Hunt weighs in on the ideas that shaped Britain's cities across the Victorian era. Looks at the roles and perspectives of Dickens, Engels, Carlyle, William Morris and Ebenezer Howard Tristram Hunt is director of the Victoria & Albert Museum and one of Britain's best-known historians. He served as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2010 to 2017, and between October 2013 and September 2015 as Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He is a senior lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London, and has written numerous series for radio and television. His previous books include The English Civil War: At First Hand, The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels and Ten Cities that Made an Empire, between them published in more than a dozen languages.
