John Garrett Memorial Lecture
John Garrett, "the most effective Parliamentary reformer of his generation" (the Independent),
was Member of Parliament for Norwich South from 1974–1983 and 1987–1997. He died in 2007.
This is the fourth in an annual series of lectures established in his memory.
John Garrett Memorial Lecture 2013
Tristram Hunt (Historian and Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent) - One Nation Labour
Friday 22 March 2013 | 6.30pm | Thomas Paine Study Centre Lecture Theatre
FREE entry (no advance booking necessary) | Contact: politicsevents@uea.ac.uk
Tristram Hunt MP
After working for Tony Blair and the Labour Party HQ on the 1997 General Election campaign, Tristram became a Special Adviser to Science Minister Lord Sainsbury (1997-2000). He was elected to serve as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central in the 2010 general election.
He has recently argued that the Labour party's claim to build a One Nation Britain has ‘galvanised the party and stimulated thinking', and provided the ‘most powerful indication yet of the direction Ed [Miliband] is taking the party.'
Tristram Hunt is a renowned historian whose research focussed on Victorian civic pride and urban identity. He is the author of Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City (Phoenix, 2005), The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (Penguin 2009), and The English Civil War At First Hand (Penguin, 2011). He has combined his careers as a politician and a historian with that of a broadcaster, presenting over fifteen radio and television programmes for the BBC and Channel 4. He is Trustee of the History of Parliament Trust, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London.
Supported by the Norwich Labour Party