Dr Tristram Hunt became Director of the V&A in February 2017. Formerly the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central, he served as the Labour Party’s Shadow Secretary of State for Education. Between 2001-2010, Tristram was a Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London, and a history broadcaster for the BBC and Channel 4. He is the author of several books, most recently Ten Cities That Made an Empire (2014).
