Podcasts about Tristram Hunt

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss eighteenth century 'vase-mania'. In the second half of the century, inspired by archaeological discoveries, the Grand Tour and the founding of the British Museum, parts of the British public developed a huge enthusiasm for vases modelled on the ancient versions recently dug up in Greece. This enthusiasm amounted to a kind of ‘vase-mania'. Initially acquired by the aristocracy, Josiah Wedgwood made these vases commercially available to an emerging aspiring middle class eager to display a piece of the Classical past in their drawing rooms. In the midst of a rapidly changing Britain, these vases came to symbolise the birth of European Civilisation, the epitome of good taste and the timelessness that would later be celebrated by John Keats in his Ode on a Grecian Urn.WithJenny Uglow Writer and Biographer Rosemary Sweet Professor of Urban History at the University of LeicesterAndCaroline McCaffrey-Howarth Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of EdinburghProducer: Eliane GlaserReading list:Viccy Coltman, Fabricating the Antique: Neoclassicism in Britain 1760–1800 (University of Chicago Press, 2006)David Constantine, Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton (Phoenix, 2002)Tristram Hunt, The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain (Allen Lane, 2021)Ian Jenkins and Kim Sloan (eds), Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his Collection (British Museum Press, 1996)Berg Maxine, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2005)Iris Moon, Melancholy Wedgwood (MIT Press, 2024)Rosemary Sweet, Grand Tour: The British in Italy, c.1690–1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2012)Jenny Uglow, The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future (Faber and Faber, 2003)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio production

Who does art belong to? Where should it live? And how can—or should—it be shared with the world? These are some of the questions at the heart of this week's debate. Recently, museums like the Smithsonian in the US and the Horniman Museum and Gardens in the UK have made headlines by returning stolen and disputed artifacts to Nigeria, the country they were taken from centuries ago. Should more museums be doing this? And if so, what should that repatriation look like? Chidi Nwaubani, founder of digital art repatriation site Looty, says much of the damage is done and that we should focus on decolonizing our future. He proposes using technology like NFTs to digitally loot the stolen artwork and restore ownership. Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK, debates that artifacts in museums are valuable tools of education and cultural diffusion. Rather than returning all disputed artifacts, he says that we should find a more equitable way to house art in museums in both the global north and global south. Sofia Carreira-Wham, a curator and art advisor, says we must look beyond the museum walls and find meaningful ways to restore wider cultural benefits to the people and communities whose art has been taken from them. Listen to the Doha Debates Podcast as these guests dissect questions about ownership, reparations, colonial legacy, looting and who has the right to care for the world's treasures. Doha Debates Podcast is a production of Doha Debates and FP Studios. This episode is hosted by Afia Pokua. Thoughts on this conversation? Let us know! Follow us everywhere @DohaDebates and join the post-episode discussion in our YouTube comments.

Tristram Hunt revisits the monuments controversy. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/monumental-lies-robert-bevan-everyday-like-of-memorials-andrew-shanken-on-the-street-edwin-heathcote-book-review-tristram-hunt/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How does an institution in the business of preserving the past prepare itself for the interests and sensibilities of the future? Where do museums fit in the national psyche?  In our latest episode of Worldview, host Adam Boulton is joined by director of the V&A Tristram Hunt, Professor Armand D'Angour and Dr. Tiffany Jenkins to discuss what the future might hold for museums.  Image: Renaissance and Medieval sculptures at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Credit: Bjanka Kadic / Alamy Stock Photo.

How does an institution in the business of preserving the past prepare itself for the interests and sensibilities of the future? Where do museums fit in the national psyche? In our latest episode of Worldview, host Adam Boulton is joined by director of the V&A Tristram Hunt, Professor Armand D'Angour and Dr. Tiffany Jenkins to discuss what the future might hold for museums. Image: Renaissance and Medieval sculptures at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Credit: Bjanka Kadic / Alamy Stock Photo.

Break Out Culture is back, and we kick off the autumn season by talking about one of the most important issues of our time – creativity, or the lack of it, in our education system. Tristram Hunt has been director of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2017 and is a historian, broadcaster and journalist with several books under his belt, as well as having served as a Labour MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He's now a mission to ensure that the V & A champions design and creativity for everyone, believing that creative and design skills amongst children and young people are drastically diminishing. With his roles in education and politics as well as at the V&A, no-one's better placed to lead this important national debate. So, tune in to learn about how the V & A is redressing the balance. There's a a specially commissioned film ‘Creativity: It's What Makes Us'and three new sites, Young V&A, opening in Bethnal Green next year, V&A East Storehouse and V&A East Museum. Plus he tells us about the forthcoming exhibitions from Hallyu! The Korean Wave to Chanel, set to be next year's blockbuster.

If you're a social media user you may well be familiar with the concept of vabbing – vaginal dabbing – where you use vaginal fluid as a perfume behind the ears and neck. Proponents claim it acts as an aphrodisiac to would-be lovers by spreading pheromones. Emma Barnett talks to sex expert Tracey Cox and the evolutionary biologist Dr Tristram Hunt. Have you tried it? Does it work? And is it sanitary? Adam Downs is one of 15 people with learning disabilities who is in a high security hospital. He is currently at Rampton Secure Hospital with serial killers, murderers and paedophiles even though he has never been convicted of an offence. Ex-patients include killers Charles Bronson, Ian Huntley and Stephen Griffiths. His mother Alison Rodgers and Dan Scorer from the learning disability charity Mencap talk to us about their campaign for him to be cared for in the community. They say at least 2000 people with learning disabilities and or autism are currently being detained in inpatient hospital units in England and the Government is not reaching the targets they set. It's almost 25 years since Diana Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash in Paris. She once famously said “being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be” so what is the life of a princess in the modern royal family and how are our perceptions of that role influences by fiction and culture. Emma Barnett talks to Anita Anand the presenter of the Radio 4 series “Princess” which looks at famous historical and fictional princesses and also to writer and journalist Ros Coward who's co-authored a new book “Diana: Remembering the Princess” Award winning musician Sarah Class who has composed and produced the music for the series ‘BBC Africa' narrated by Sir David Attenborough, plays live in the studio ahead of her appearance at the Earth Prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 27th August, as part of the BBC Proms series. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson

The King of Belgium this month handed back a Congolese mask, one of about 84,000 artefacts taken during the colonial-era which the country has agreed to return. In 2018 a report commissioned by the French government recommended the return of thousands of African artworks taken from the continent during colonial rule. This week the director of the V&A museum in London, Tristram Hunt, told The Real Story that he'd like to see a review of decades-old UK laws which prohibit historical pieces being returned to their countries of origin. The clamour for the return of objects which may have been taken, stolen or bought during the colonial era is growing louder. The people and communities who want them back say it's about preserving their cultural identities. So, is it time for some of the planet's biggest and most visited museums to repatriate many more of the items they've acquired from around the world? And how can the educational value of so-called ‘encyclopaedic museums' continue to educate millions if the number of artefacts they have on display is diminished? Ritula Shah is joined by a panel of expert guests. Producers: Paul Schuster and Ellen Otzen.

Forget the Victorians, the Georgian era is having its moment. Regencycore, a fashion style inspired by the Netflix period drama Bridgerton was shortlisted for Word of the Year 2021, and there will be more frocks and 18th century gossip when the television series returns in the Spring. In The Georgians the historian Penelope Corfield explores all aspects of 18th century life, from politics and empire to culture and society, science and industry. She tells Tom Sutcliffe that Britain at the time was often seen as both a sentimental and enlightened place, where frippery and satire sat side by side. Before the Industrial Revolution The Staffordshire potter Josiah Wedgwood exemplified the era's entrepreneurial spirit. He was, according to Tristram Hunt's biography, The Radical Potter, the Steve Jobs of the 18th century. His innovative designs and marketing strategies made his wares popular throughout the country and further afield, and he was instrumental in building the infrastructure to enable the region to flourish economically. What could today's policies to ‘level up' the regions learn from the 18th century, and Wedgwood's championing of his home town. Professor Philip McCann is Chair in Urban and Regional Economics at the University of Sheffield. He argues that during the last century the system of localised finance was lost as the country became highly centralised. This has had a serious impact on poorer regions and smaller local firms, and today the UK has some of the worst regional inequality in the world. Producer: Katy Hickman / Natalia Fernandez Photo Credit: LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX Bridgerton, Series 2 (L to R) Bessie Carter as Prudence Featherington, Polly Walker as Lady Portia Featherington, Harriet Cains as Philip

Tristram Hunt, author of The Radical Potter, discusses the life and work of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), from his groundbreaking ceramic creations and enterprising business ventures to his political radicalism. (Ad) Tristram Hunt is the author of The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain (Allen Lane, 2021). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Radical-Potter-Wedgwood-Transformation-Britain/dp/0241287898/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hexpod See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When Josiah Wedgwood had part of an injured leg amputed, he encouraged his workers to celebrate the anniversary as St Amputation Day. This remarkable man from Stoke on Trent built a pottery empire that made him famous round the world. He's nominated here, on location, by the former MP for Stoke Central, Tristram Hunt, now head of the Victoria and Albert museum in London. The programme includes an interview with the head of Royal Staffordshire, Norman Tempest, plus readings from Brian Dolan's biography, The First Tycoon. Tristram Hunt's latest book is called The Radical Potter. The presenter is Matthew Parris, the producer for BBC audio in Bristol is ex-Stoke resident Miles Warde

Director of the V&A and former Labour MP Tristram Hunt joins Conor Gearty to discuss his life and career.Tristram Hunt is the Director of the V&A – the world's leading museum of art, design and performance. Since taking up the post in 2017, Hunt has championed design education in UK schools, encouraged debate around the history of the museum's global collections and overseen the transition to a multi-site museum, with V&A Dundee, the redesign of the Museum of Childhood, and the development of a new museum and open access collections centre in Stratford, East London. Prior to joining the V&A, Hunt was Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central and Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He has a doctorate in Victorian history from Cambridge University, has worked as a Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary University of London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In addition to numerous radio and TV programmes for the BBC and Channel 4, he is the author of several books, including Ten Cities That Made an Empire (2014) and The Lives of the Objects (2019) telling the story of the V&A collection.Speaker: Dr Tristram Hunt, Director, V&AChair: Professor Conor Gearty FBA, Vice-President (Social Sciences), The British Academy; Professor of Human Rights Law, London School of EconomicsSHAPE (Social sciences, humanities & the arts for people and the economy) is a new collective name for those subjects that help us understand ourselves, others and the human world around us.

To celebrate a year to the day since Behind The Spine made its debut, Mark Heywood finds himself on the other side of the podcast desk, being interviewed by producer Ollie Guillou. Reflecting on two series worth of incredible conversations, Mark shares the lessons he's learnt and explains why he believes there really is a narrative in everything. Woven throughout the conversation are specially selected clips from some of the guests who've graciously given their time to the show, including Dame Evelyn Glennie, Sunny Singh, Andrew Gurza, Tristram Hunt and Richard Bell. In this episode learn about the importance of surrounding yourself with creative minds, discover why the ‘perfect guest' doesn't really exist, and find out what's in store for series 3 of the podcast! var podscribeEmbedVars = { epGuid: 'behindthespine.podbean.com/02fe34a0-69cc-3467-a5e0-eba96b6d61ac', rssUrl: 'https://feed.podbean.com/behindthespine/feed.xml', backgroundColor: 'white', font: undefined, fontColor: undefined, speakerFontColor: undefined, height: '600px', showEditButton: false, showSpeakers: true, showTimestamps: true };

TEN CITIES THAT MADE AN EMPIREHistorian, broadcaster and former Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt takes a new approach towards the history and decline of the British Empire. By examining the stories and defining ideas of ten of the most important cities, he shows how they transformed the culture, economy and identity of the British Isles for good. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Calls for the return of objects, looted from around the world are growing ever louder. Actor and musician Kema Sikazwe travels to London to see the Broken Hill Skull at the Natural History Museum. At the launch of the Return of the Icons campaign, V&A director Tristram Hunt explains how he is responding to Ethiopia's formal restitution claim. Children's author, Kandace Chimbiri describes how her writing fills gaping historical hole and French art historian Didier Rykner is convinced that President Macron's approach, is fundamentally flawed. Should priceless parts of history be returned? And if so, what's at stake? Theme music composed by Kema Sikazwe aka Kema Kay (Photo: Presenter, Kema Sikazwe in front of the Broken Hill Skull (which Zambia is trying to have repatriated from the UK) at the Natural History Museum. Credit: Will Sadler)

Museums are the greatest storytellers. Through artefacts and objects we learn the truth about the past, about the lives of our ancestors, seen and unseen. The collections allow us to draw our own conclusions, to craft our own stories, and to explore narratives in ways that are deeply personal. In this episode, Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A Museum in London, sheds light on what he calls the “people's collection”. We learn to be adventurous when writing about objects, to view them as more than just props, and to appreciate the storytelling potential of the journeys they go on. After all, the things that adorn our lives are the windows to our souls - their meanings ebb and flow throughout the ages, and those intricate narratives are ours for the taking, to be explored and exploited. var podscribeEmbedVars = { epId: 56485265, backgroundColor: 'white', height: '600px', showSpeakers: true };

On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, his biographer Tristram Hunt looks at how both Engels and Karl Marx were deeply affected by their time in London in the second half of the 19th century. London, then the heart of the British Empire, transformed the thinking of these two revolutionary philosophers on finance, on working people's lives, on cities, and on women voting. Hunt will look at the remarkable personal and family lives of the 'The Old Londoners' as they became known, in their North London homes at Primrose Hill and Chalk Farm.A lecture by Dr Tristram Hunt 6 OctoberThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/engels-marxGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

durée : 01:49:19 - Grandes traversées : Karl Marx, l'inconnu - par : Christine Lecerf - Les années passent. Marx travaille toujours au Capital sans parvenir à l’achever. L'esprit toujours aussi vif, le dernier Marx s’ouvre à de nouvelles questions et imagine un monde qui est aujourd'hui le nôtre. Une émission de Christine Lecerf réalisée par Franck Lilin. - réalisation : Franck Lilin - invités : Jacques Attali économiste et écrivain; Fabrice Bensimon Professeur d’histoire et de civilisation britanniques à l'université Paris-Sorbonne, membre du Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1- Paris 4); Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Alix Bouffard doctorante en philosophie; Beatrix Bouvier historienne; Johann Chapoutot Professeur d'histoire contemporaine à la Sorbonne, spécialiste de l'histoire de l'Allemagne; Jean-Numa Ducange Maître de conférences en histoire politique et sociale des XIXe et XXe siècles en Europe à l’université de Rouen; Isabelle Garo Philosophe; Rolf Hecker économiste; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Jürgen Herres historien; Rachel Holmes historienne; Gerald Hubmann directeur de l'édition complète des oeuvres de Marx et Engels; Tristram Hunt historien; Eberhard Illner historien; Paul Kelly mineur et syndicaliste anglais; Katja Kipping Femme politique; Michael Krätke économiste; Götz Langkau chercheur, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Gérald Le Corre inspecteur du travail et syndicaliste; Anne Longuet-Marx essayiste; Pierre Louvard cheminot et syndicaliste; Michaël Löwy philosophe et sociologue, auteur de Franz Kafka et de Rosa Luxemburg. L'étincelle incendiaire.; Elisabeth Neu Directrice de la Karl Marx Haus, Trèves; Michelle Perrot historienne, professeure émérite d’histoire contemporaine à l'université Paris-Diderot.; Michael Sanders professeur de littérature du XIXe siècle, University of Manchester; Lucien Sève philosophe; Ingo Schulze Ecrivain; Gareth Stedman Jones historien

durée : 01:48:50 - Grandes traversées : Karl Marx, l'inconnu - par : Christine Lecerf - Londres, 1850. La révolution industrielle bat son plein et Marx vit exilé dans la misère. Sur un bout de toile cirée, au milieu de la vaisselle et des enfants qui jouent, Marx se plonge dans les rouages du capitalisme et entame la rédaction de son grand roman à énigme, "Le Capital". - réalisation : Franck Lilin - invités : Jacques Attali économiste et écrivain; Fabrice Bensimon Professeur d’histoire et de civilisation britanniques à l'université Paris-Sorbonne, membre du Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1- Paris 4); Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Alix Bouffard doctorante en philosophie; John Catterall ouvrier et syndicaliste anglais; Jean-Numa Ducange Maître de conférences en histoire politique et sociale des XIXe et XXe siècles en Europe à l’université de Rouen; Manfred Flügge essayiste, auteur de 'Je me souviens de Berlin' (Grüntal).; Isabelle Garo Philosophe; Gaêl Giraud directeur de recherche au CNRS en économie, enseignant à L'École Polytechnique, professeur à l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts Paris tech', fellow associé à l'Institut des Études Avancées de Nantes, jésuite, président de l'Institut Rousseau; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Jürgen Herres historien; Rachel Holmes historienne; Tristram Hunt historien; Michel Husson économiste à l'IRES, membre du conseil scientifique d'Attac et de la Fondation Copernic; Eberhard Illner historien; Paul Kelly mineur et syndicaliste anglais; Michael Krätke économiste; Anne Longuet-Marx essayiste; Régis Louail ouvrier et syndicaliste; Pierre Louvard cheminot et syndicaliste; Michaël Löwy philosophe et sociologue, auteur de Franz Kafka et de Rosa Luxemburg. L'étincelle incendiaire.; Jean Quétier Doctorant en philosophie à l’université de Strasbourg; Michael Sanders professeur de littérature du XIXe siècle, University of Manchester; Lucien Sève philosophe; Sébastien Spitzer Auteur; Gareth Stedman Jones historien; Yanis Varoufakis Économiste grec et ancien ministre des finances du gouvernement Tsipras

durée : 01:49:09 - Grandes traversées : Karl Marx, l'inconnu - par : Christine Lecerf - Amoureux fou, bambocheur et poète, Marx jeune étudiant en droit va finalement se tourner vers la philosophie. Portrait inattendu d’un jeune romantique allemand et de ses tumultueuses années de formation. Une série documentaire produite par Christine Lecerf réalisée par Franck Lilin. - réalisation : Franck Lilin - invités : Jacques Attali économiste et écrivain; Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Beatrix Bouvier historienne; Johann Chapoutot Professeur d'histoire contemporaine à la Sorbonne, spécialiste de l'histoire de l'Allemagne; Pauline Clochec maîtresse de conférences en philosophie; Manfred Flügge essayiste, auteur de 'Je me souviens de Berlin' (Grüntal).; Isabelle Garo Philosophe; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Rachel Holmes historienne; Frank Hirschmann historien; Tristram Hunt historien; Eberhard Illner historien; Christian Jansen historien; Michael Krätke économiste; Götz Langkau chercheur, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Elisabeth Neu Directrice de la Karl Marx Haus, Trèves; Jacques Paparo archiviste; Jean Quétier Doctorant en philosophie à l’université de Strasbourg; Lucien Sève philosophe; Sébastien Spitzer Auteur; Katja Wollenberg archiviste

durée : 01:49:25 - Grandes traversées : Karl Marx, l'inconnu - par : Christine Lecerf - 1848. La révolte gronde dans toute l'Europe. Marx vit à l’heure des révolutions sans pour autant monter sur les barricades. Entre Paris, Bruxelles et Cologne, la police à ses trousses, il écrit avec pour seule arme la force de ses mots. Une série documentaire de C. Lecerf, réalisée par F. Lilin. - réalisation : Franck Lilin - invités : Jacques Attali économiste et écrivain; Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Beatrix Bouvier historienne; Johann Chapoutot Professeur d'histoire contemporaine à la Sorbonne, spécialiste de l'histoire de l'Allemagne; Pauline Clochec maîtresse de conférences en philosophie; Jean-Numa Ducange Maître de conférences en histoire politique et sociale des XIXe et XXe siècles en Europe à l’université de Rouen; Manfred Flügge essayiste, auteur de 'Je me souviens de Berlin' (Grüntal).; Isabelle Garo Philosophe; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Jürgen Herres historien; Rachel Holmes historienne; Gerald Hubmann directeur de l'édition complète des oeuvres de Marx et Engels; Tristram Hunt historien; Frank Hirschmann historien; Eberhard Illner historien; Christian Jansen historien; Götz Langkau chercheur, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Régis Louail ouvrier et syndicaliste; Pierre Louvard cheminot et syndicaliste; Michaël Löwy philosophe et sociologue, auteur de Franz Kafka et de Rosa Luxemburg. L'étincelle incendiaire.; Jacques Paparo archiviste; Michelle Perrot historienne, professeure émérite d’histoire contemporaine à l'université Paris-Diderot.; Jean Quétier Doctorant en philosophie à l’université de Strasbourg; Alain Rustenholz journaliste et auteur, spécialiste de l'histoire de Paris; Lucien Sève philosophe; Sébastien Spitzer Auteur

durée : 01:49:09 - Les Grandes Traversées - par : Christine Lecerf - Amoureux fou, bambocheur et poète, Marx jeune étudiant en droit va finalement se tourner vers la philosophie. Portrait inattendu d'un jeune romantique allemand et de ses tumultueuses années de formation. Une série documentaire produite par Christine Lecerf réalisée par Franck Lilin. - invités : Jacques Attali Économiste et écrivain; Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Beatrix Bouvier historienne; Johann Chapoutot Professeur d'histoire contemporaine à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV; Pauline Clochec maîtresse de conférences en philosophie; Manfred Flügge essayiste, auteur de 'Je me souviens de Berlin' (Grüntal).; Isabelle Garo Philosophe et enseignante en classes préparatoires; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Rachel Holmes historienne; Frank Hirschmann historien; Tristram Hunt historien; Eberhard Illner historien; Christian Jansen historien; Michael Krätke économiste; Götz Langkau chercheur, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Elisabeth Neu Directrice de la Karl Marx Haus, Trèves; Jacques Paparo archiviste; Jean Quétier Doctorant en philosophie à l'université de Strasbourg; Lucien Sève philosophe; Sébastien Spitzer Auteur; Katja Wollenberg archiviste

durée : 01:49:19 - Les Grandes Traversées - par : Christine Lecerf - Les années passent. Marx travaille toujours au Capital sans parvenir à l'achever. L'esprit toujours aussi vif, le dernier Marx s'ouvre à de nouvelles questions et imagine un monde qui est aujourd'hui le nôtre. Une émission de Christine Lecerf réalisée par Franck Lilin. - invités : Jacques Attali Économiste et écrivain; Fabrice Bensimon Professeur d'histoire et de civilisation britanniques à l'université Paris-Sorbonne, membre du Centre d'Histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1- Paris 4); Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Alix Bouffard doctorante en philosophie; Beatrix Bouvier historienne; Johann Chapoutot Professeur d'histoire contemporaine à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV; Jean-Numa Ducange Historien, professeur à l'Université de Rouen Normandie, spécialiste de l'histoire des gauches, des mouvements ouvriers et socialistes européens; Isabelle Garo Philosophe et enseignante en classes préparatoires; Rolf Hecker économiste; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Jürgen Herres historien; Rachel Holmes historienne; Gerald Hubmann directeur de l'édition complète des oeuvres de Marx et Engels; Tristram Hunt historien; Eberhard Illner historien; Paul Kelly mineur et syndicaliste anglais; Katja Kipping Femme politique; Michael Krätke économiste; Götz Langkau chercheur, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Gérald Le Corre inspecteur du travail et syndicaliste; Anne Longuet-Marx essayiste; Pierre Louvard cheminot et syndicaliste; Michaël Löwy philosophe et sociologue, auteur de Franz Kafka et de Rosa Luxemburg. L'étincelle incendiaire.; Elisabeth Neu Directrice de la Karl Marx Haus, Trèves; Michelle Perrot Historienne, professeure émérite d'histoire contemporaine à l'Université Paris Cité; Michael Sanders professeur de littérature du XIXe siècle, University of Manchester; Lucien Sève philosophe; Ingo Schulze Ecrivain; Gareth Stedman Jones historien

durée : 01:49:25 - Les Grandes Traversées - par : Christine Lecerf - 1848. La révolte gronde dans toute l'Europe. Marx vit à l'heure des révolutions sans pour autant monter sur les barricades. Entre Paris, Bruxelles et Cologne, la police à ses trousses, il écrit avec pour seule arme la force de ses mots. Une série documentaire de C. Lecerf, réalisée par F. Lilin. - invités : Jacques Attali Économiste et écrivain; Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Beatrix Bouvier historienne; Johann Chapoutot Professeur d'histoire contemporaine à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV; Pauline Clochec maîtresse de conférences en philosophie; Jean-Numa Ducange Historien, professeur à l'Université de Rouen Normandie, spécialiste de l'histoire des gauches, des mouvements ouvriers et socialistes européens; Manfred Flügge essayiste, auteur de 'Je me souviens de Berlin' (Grüntal).; Isabelle Garo Philosophe et enseignante en classes préparatoires; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Jürgen Herres historien; Rachel Holmes historienne; Gerald Hubmann directeur de l'édition complète des oeuvres de Marx et Engels; Tristram Hunt historien; Frank Hirschmann historien; Eberhard Illner historien; Christian Jansen historien; Götz Langkau chercheur, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Régis Louail ouvrier et syndicaliste; Pierre Louvard cheminot et syndicaliste; Michaël Löwy philosophe et sociologue, auteur de Franz Kafka et de Rosa Luxemburg. L'étincelle incendiaire.; Jacques Paparo archiviste; Michelle Perrot Historienne, professeure émérite d'histoire contemporaine à l'Université Paris Cité; Jean Quétier Doctorant en philosophie à l'université de Strasbourg; Alain Rustenholz journaliste et auteur, spécialiste de l'histoire de Paris; Lucien Sève philosophe; Sébastien Spitzer Auteur

durée : 01:48:50 - Les Grandes Traversées - par : Christine Lecerf - Londres, 1850. La révolution industrielle bat son plein et Marx vit exilé dans la misère. Sur un bout de toile cirée, au milieu de la vaisselle et des enfants qui jouent, Marx se plonge dans les rouages du capitalisme et entame la rédaction de son grand roman à énigme, "Le Capital". - invités : Jacques Attali Économiste et écrivain; Fabrice Bensimon Professeur d'histoire et de civilisation britanniques à l'université Paris-Sorbonne, membre du Centre d'Histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1- Paris 4); Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Alix Bouffard doctorante en philosophie; John Catterall ouvrier et syndicaliste anglais; Jean-Numa Ducange Historien, professeur à l'Université de Rouen Normandie, spécialiste de l'histoire des gauches, des mouvements ouvriers et socialistes européens; Manfred Flügge essayiste, auteur de 'Je me souviens de Berlin' (Grüntal).; Isabelle Garo Philosophe et enseignante en classes préparatoires; Gaël Giraud Directeur du programme justice environnementale de Georgetown University, directeur de recherche au CNRS, ancien chef économiste de l'AFD et enseignant à l'école Polytechnique; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Jürgen Herres historien; Rachel Holmes historienne; Tristram Hunt historien; Michel Husson économiste à l'IRES, membre du conseil scientifique d'Attac et de la Fondation Copernic; Eberhard Illner historien; Paul Kelly mineur et syndicaliste anglais; Michael Krätke économiste; Anne Longuet-Marx essayiste; Régis Louail ouvrier et syndicaliste; Pierre Louvard cheminot et syndicaliste; Michaël Löwy philosophe et sociologue, auteur de Franz Kafka et de Rosa Luxemburg. L'étincelle incendiaire.; Jean Quétier Doctorant en philosophie à l'université de Strasbourg; Michael Sanders professeur de littérature du XIXe siècle, University of Manchester; Lucien Sève philosophe; Sébastien Spitzer Auteur; Gareth Stedman Jones historien; Yanis Varoufakis Économiste grec et ancien ministre des finances du gouvernement Tsipras

durée : 01:49:19 - Grandes traversées : Karl Marx, l'inconnu - par : Christine Lecerf - Les années passent. Marx travaille toujours au Capital sans parvenir à l’achever. L'esprit toujours aussi vif, le dernier Marx s’ouvre à de nouvelles questions et imagine un monde qui est aujourd'hui le nôtre. Une émission de Christine Lecerf réalisée par Franck Lilin. - réalisation : Franck Lilin - invités : Jacques Attali économiste et écrivain; Fabrice Bensimon Professeur d’histoire et de civilisation britanniques à l'université Paris-Sorbonne, membre du Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1- Paris 4); Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Alix Bouffard doctorante en philosophie; Beatrix Bouvier historienne; Johann Chapoutot Professeur d'histoire contemporaine à la Sorbonne, spécialiste de l'histoire de l'Allemagne; Jean-Numa Ducange Maître de conférences en histoire politique et sociale des XIXe et XXe siècles en Europe à l’université de Rouen; Isabelle Garo Philosophe; Rolf Hecker économiste; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Jürgen Herres historien; Rachel Holmes historienne; Gerald Hubmann directeur de l'édition complète des oeuvres de Marx et Engels; Tristram Hunt historien; Eberhard Illner historien; Paul Kelly mineur et syndicaliste anglais; Katja Kipping Femme politique; Michael Krätke économiste; Götz Langkau chercheur, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Gérald Le Corre inspecteur du travail et syndicaliste; Anne Longuet-Marx essayiste; Pierre Louvard cheminot et syndicaliste; Michaël Löwy philosophe et sociologue, auteur de Franz Kafka et de Rosa Luxemburg. L'étincelle incendiaire.; Elisabeth Neu Directrice de la Karl Marx Haus, Trèves; Michelle Perrot historienne, professeure émérite d’histoire contemporaine à l'université Paris-Diderot.; Michael Sanders professeur de littérature du XIXe siècle, University of Manchester; Lucien Sève philosophe; Ingo Schulze Ecrivain; Gareth Stedman Jones historien

durée : 01:49:25 - Grandes traversées : Karl Marx, l'inconnu - par : Christine Lecerf - 1848. La révolte gronde dans toute l'Europe. Marx vit à l’heure des révolutions sans pour autant monter sur les barricades. Entre Paris, Bruxelles et Cologne, la police à ses trousses, il écrit avec pour seule arme la force de ses mots. Une série documentaire de C. Lecerf, réalisée par F. Lilin. - réalisation : Franck Lilin - invités : Jacques Attali économiste et écrivain; Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Beatrix Bouvier historienne; Johann Chapoutot Professeur d'histoire contemporaine à la Sorbonne, spécialiste de l'histoire de l'Allemagne; Pauline Clochec maîtresse de conférences en philosophie; Jean-Numa Ducange Maître de conférences en histoire politique et sociale des XIXe et XXe siècles en Europe à l’université de Rouen; Manfred Flügge essayiste, auteur de 'Je me souviens de Berlin' (Grüntal).; Isabelle Garo Philosophe; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Jürgen Herres historien; Rachel Holmes historienne; Gerald Hubmann directeur de l'édition complète des oeuvres de Marx et Engels; Tristram Hunt historien; Frank Hirschmann historien; Eberhard Illner historien; Christian Jansen historien; Götz Langkau chercheur, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Régis Louail ouvrier et syndicaliste; Pierre Louvard cheminot et syndicaliste; Michaël Löwy philosophe et sociologue, auteur de Franz Kafka et de Rosa Luxemburg. L'étincelle incendiaire.; Jacques Paparo archiviste; Michelle Perrot historienne, professeure émérite d’histoire contemporaine à l'université Paris-Diderot.; Jean Quétier Doctorant en philosophie à l’université de Strasbourg; Alain Rustenholz journaliste et auteur, spécialiste de l'histoire de Paris; Lucien Sève philosophe; Sébastien Spitzer Auteur

durée : 01:48:50 - Grandes traversées : Karl Marx, l'inconnu - par : Christine Lecerf - Londres, 1850. La révolution industrielle bat son plein et Marx vit exilé dans la misère. Sur un bout de toile cirée, au milieu de la vaisselle et des enfants qui jouent, Marx se plonge dans les rouages du capitalisme et entame la rédaction de son grand roman à énigme, "Le Capital". - réalisation : Franck Lilin - invités : Jacques Attali économiste et écrivain; Fabrice Bensimon Professeur d’histoire et de civilisation britanniques à l'université Paris-Sorbonne, membre du Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1- Paris 4); Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Alix Bouffard doctorante en philosophie; John Catterall ouvrier et syndicaliste anglais; Jean-Numa Ducange Maître de conférences en histoire politique et sociale des XIXe et XXe siècles en Europe à l’université de Rouen; Manfred Flügge essayiste, auteur de 'Je me souviens de Berlin' (Grüntal).; Isabelle Garo Philosophe; Gaêl Giraud directeur de recherche au CNRS en économie, enseignant à L'École Polytechnique, professeur à l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts Paris tech', fellow associé à l'Institut des Études Avancées de Nantes, jésuite, président de l'Institut Rousseau; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Jürgen Herres historien; Rachel Holmes historienne; Tristram Hunt historien; Michel Husson économiste à l'IRES, membre du conseil scientifique d'Attac et de la Fondation Copernic; Eberhard Illner historien; Paul Kelly mineur et syndicaliste anglais; Michael Krätke économiste; Anne Longuet-Marx essayiste; Régis Louail ouvrier et syndicaliste; Pierre Louvard cheminot et syndicaliste; Michaël Löwy philosophe et sociologue, auteur de Franz Kafka et de Rosa Luxemburg. L'étincelle incendiaire.; Jean Quétier Doctorant en philosophie à l’université de Strasbourg; Michael Sanders professeur de littérature du XIXe siècle, University of Manchester; Lucien Sève philosophe; Sébastien Spitzer Auteur; Gareth Stedman Jones historien; Yanis Varoufakis Économiste grec et ancien ministre des finances du gouvernement Tsipras

durée : 01:49:09 - Grandes traversées : Karl Marx, l'inconnu - par : Christine Lecerf - Amoureux fou, bambocheur et poète, Marx jeune étudiant en droit va finalement se tourner vers la philosophie. Portrait inattendu d’un jeune romantique allemand et de ses tumultueuses années de formation. Une série documentaire produite par Christine Lecerf réalisée par Franck Lilin. - réalisation : Franck Lilin - invités : Jacques Attali économiste et écrivain; Pierre Bergounioux écrivain; Beatrix Bouvier historienne; Johann Chapoutot Professeur d'histoire contemporaine à la Sorbonne, spécialiste de l'histoire de l'Allemagne; Pauline Clochec maîtresse de conférences en philosophie; Manfred Flügge essayiste, auteur de 'Je me souviens de Berlin' (Grüntal).; Isabelle Garo Philosophe; Michael Heinrich philosophe; Rachel Holmes historienne; Frank Hirschmann historien; Tristram Hunt historien; Eberhard Illner historien; Christian Jansen historien; Michael Krätke économiste; Götz Langkau chercheur, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Elisabeth Neu Directrice de la Karl Marx Haus, Trèves; Jacques Paparo archiviste; Jean Quétier Doctorant en philosophie à l’université de Strasbourg; Lucien Sève philosophe; Sébastien Spitzer Auteur; Katja Wollenberg archiviste

This webinar is the second in a four-part mini-series on issues of race and justice in policing, education, the culture sector and wider society, as part of the regular series of Dialogue & Debate webinars from Cumberland Lodge. The discussion is presented by Cumberland Lodge trustee and Director of the 21st Century Trust, John Lotherington, with guest panellists: - Dr Christienna Fryar - Lecturer in Black British History, Goldsmiths (University of London) - Dr Tristram Hunt - Director, Victoria & Albert Museum - Zaiba Patel - History teacher - Olivia Wyatt - Researcher, Young Historians Project This webinar explores the findings and recommendations of our 2019 Cumberland Lodge Report, Difficult Histories & Positive Identities, in light of recent events associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, including the removal of statues and the changing of street or school names.

Alexandra Wood started her tailoring business in 2007 as a hobby and has since designed and made clothing for hundreds of high-profile men who want to make a positive impact to the way they look and feel. Her career started in Savile Row, as one of the first, female owned tailoring businesses. She then went on to re-open the longest standing tailors (400 years) in Bishop's Stortford, with a new, modernised version of men's tailoring. The brand has recently expanded from made to measure tailoring to successful, ready to wear collections. Alex continues to break the mould when it comes to delivering exceptional quality and service in menswear. The brand has helped land politician Chuka Umunna on GQ's Best-Dressed top 50 twice, and GQ Columnist Tony Parsons named them ‘Tailor of the 21st Century'. Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A wore an Alexandra Wood two-piece while cutting the ribbon on the vaunted Christian Dior retrospective, and so did director Rupert Goold, while showcasing his new film Judy at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.In this episode of the MenswearStyle Podcast we interview Alexandra Wood about how she first got started in men's tailoring and the story of how she set up her business. It was whilst on maternity leave that Alex began as a visiting tailor, meeting clients in their offices or at home. She now serves her clients at the brand's Savile Row showroom and Bishop's Stortford store, whilst also managing the marketing and eCommerce for the brand. Our host Peter Brooker and Alex also chat about education and training, the differences between design and cutting, elevating a man's style, why you shouldn't follow trends, and opening a 1000 sq ft shop to showcase new Alexandra Wood ready to wear collections.Whilst we have your attention, be sure to sign up to our daily MenswearStyle newsletter here. We promise to only send you the good stuff.Photo: Amanda Forman

In this episode we debate the future of museums with Dr Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A Museum, Diane Lees, director general of the Imperial War Museum and Mark Urban, diplomatic editor at BBC Newsnight. Together they explore why this topic is crucial to culture and society, describe what changes have been made to ensure that the history and knowledge within museums remains accessible to the public, and explore what can be done to ensure their future safety.

This week Undercurrents returns with interviews on decolonization and the impact of the coronavirus crisis on China’s economy. Ben is joined by Events team colleague Amrit Swali to interview Tristram Hunt and Meera Sabaratnam about the decolonization process. They explore the role of civic institutions in re-thinking the legacies of the British Empire and breaking down colonial power structures which survive to this day.  Next, Agnes discusses the Coronavirus crisis with Yu Jie from the Asia-Pacific Programme. They assess the impact of the health emergency on China's economy and its reputation globally.  Watch the Chatham House Event: Understanding Decolonization in the 21st Century Read the Chatham House Expert Comment: Centralization is Hobbling China's Response to the Coronavirus Listen to the new podcast: Independent Thinking - The Events Podcast from Chatham House Credits: Speakers: Tristram Hunt, Meera Sabaratnam, Yu Jie Hosts: Agnes Frimston, Ben Horton, Amrit Swali Sound Editor: Jamie Reed Producer: Ben Horton Recorded and produced at Chatham House

This week Undercurrents returns with interviews on decolonization and the impact of the coronavirus crisis on China’s economy. Ben is joined by Events team colleague Amrit Swali to interview Tristram Hunt and Meera Sabaratnam about the decolonization process. They explore the role of civic institutions in re-thinking the legacies of the British Empire and breaking down colonial power structures which survive to this day.  Next, Agnes discusses the Coronavirus crisis with Yu Jie from the Asia-Pacific Programme. They assess the impact of the health emergency on China's economy and its reputation globally.  Watch the Chatham House Event: Understanding Decolonization in the 21st Century Read the Chatham House Expert Comment: Centralization is Hobbling China's Response to the Coronavirus Listen to the new podcast: Independent Thinking - The Events Podcast from Chatham House Credits: Speakers: Tristram Hunt, Meera Sabaratnam, Yu Jie Hosts: Agnes Frimston, Ben Horton, Amrit Swali Sound Editor: Jamie Reed Producer: Ben Horton Recorded and produced at Chatham House

Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, poets Sam Illingworth and Sunayana Bhargava, and C19 expert and New Generation Thinker Greg Tate from the University of St Andrews join Anne McElvoy to discuss the parallels between poetry and Victorian laboratory work. Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, is perhaps most famous for first discovering Pulsars - strange spinning massively dense stars that emit powerful regular pulses of radiation. she has been President of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Institute of Physics, and more recently was recipient of the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Alongside, she collects poetry related to Astronomy. Greg Tate's next book looks at the physical and metaphysical part of rhythm in verse by C19 physical scientists. Sam Illingworth's book "Sonnet to Science" looks at several scientists who have resorted to poetry in their work. Sunayana Bhargava works at University of Sussex studying distant galactic clusters, and is also a practising poet. Previously she was Barbican young Poet. You can hear Greg discussing the 19th-century scientist and mountaineer John Tyndall in a Free Thinking programme which also looks at mountains through the eyes of artist Tacita Dean https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3fkt3 and a short feature about poetry and science in the 19th century https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n2zcp Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A Museum and Sir Paul Nurse, Director of the Francis Crick Institute, debate the divide and the links between arts and science in a Free Thinking debate recording at Queen Mary University London https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001f5f Producer: Alex Mansfield.

Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.   Link of the Month: Susan Oosthuizen Landscape Case study:   https://tinyurl.com/y4hgcs2a   Links:   01:29 - ‘No compensation’ for Tintagel bridge delays:   https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/no-compensation-for-tintagel-bridge-delays/5100250.article?fbclid=IwAR2CLNGxWYr2Q4Dj63DWTZacuuCoWpjQ8fvy3Z1DuYI-2xslpOqjvCvDlIU#.XRYHFduKg7g.twitter      12:05 - PUPPY DOG EYES EVOLVED SO DOGS COULD COMMUNICATE WITH US:    https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/animals/puppy-dog-eyes-evolved-so-dogs-could-communicate-with-us.aspx   Plan to show treasures in Ethiopia is underway - V&A boss Tristram Hunt: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/30/plan-to-show-ethiopian-treasures-in-addis-ababa-under-way-says-tristram-hunt?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Messenger&fbclid=IwAR28lKuGbD0meytxfElm0czuOXvPqh4Z9a3iCvhIMSMtsxhcl-BTYZpqezE 47:08 - Professor Alice Roberts leaves Twitter after facing ‘hate, bile and misogyny’: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/professor-alice-roberts-twitter-deactivated-time-team-gender-binary-hate-bile-misogyny-a8966976.html?fbclid=IwAR1Rn2NcxDatNPxGwacRjOLnf8Uu7eTQVJuuiCDV-h5dWNdLmLOjOjSy5Uk Facebook Link: https://tinyurl.com/y45bpd9m 01:07:09 - Controversial King Tut Statue Has Sketchy Origins. Now Christie's Is Selling it: https://www.livescience.com/65790-king-tut-statue-investigation.html?fbclid=IwAR3KJSi4OXu78DJ4x-KzC5qlyV4q23IrEOMJEFGal3IMfjxNBoYLo92pvSU Bust of Tutankhamun sold at auction for £4.7m despite Egypt protests: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jul/05/bust-of-tutankhamun-sold-at-auction-for-47m-despite-egypt-protests?fbclid=IwAR2xAvPZ6ERaxAOTPHW9eHefqo-Ykm10Wh2RMb1MbTfCm9O4S4DVwPoR1ME 'Blood Antiquities' Looted from War-Torn Yemen Bring in $1 Million at Auction: https://www.livescience.com/65641-yemen-blood-antiquities-investigation.html?fbclid=IwAR2MeFy1dC14ljLja_fiQuAmJRU3_jCeD-wsdZ7DOpih-jdmWW7caCFyEck   01:22:19 – Muppets of the Month:    

With Subhadra Das, Clémentine Deliss, Tristram Hunt, and Alice Procter. Chaired by Mirjam Brusius. This event was part of the Contested Histories seminar series 2019 and took place on 25 June 2019 at the German Historical Institute London.

With Theresa May on her way out of 10 Downing Street and Britain no closer to achieving the Brexit she promised, Anne McElvoy takes the long view. She asks Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Conservative MP, and Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, to debate how the titans of the 19th century shaped modern Britain. What would Queen Victoria do? And who in the Conservative party do they tip to take over the leadership? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With Theresa May on her way out of 10 Downing Street and Britain no closer to achieving the Brexit she promised, Anne McElvoy takes the long view. She asks Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Conservative MP, and Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, to debate how the titans of the 19th century shaped modern Britain. What would Queen Victoria do? And who in the Conservative party do they tip to take over the leadership? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For Jacob Rees-Mogg the 19th century was a golden era. It was a time of moral certainty, of a global vision for Great Britain, and a confidence in the essential goodness of our great nation. And it is a period of history that offers us guidance as we collectively seek a way forward for Britain in these confusing times. In a new book Rees-Mogg celebrates twelve prominent figures from the Victorian era, including the statesmen Palmerston, Peel, Gladstone and Disraeli, two military leaders, Napier and Gordon, and of course Victoria herself and her consort Albert. Rees-Mogg salutes the Victorians’ drive and reforming zeal – to lower the cost of food, reform the prison system and abolish the slave trade. They bequeathed us a stable democracy, the rule of law and freedom of speech, which led to the stable and prosperous state we enjoy today, Rees-Mogg argues. There is much that we can emulate in the Victorians’ sense of duty and self-belief.While few would deny that the modern age owes a debt to the Victorians, many would argue that Rees-Mogg’s vision is a somewhat blinkered one, reflecting his own position as a Conservative MP on the right of the party and an ardent Brexiteer who believes in a post-Brexit global Britain. Joining Rees-Mogg on stage to challenge his views was Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, former Labour MP and historian of the Victorian era. Rees-Mogg believes that if Britain can regain the self-confidence, moral certainty and outward-looking vision of the Victorians, we will thrive. But in the complex, interconnected world of the 21st century, is this vision of Britain not an outdated one? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Tiffany Jenkins talks to the director of the V&A in London, Tristram Hunt, about who owns culture, and what to do with looted objects. They take a close look at a stunning gold crown, seized by the British Army during the 1868 Abyssinian Expedition (modern day Ethiopia), and discuss President Macron’s commissioned Sarr-Savoy report on returning African artefacts acquired in the colonial era.   ► LINKS:   Find out more about the Maqdala treasures, on the V&A blog:  Find out about AFROMET - The Association for the Return of The Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures.  Read the Sarr-Savoy Report ‘The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage, Toward a New Relational Ethics’:   ► MUSIC:  Signature tune:  Nick Vander Black Kopal - Galaxy I The rest: Lobo Loco - www.musikbrause.de Just a Moment (ID 944), Psychedelic Blues 1 (ID 997), Sleeping Dragons  (ID 1018) Creative Commons License (by-nc-nd) Tim Hart Royalty - Free Music Large Collection (100+ Tracks) -  Track 25 - The Eleventh Sun Track 91 - Walking with the Night Track 81 - The Bridge ► PICTURES: INSTAGRAM - @BehindtheMuseum  TWITTER - @BehindtheMuseum ___ Behind the Scenes at the Museum is presented by Tiffany Jenkins and produced by Jac Phillimore.  

Geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, current director of the Francis Crick Institute, and Tristram Hunt, historian and now director of the V&A, debate the impact of robots, the winners and losers in funding, whether our education system has the balance right between STEM and Arts subjects and they reveal their own arts and science hits and misses. Recorded before an audience at Queen Mary University London, the presenter is Shahidha Bari. Nearly 60 years on from C.P. Snow's 'Two Cultures' lecture in which the chemist and novelist argued that a great divide existed between art and science, this conversation considers the relationship between the two in 2018. Producer: Craig Templeton Smith

In the Victorian era, plaster casts became a way to preserve important artifacts in 3-D. Now, virtual reality promises to preserve places and experiences. But who decides what gets preserved? And is the technology an accurate recreation of the experience, or does it fool us into thinking we’ve encountered the real thing when we’ve done nothing of the sort? Guests include: Jaron Lanier, VR pioneer; Nonny de la Pena, VR artist; Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the Victorian era, plaster casts became a way to preserve important artifacts in 3-D. Now, virtual reality promises to preserve places and experiences. But who decides what gets preserved? And is the technology an accurate recreation of the experience, or does it fool us into thinking we’ve encountered the real thing when we’ve done nothing of the sort? Guests include: Jaron Lanier, VR pioneer; Nonny de la Pena, VR artist; Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. This episode is brought to you by the following advertisers: Trailblazers, a podcast series from Dell and Walter Isaacson. American Express. Don’t do business without it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the Victorian era, plaster casts became a way to preserve important artifacts in 3-D. Now, virtual reality promises to preserve places and experiences. But who decides what gets preserved? And is the technology an accurate recreation of the experience, or does it fool us into thinking we’ve encountered the real thing when we’ve done nothing of the sort? Guests include: Jaron Lanier, VR pioneer; Nonny de la Pena, VR artist; Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What’s all this nonsense about sending the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece? If Lord Elgin hadn’t rescued them from the Parthenon in Athens and presented them to the British Museum almost 200 years ago, these exquisite sculptures – the finest embodiment of the classical ideal of beauty and harmony – would have been lost to the ravages of pollution and time. So we have every right to keep them: indeed, returning them would set a dangerous precedent, setting off a clamour for every Egyptian mummy and Grecian urn to be wrenched from the world’s museums and sent back to its country of origin. It is great institutions like the British Museum that have established such artefacts as items of world significance: more people see the Marbles in the BM than visit Athens every year. Why send them back to relative obscurity?But aren’t such arguments a little too imperialistic? All this talk of visitor numbers and dangerous precedents – doesn’t it just sound like an excuse for Britain to hold on to dubiously acquired treasures that were removed without the consent of the Greek people to whom they culturally and historically belong? That’s what Lord Byron thought, and in June 2012 Stephen Fry took up the cause. In this debate Fry argues we should return the Marbles as a gesture of solidarity with Greece in its financial distress, and as a mark of respect for the cradle of democracy and the birthplace of rational thought.Joining Fry on the "For" side was Andrew George. Chair of Marbles Reunite and Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives. Against them were Felipe Fernández-Armesto, the William P Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame; and Tristram Hunt, Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central and a broadcaster, historian and newspaper columnist.The debate was chaired by BBC World News presenter Zeinab Badawi. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ritula Shah presents Any Questions from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London

This Friday the new Exhibition Road Quarter at London's Victoria & Albert Museum opens to the public. The architect behind the six-year project, Amanda Levete, and the museum's new director Tristram Hunt, discuss the £48m design which features a new porcelain-tiled courtyard, entrance hall, and a cavernous underground gallery for the museum's temporary exhibitions.Risk, a new documentary about Julian Assange from Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras, was filmed over six years and with unprecedented access to the Wikileaks founder. The film was originally shown at last year's Cannes Film Festival, but Poitras has since re-cut it to incorporate the DNC email leaks that took place during the US Presidential election, and the sexual abuse allegations brought against one of the film's subjects. The director discusses her controversial film.After the result of last year's European referendum, Meike Ziervogel, founder of Peirene Press, commissioned Anthony Cartwright to write a novel in response to it, one that explored the conflict that was so evident in society. They discuss their working relationship throughout the writing process, and the resulting novel, The Cut. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Jerome Weatherald.

The British actor Christian Bale started his film career as a child star but has gone on to become a hugely successful adult actor. With the release of his latest film The Promise - an epic set in First World War Turkey - film critic Angie Errigo looks at his choice of roles and assesses what it says about Bale as a serious actor. The clash of creative differences at Shakespeare's Globe has put the role of Artistic Director into the spotlight. But what exactly is that role and what are the pressures facing the people leading theatres? Daniel Evans, who has just started his first season at the helm of Chichester Festival Theatre, and Tamara Harvey, now in her second year at Theatr Clywd, discuss. On last night's Front Row John Wilson hosted a debate about the future of museums with with Hartwig Fischer, the new director of the British Museum, Tristram Hunt, who's just taken up his post as director of the V&A, Sarah Munro, director of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary art in Gateshead, and Stephen Deuchar, director of Art Fund. The debate continued off air and in tonight's programme, and last night's podcast, you can hear the panellists discuss the importance of museums working with schools, local communities and each other.This week is the 100th anniversary since the birth of a singer who has been dubbed the Queen of Jazz. Ella Fitzgerald sold over 40m albums and won 13 Grammy awards. Singer Peggy Lee described her as 'the greatest jazz singer of our time, the standard by which each of us is measured'. To celebrate Lady Ella's centenary week, Kevin Le Gendre picks three stand-out moments from her vast canon of work which highlight what makes her so special.Presenter Kirsty Lang Producer Harry Parker.

In a live programme from the Nereid Gallery in the British Museum, John Wilson is joined by Hartwig Fischer, director of the British Museum, Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, Sarah Munro, director of Baltic, and Stephen Deuchar, Director of the Art Fund. After the announcement of the Art Fund Museum of the Year shortlist, the panel will debate the current and future role for museums and galleries in Britain, with particular attention to how they are funded, and how to make them relevant to the people of Britain today.

With James Forsyth and Ayesha Hazarika. Presented by Fraser Nelson.

Ben Affleck discusses writing, directing, producing and starring in Live By Night, in which a bunch of Boston gangsters make their way to Florida and find themselves up against the competition in the Prohibition era.With news that the Labour MP and historian Tristram Hunt is to become the new director of the V&A in London, former Chair of Arts Council England Liz Forgan gives her reaction. The death of photographer Lord Snowdon - Antony Armstrong-Jones - was announced today. His former dealer, Giles Huxley-Parlour, remembers the former husband of Princess Margaret, who has died aged 86.Untitled is the name of a new exhibition at Nottingham's New Art Exchange. It refers to a longstanding practice where artists choose not to title their work in case it influences the viewer. This exhibition offers 12 contemporary African diaspora artists an open platform so visitors can come to their own conclusions on the message behind their art. Morgan Quaintance reviews.As a new species of gibbon discovered in the tropical forests of SW China is named Skywalker, comedian and writer Danny Robins reflects on the weird world of animals named after cultural figures.And to mark the severe flood warnings issued today for the east coast of England, we remember the flood in 1571 in Boston, which Jean Ingelow describes in her 1863 poem High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire.

Historian-politicians Tristram Hunt, Chris Skidmore, Kwasi Kwarteng and Peter Hennessy explain how their two professions relate to each other. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With Christopher Buckley, Tristram Hunt, Douglas Murray, James Forsyth and Freddy Gray. Presented by Lara Prendergast. Produced by Tom Goodenough

During this public lecture, the MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central makes his first public statement on the challenges facing the Labour Party, on his decision not to stand as a leadership contender and on how to close the wide gap that seems to have emerged between the governors and the governed.

We talk the week in politics (warning: features Tristram Hunt impressions. Listen to the end for a special Easter Egg! (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, George Eaton, Anoosh Chakelian). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Richard Vaughan as he dissects the policies of education secretary Michael Gove and his opposite number Tristram Hunt, who both set out their stalls at a Policy Exchange event this week, giving the education world an insight of what to expect in the run up to the general election next year. Listen to teacher and blogger Tom Bennett give his own, unique take on their speeches, and hear from the fantastic two teachers from Huntington School in York who have recorded and released their own England World Cup anthem under the name Disco Mister. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tristram Hunt MP rounded off our Saturday by taking a look at the Ten Cities That Made an Empire. The empire in question being the British Empire which Hunt brought to life with vivid stories of the most important cities which shaped its influence, and legacy – including Dublin, Cape Town, Bridgetown and Boston. Listen to … Continue reading Ten Cities That Made an Empire – Tristram Hunt

The following 'Thought for the Day' was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 10th December 2014. Transcript below. In the past few days both the education secretary Nicky Morgan, and shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt have spoken about how important it is for schools to build character in their pupils: things like determination, resilience, respect, kindness and integrity, things that used to be called virtues. And that makes a whole lot of sense to me. Children at school are being tested on facts more than ever, and we’re in danger of becoming obsessed with SATs, exam results, and league tables. Yet if there’s one thing we all learn on leaving school, it’s that life isn’t an end of year exam. What matters in the long run is your ability to persist, learn from your mistakes, act so as to earn the trust of others, to be able to listen, and praise and admire the work of others, to be loyal, and honest and do what you say you’re going to do, and just keep going. More than once I’ve been sustained by Winston Churchill’s great remark that success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. And that other quote, author unknown, that education is what’s left when you’ve forgotten everything you learned at school. What’s left, of course, is character, habits of the heart. It’s a profound biblical insight. In the only verse in the Bible to explain why Abraham became the father of faith, it says God chose him “so that he would direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just.” It was his ability to shape the character of his children. And the great Greek philosophers, Aristotle especially, came to the same conclusion, that ethics is an education in virtue. At times like ours, when the world is changing almost faster than we can bear, and yesterday’s knowledge is made obsolete by today’s, we can’t give our children a map of the future, but we can give them a compass that will allow them to navigate tomorrow, the inner compass we call character. The aptly named American educator Paul Tough, recently assembled the evidence showing that “there is no anti-poverty tool that we can provide for disadvantaged young people that will be more valuable than character strengths,” especially grit, curiosity, self control, and the willingness to keep learning and growing. What matters most in what we learn from school and home is not the knowledge we accumulate but the kind of person we become.

Stephen Nolan presents a live debate from the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, where members of the Shadow Cabinet answer questions from the audience about what a Labour government would do for them. He’s also joined by Shadow Education Secretary, Tristram Hunt, Shadow Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, and Shadow Business Minister, Ian Murray.

Listen to the shadow education secretary's keynote speech to the CBI's education conference.

Tristram Hunt, author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through ten cities that epitomised it. The final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped. Here Tristram Hunt examines the stories and defining ideas of ten of the most important: of 1700s Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi, and 20th century Liverpool. Rejecting binary views of the British Empire as 'very good' or 'very bad', Hunt describes the complex processes of exchange and adaptation that collectively shaped the colonial experience – and, in turn, transformed the culture, economy and identity of the British Isles. Tristram Hunt is one of Britain's best known historians. Since 2010 he has been the MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, and in October 2013 was made Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He is a Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London, and has written numerous series for radio and television. He is also a regular contributor to The Times, Guardian and Observer. His previous books include The English Civil War at First Hand, Building Jerusalem, and The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels.

Great British Ideas: Robert Malthus. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how the ideas of the 18th century British economist Robert Malthus wreaked havoc in 19th century India, yet were later adopted by Indians themselves.

Great British Ideas: Young England and Young Ireland. Tristram Hunt traces the curious influence of the romantic 'Young England' movement, led by Benjamin Disraeli in the 1840s, on 'Young Ireland', which sought Irish freedom.

Great British Ideas:J.A. Hobson, Lenin and Anti-Imperialism. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how an anti-imperialist book by a liberal English journalist had a surprising impact on Lenin - in exile, and even after he seized power in Moscow.

The Orange Book, published in 2004, is a collection of political essays by leading Liberal Democrats. Although the writers come from a range of viewpoints, the book has been seen as an attempt by party right wingers to reclaim the party's economic liberal origins in the nineteenth century and give it a new modern emphasis. But for some leading Liberal Democrats these ideas are now closer to tenets of Conservative thought. So will the Orange Bookers bind the coalition ever closer together or lead to fractures and even splits in Liberal Democrat ranks? Edward Stourton talks to one of the leading Orange Book Liberal Democrats, David Laws MP, about the philosophy behind the book and why they were so keen to publish it. He discusses the consequences for the party of the gap which has now emerged between public perceptions of where the party stands on major issues and where its leadership's inclinations lie. And he discusses what the longer-term implications of the Orange Bookers' relationship with David Cameron's Conservatives will be. Among those he talks to are Baroness Williams of Crosby; the former Conservative Shadow Home Secretary, The Rt. Hon. David Davis, MP; the historian and newly-elected Labour MP, Tristram Hunt; the expert on political leadership, Professor Peter Clarke; and the former Liberal Democrat policy director and Orange Book sceptic, Richard Grayson.

Melvyn Bragg presents the second of a two part discussion about the history of the city. George Stephenson invented rail transport in the north-east of England in the 1820s, but it was not until over twenty years later that rail networks began to spring up to ferry workers in and out of the centre of British cities. When they did, this had a vast, transforming effect on the whole nature of cities - taking the pressure off dense, overcrowded central areas, but helping cities like London explode outwards.Victorian London was widely held at the time to be rather chaotic - especially in comparison with the grandiose, highly-orchestrated developments in continental European cities like Paris and Barcelona.The process of transformation was given another fillip by the introduction of the motor car. In this, the final part of a two-part special edition of 'In Our Time' exploring the development of cities, we're going to examine how Stephenson's invention transformed cities almost beyond recognition, and follow the story up to the present day.Peter Hall is Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London; Tristram Hunt is lecturer in History at Queen Mary College at the University of London; and Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics.

Melvyn Bragg presents the second of a two part discussion about the history of the city. George Stephenson invented rail transport in the north-east of England in the 1820s, but it was not until over twenty years later that rail networks began to spring up to ferry workers in and out of the centre of British cities. When they did, this had a vast, transforming effect on the whole nature of cities - taking the pressure off dense, overcrowded central areas, but helping cities like London explode outwards.Victorian London was widely held at the time to be rather chaotic - especially in comparison with the grandiose, highly-orchestrated developments in continental European cities like Paris and Barcelona.The process of transformation was given another fillip by the introduction of the motor car. In this, the final part of a two-part special edition of 'In Our Time' exploring the development of cities, we're going to examine how Stephenson's invention transformed cities almost beyond recognition, and follow the story up to the present day.Peter Hall is Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London; Tristram Hunt is lecturer in History at Queen Mary College at the University of London; and Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics.

Bishopsgate Institute Podcast: The Frock-Coated Communist with Tristram Hunt. Recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute, 21 May 2009

The Great Turning Points in British History, Tristram Hunt discusses the life and legacy of Friedrich Engels, Angus Wainwright gives his thoughts on the Anglo Saxons and Sutton Hoo. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.