
 ngin archive
In late November NGIN drew attention to an article in the Independent promoting the Royal Institution's Science Media Centre which is to be launched this month.
According to the article, the co-authors were Blairite Baroness, Susan Greenfield who is the Director of the Royal Institution, and a certain Tristram Hunt.
As Tristram wrote the article I am unable to comment, but I hope that he has got back to you to discuss it.
ngin.tripod.com /091201a.htm   (1636 words)

  
 The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Where science is a dirty word
Even if the Department of Homeland Security starts to let foreign scientists back in, many have to be asking: given such official disdain, is there any point doing the science?
(Tristram Hunt is a visiting professor of history at Arizona State University.)
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www.hindu.com /2005/03/24/stories/2005032408361000.htm   (573 words)

  
 Tristram Hunt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Looking for Victoria (2003) (TV) (historical consultant) (as Dr Tristram Hunt)
Looking for Victoria (2003) (TV) (as Dr Tristram Hunt)....
Discuss this name with other users on IMDb message board for Tristram Hunt
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 Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2004351941   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for The English Civil War at first hand / Tristram Hunt.
The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher.
Tristram Hunt is a 27-year-old Cambridge historian and has just presented a prime-time series on the civil war for BBC2 which had viewing figures of 4 million.
www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/orion051/2004351941.html   (125 words)

  
 Nowhere Land (Brit Blasts US Exurbs, "McMansions")   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
But, my time in Phoenix has shown the United States pursuing a model we desperately need to avoid: depopulating downtowns, ravaged countryside, unsustainable energy consumption, social and racial segmentation and a sprawling exurbia that is retreating unrelentingly into the future.
· Tristram Hunt is a visiting professor at Arizona State University and author of Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
It sounds like Tristram is trying to deflect the usual criticism of that little island north of France.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1349696/posts   (5314 words)

  
 Straw will not defend our citizens Britons are shot by Israel and tried in secret by the US with impunity
But before it gets carried away with a Highgrove-inspired fog of imperial nostalgia, our diplomatic elite would do better to get the basics right: protecting British citizens "against injustice and wrong".
· Tristram Hunt teaches history at Queen Mary College, University of London
This page was last updated on: July 14, 2003.
foi.missouri.edu /jouratrisk/straw.html   (795 words)

  
 Special report: politics past | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics
December 29: The unedifying sight of Edward Heath being 'bundled out' of Downing Street the day after losing the February 1974 general election prompted a Whitehall hunt for a government guest house that could provide a temporary home for ex-prime ministers and visiting dignitaries.
March 19, Tristram Hunt: Adam Smith's writings have been hijacked by the right, but the chancellor is in tune with his more progressive side.
In 1997 he was applauded in - but will Gordon now be cheered out?
politics.guardian.co.uk /politicspast/0,,442870,00.html   (1911 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools | Conscription of the past
As a man with time on his hands, Tim Collins can now bury himself in the great works of history - and discover that chronology and criticism go best hand in hand.
· Tristram Hunt's Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City is now out in paperback
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education.guardian.co.uk /schools/comment/story/0,9828,1504070,00.html   (1247 words)

  
 History Today: Early renaissance man: Tristram Hunt finds inspiration for his study of civic consciousness in Tuscany ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
History Today: Early renaissance man: Tristram Hunt finds inspiration for his study of civic consciousness in Tuscany and the lecture halls of Cambridge.(Point of Departure)@ HighBeam Research
Early renaissance man: Tristram Hunt finds inspiration for his study of civic consciousness in Tuscany and the lecture halls of Cambridge.(Point of Departure)
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highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:117607042&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (237 words)

  
 Arab News
Just as worrying is the suggestion that, since Havelock and Napier undertook imperial activities now widely demurred, then their statues should be removed and histories forgotten.
And with even the Countryside Alliance invoking Gandhi’s name in their plans to disobey hunting legislation, the suggestion should have universal appeal.
And, who knows, even Ken Livingstone might have heard of Mahatma Gandhi.
arabnews.com /services/print/print.asp?artid=36086&...+Trafalgar+Square   (620 words)

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