Thu, 14 Mar 2013
Historian and Labour MP Tristram Hunt will be giving a free public lecture at the University of East Anglia on March 22.
Dr Hunt will be looking at Labour leader Ed Miliband’s intention to build a ‘One Nation Britain’ and to what extent this concept has galvanised the party and stimulated thinking.
The talk is the fourth in an annual series of lectures established in memory of former Norwich South MP John Garrett, who died in 2007.
Emeritus Professor John Greenaway from UEA’s School of Political, Social and International Studies said: “Pithy political catch phrases are always important in politics. ‘One Nation’ is a concept historically associated with the Conservative Party and it is fascinating to see how the Labour Party is now seeking to appropriate it in the post-Blair period.”
After working for Tony Blair on the 1997 general election campaign, Mr Hunt became a special adviser to Science Minister Lord Sainsbury. He was elected to serve as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central in 2010.
Dr Hunt is a renowned academic historian whose research has focussed on Victorian civic pride and urban identity. He is also a broadcaster, presenting over fifteen radio and television programmes for the BBC and Channel 4.
Supported by UEA’s School of Political, Social and International Studies and Norwich Labour Party, the lecture will take place at 6.30pm on Friday March 22 in the Thomas Paine Study Centre Lecture Theatre, UEA.
For more details visit www.uea.ac.uk/politics-international-media/events
The talk is the fourth in an annual series of lectures established in memory of former Norwich South MP John Garrett, who died in 2007.
Emeritus Professor John Greenaway from UEA’s School of Political, Social and International Studies said: “Pithy political catch phrases are always important in politics. ‘One Nation’ is a concept historically associated with the Conservative Party and it is fascinating to see how the Labour Party is now seeking to appropriate it in the post-Blair period.”
After working for Tony Blair on the 1997 general election campaign, Mr Hunt became a special adviser to Science Minister Lord Sainsbury. He was elected to serve as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central in 2010.
Dr Hunt is a renowned academic historian whose research has focussed on Victorian civic pride and urban identity. He is also a broadcaster, presenting over fifteen radio and television programmes for the BBC and Channel 4.
Supported by UEA’s School of Political, Social and International Studies and Norwich Labour Party, the lecture will take place at 6.30pm on Friday March 22 in the Thomas Paine Study Centre Lecture Theatre, UEA.
For more details visit www.uea.ac.uk/politics-international-media/events
